LATE GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 998, 17 September 1903, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 1.8 a.m., Sept.; 17. SYDNEY, Sept 18. Arrived! 5.30, Warrimoo ; sailed, 2.30, Talune.

The Croki is breaking up, and has been abandoned to the underwriters.

BOXING ASSOCIATION. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night, The Council of the New Zealand Boxing Association at a meeting tonight empowered the secretary, Mr W. G. Alack, to represent, the Association at a confer'.'nce of governing bodies at Sydney. The Council expressed itself opposed to any proposal for federation between New Zealand and Australian Associations. FARMERS’ UNION.

The North Canterbury Executive of the Farmers’ Union decided today to move strenuously in the direction of getting correct grain returns for Canterbury, and agreed to send printed forms to threshing-mill owners to facilitate the registering; of tallies. The question of revaluation of Crown tenants’ land prior to granting of freehold was brought up but was held over, pending the receipt of reports of the proceedings of the Colonial Council. FUNERAL OF A PROMINENT. MASON.

-Tile remains of the late Mr Henry Thomson were interred in the Linwood cemetery this afternoon, in the presence of a large gathering. Mr Thomson was the first Grand Master of Masons under the New Zealand Constitution, and Masons gathered in large -numbers to pay last honors to one who had taken so high a place among them. The Grand Master came from Wellington and there were craftsmn from other parts of the colony.