NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1028, 22 October 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association.

AUCKLAND, last night. A private cable, received by Mr Bert Royle, states that by a fire iu the theatre in Durban tho Pollard Company were burnt out, At the inquest on Elizabeth Squirrel, a very old woman, the medical evidence showed that death was duo to starvation, due to want of attention or refusal to take food,

NEW PLYMOUTH, last night, Tanner’s Ark, the strange craft in which Felix Tanner proposed to circumnavigate the globe, sank at her moorings in the harbor last night. WANGANUI, last night. The Wanganui Collegiate School Old Boys’ Association decided, with the consent of the College authorities to erect a brass memorial tablet iu the College chapel to tho memory of the late Rev. J. M. Marshall. At a meeting of representatives of school committees this morning it was decided to form a School Committees’ Association to further the interests of sohool committees generally. WELLINGTON, last night.

The Telegraph Department are advised that direct working between Southport, the terminus of the Pacific cable in Australia, and Sydney began yesterday, and has proved very satisfactory. A second circuit has been set |up for Queensland traffic. This change means a further shortening of the time for intercolonial traffic. NELSON, last night.

Two hundred applications for enrolment in the N olson Technical School have been received, and the Government are being urged to make a grant to enable a gift of land from the city Council for a school building to he utilised at once.

Owing to the lack of funds the town Schools Committee owe £4O, and has only enough to pay the bank for keeping its account, and asks the Education Board to advance money due to cleaners and sweepers. Even a requisition for brooms cannot be met, and will be forwarded to the Board.

DUNEDIN, last night.

The Shop of Sneddon, grocer, at Mornington, was entered last evening, and the safe taken out and moved 150yds away and dynamited. Some £25 was secured, No arrests have been made.