NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 996, 15 September 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

.TRINITY COLLEGE. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night, Mr Charles Edwards, examiner of Trinity College, arrived from London by the Sierra, and leaves for Gisborne and Southern towns on Tuesday week. MEAT SHOPS SCHEMEPAHIATUA, last night, Mr Cameron, Produce Commissioner, and Mr Gilruth, Veterinarian, addressed a small meeting of farmers on Saturday night. The meeting carried a resolution in favor of Mr Seddon’s meat shops scheme. BOY THIEVES. PALMERSTON N„ last night. At the 4J.M. Court this morning five small boys, charged with the theft of money from clothes in the dressing rooms at the football ground on Saturday afternoon, was ordered to receive three strokes each with a birch. SUDDEN DEATH OF. A MINER. DUNEDIN, last night. Wm. Brothers Ton, a miner, aged 65, dropped dead while talking to a comrade yesterday. TEACHERS’ SUPERANNUATION INVERCARGILL, last night, The Southland Teachers’ Institute has resolved that it is imperative that a Superannuation Bill should provide retiring allowances based upon sixtieths of the salary, and that the highly desirable conditions of voluntary retirement and amendment to continuous service adopted by the Napier conference should be embodied in the Bill. A resolution was passed protesting against the abolition of franking privileges as placing an undue tax upon teachers, and differentiating them from other branches of the public service. UNIONISTS AT VARIANCE. The Sawmill "Workers’ Union, representing 500 men, passed a resolution strongly deprecating the recent strictures of the Labor Department, expressing confidence in the officers, and high appreciation of the Department’s assistance to workers.