NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 949, 23 July 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

AUCKLAND NEWS-: .Per Press Association* AUCKLAND, last night. In the Police Court Prank Mason, charged ! with obtaining £6O by false pretences, .was remanded to Christchurch'. •• The Auckland land agents unanimously passed a resolution disapproving of the Land Agents Bill, • and suggesting various amendments. Swift, an ex-member of the Victorian railway service, is in Auckland, on a mission respecting which hew ill not say much more than that-he is to meet the railway employees here and elsewhere, and put before them the facts of the 1 late strike. -He states that had the strikers known how, the .Governmene 1 would; deal -.With* them,- they would never have surrendered. The men who- - had been taken back into employment •had not’ since been, fairly -treated. Many were dismissed for the most trivial causes. A cross look- at a ** 'loyalist ” was sufficient -to secure dismissal without warning. The Government had not kept its- word in regard to men entitled to compensation who' had been in their employ more than twenty, years. .The leaders sacrificed their own interests to secure privileges for the. rank and file of ■'strikers, 'and would have been content if they;'were successful, -but they had not been so, the Government' having broken faith on that point and treated the men unfairly on many others. Swift said that it was unwise to say more to the Press for fear of prejudicing the Cause of the men before Parliament. HOPE FOR CONSUMPTIVES. WELLINGTON, last night. The Chief Health Officer reports officially that the Sanatorium for Consumptives, near Cambridge, Auckland, is proving very successful. The patients are doing excellently, and some have made such improvement that they will soon be able to leave the sanatorium. TENNIS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, last night. At a special meeting of the New. Zealand Tennis Association last evening, Mr Goldie was elected secretary. It was decided that the Association be reorganised, with headquarters at Wellington, and that the Associations affiliated appoint permanent delegates resident in Wellington to represent them. * NO ONE TO BLAME ! CHRISTCHURCH, last nightj At the i inquest on the body of John Baretta,- killed by the Sumner tram on Monday night, a verdict of ■ accidental death was returned, no blame being attributable to anyone. WELCOME SOCIAL. DUNEDIN, last night. The Rev, Frank Nicol, appointed in England to the charge of the Ravensbourne Congregational Church was welcomed at a social meeting, held in Moray, Place Church, last night. POULTRY SHOW. HOKITIKA, last night. The ninth annual exhibition of the Hokitika Poultry Society opened today. There is fine weather. The show of poultry and pigeons is equal to previous years. The result promises to be highly, satisfactory.