NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 873, 24 April 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association',

LIAWERA, iast night. IT.- O. Clarke lias been re-clccted Mayor of Pa-tea unopposed. CHRISTCHURCH, last night.

During the month previous to this, seven moribund cases were sent into the hospital.'" It was decided that a return of such cases he prepared. A discussion look place at the Board meeeing yesterday on the question, members expressing strong disapproval of tlie practice of doctors sending them. .Scarlet fever is still on the increase. Cases have to he refused at Christchurch Hospital every day. In view of this, and the fact that Bottle Lake Hospital will soon he completed, it lias been resolved to advertise for a resident medical officer for the Bottle Lake Infectious Diseases Hospital, at a salary u: £25(1 per annum.

• ■•The North Canterbury branch of the Farmers’ Union yesterday considered a suggestion from the Employers’ Association that the Union drawlip a list of objections la the proposal of compulsory preference to unionists’. A committee was elected to draw up a number of reasons in. opposition to the principle to he brought up at the annual conference. The Executive had previously .signified their antagonism to the system.