NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 718, 14 January 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

. (Per Press Association.) . MASTERTON, last •night. ;’At :'si meeting of the Brass Band j contest committee a was received from the secretary ol the North Island Brass Bands Association, expressing the opinion that Mr Ord Hume; would be able to get ill rough the work of judging in four days and asking that the,.contcsl should not he started till Tuesday„ February 3rd. A resolution was passed that the local Committee could not alter the decision to commence on Monday, February 2nd, asut was now 100 late for any alteration to be. lUildC ' BLENHEIM, last-night. William Nosworthy, town clerk of Blenheim for many . years, has been missing since last evening. -Sep.oh . parties ol citizens are out nf.all directions < Considerable anxiety, exists. ' ASHBURTON, last inghtThe Minister of Public Works; interviewed- by, v the manager of the Mount -Somers Coal Company,,prom-ised-:'to-visit the Mount,Somers Seal fields at an early, date with the object- of enquiring into the feasibility .of connecting the mines, with the present railway • system. Only nine miles of line are needed to. make the connection Extensive deposits of coal will be available for market. ' . OAMARU, last night. • Mr W. C. Douall, manager of the local branch of the National Bank, who is going to Sydney on six months: leave to undergo an operation to his throat, was - to-day presented with a purse of .IT! sovereigns.