NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 942, 15 July 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

GENEROUS MAO RILAND

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night. The receipts to date of the North Queensland Cyclone Fund are a little over £SOO. . Christchurch contributed £146, Wellington. £126, Waiapu £l2O, Dunedin £lO9, and Auckland so far only £6O. Owing- to the Bishop’s accident and the tardiness in remitting from out-distriets, Canon Haselden takes up the Bishop’s lecturing work, in the absence of Dr Frodsham, ,wlio has returned to Australia. JOURNALIST INSTITUTE. WELLINGTON, last night. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Journalist Institute' yesterday, it was decided that the headquarters for the ensuing year should be iii Auckland. The. following officers were President, Mr W Berry, sen. ; vice-presidents, Messrs C. W. Earle, A. H. Bristed, J. Hutchison ; general secretary, Mr John Birch ; treasurer, Mr Alex. Lowrie. It was resolved that the Council shall in future consist of a president and retiring president, vice-presi-dents, general secretary, treasurer, and the chairmen of branches, a q.uo 7 rum to consist of five members. A motion for'establishing an employment committee in Wellington was lost. ■ LOYALTY TO THEIR MASTER. NAPIER, iastu night, ’At a large meeting of parents of past and present boys of the Wanganui' College, a resolution was unanimously adopted, expressing the deepest sympathy with M?' Empsonf the headmaster, 4 in the great trouble he' had recently experienced, and unabated confidence in him and in the school. A similar resolution .was unanimously carried at a large meeting of old boys. A QUACK. WANGANUI, last night. W. A. Bryant, who stated he was a magnetic healer "and clairvoyant, and has been practising in Welling ton for three months, was fined £5 on each of two charges of palmistry and fortune-telling at the Police Court this morning.