NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 542, 11 October 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Associ.il i >ri. WANGANUI, last night. In the Police Court on Saturday Frederick Junes was fined the full penalty of £lO for p.socuring liquor for a prohibited person, the Magistrate, Mr Kettle, remarked that it was no use being lenient, and in future ho would impose full penalties in similar cases. A returned trooper named 12. Michael Sullivan was fined £2O and costs, £1 8s fid, on three changes of assaulting and teat ing the licensee of the Mangamahu Hotel, using obscene language, refusing to quit licensed premises Defendant gave an order on the Defence Department where £53 lies (o his credit. The Magistrate offered to recommend the Government that half the fine be remitted, provided the police reported that defendant was behaving himself, hut defendant said ho would quit the country, and the money could be given to charity. He could work for more. STRATFORD, last night. Mr Symes left for Patea this morning to open the election campaign. Mr Ilazelden is in Stratford, and will commence at this end. The Court for settlement of claims for compensation for land taken n.. the Stratford-Toko railway sits here on Monday, before Judge Conolly. It is understood that work will he resumed on the Stratford-Whangamo-mona line immediatelv. FKILDING, last, night. Large, numbers oi' eases of measles and influenza are reported here. One hundred children are absent from school. It, is believed that, returned troopers introduced the diseases. OAMARU, last night. A. Ueskilli, railway station master, at Kurow, died last night somewhat suddenly. * WELLINGTON, last night. Captain Carter, of the Admiralty’s collier Mercedes, was fined £25 and costs in the Magistrates Court to-day for leaving foui seamen in Hongkong who should have been discharged in the colony. The captain has also undertaken to pay the cost oi bringing the men back and their wages to date. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The tailors dispute was before the Arbitration Court this- morning. Tnc demands - of the Union are : 45 hours for a week’s work, overtime and aquarter and double time. ,apprentices to be indentured for five years, and the proportion to he tme to four apprentices, wages to run from 5s to 20s, minimum wages tailors £3, pressers £2 15s, female workers £1 12s (Id, seamsters to be abolished. The dispute was adjourned until experts have reported on the log. A" award was given in the freezers’ dispute. Tlie minimum wage was one shilling per hour, casual labor Is Id, delay in starting work to he avoided as much as possible ; contractors io pay - the minimum wage, cooling time !p i e allowed : preference to lie given to unionists; the award to continue in foice until October 20th. GREYMOUTH, last night. At a meeting of the Harbor Board, Mr Oldness was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks for his services in Parliament. If is almost certain that lie will have a “ walk-over ” at the next election. There are now about, seventy men employed on the railway connecting Greyinouth with the State coal mine, while a fairly strong party are engaged in opening the mine itself. A good deal of excitement has been caused in town by the discovery of a rich gold-bearing reef at Garden Gullv, about twenty miles from Greymouth. The reef has been cut for a distance of eight feet further,, and the wall is not yet showing. Gold shows very freely in the stone.The timber trade is again verv brisk. Several large orders have teen obtained within the last few days. The Harbor Board tug being laid up, to get new machinery and a toiler in, tho Silver Cloud, with a large ca go of ironb-ark, sailed in over the bar and alogside the wharf, with the greatest TIMARU, last night. At a meeting of the Board of Education to-day, a country school committee resigned as a protest against the action cf the Board in uphjol ling the conduct of a school mistress fur the alleged excessive puoishment of little children. The resignation was accepted, and a new committee is tu ho elected. . , , DUNEDIN, last nignf. Mr Scott, Literal candidate fur 15nice, opened the campaign at Milton last night. lie declared himself an out-and-out supporter of the Governmerit. He said that objections had been taken to his candidature because Catholics would not support State r.,d to denominational schools until the question had been decided by a refwendum. A vote of thanks was unanimously passed, the mover saying lnan it was premature to ask for confidence at present.