NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 914, 12 June 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association^ MARTON, last night. The Manawatu Licensing Committee met yesterday, and granted all applications for renewals. Six additional rooms are to be added to both hotels at Shannon.

NELSON, last night. The Provincial Council of the. Farmers’ Union was held at Richmond yesterday, Mr T. Mume (Tabaka) presiding. Resolutions were carried to co-operate in. urging the Government to push on the road to Jlanmer Springs, and to ask for better railway station accommodation on the Nelson line, to secure the early opening of all Crown lands available in the district, whether surveyed or not, to urge the Government to amend the Noxious Weeds Act by repealing landowners’ liability to clear on public roads adjoining their properties when the weeds did not spread from their land, supporting Palmerston North in a protest against further taxation on land and seeking a reduction of duties on the necessaries of life, endorsing Auckland's action re the sheep tax (reduction to one shilling a hundred), that all Customs duties he levied for revenue only, opposing fresh legislation to employ unionists as against non-unionists, and that in the appointment of stock inspectors, preference he given to qualified veterinary surgeons. Mr Turner was elected President. Mr Chisnail vice-president. Mr Haycock auditor, and Mr Chisnail delegate to the Colonial Conference. At the Collingwood Court to-day, a miner employed in the Puntponga coal mine was fined ten pounds for sly-grog selling, on two cahrges ; in default] twenty-eight days' imprisonment. The police stated that the trade was carried on in a large way. Accused was evidently befriended by some one at his hack, a large quantity of beer witli a Nelson label was found on the premises. The mine manager discharged accused in consequence of the action. DUNEDIN, last night.

A cable was received in the colony via the Pacific line from New York yesterday in the record lime of eight minutes. The City Licensing Committee today further considered ten out of the remaining twenty-two licenses, and then adjourned their decision until the afternoon. Mr James Mills, managing director of"the Union Steamship Company, is to leave for London by the outgoing San Francisco steamer, in connection with the Company’s business.