NEW ZEALAND.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, last night
The Veterans’ Home bazaar has concluded. The takings totalled £2309, and there is expected to be £IBOO dear profit.
The New Zealand and River Plate Company pay a dividend of 7 per cent, for the year, including an interim dividend, and carry £17,470 to reserve and £Bl4 forward. The net balance of profit and loss is approximately £36,230. The directors will recommend that £2531 premium and new shares be paid to the reserve fund.
Mr Wyatt, Navy League Commissioner, who is visiting the Empire’s seaports with a view to reorganising and establishing branches of the League, arrived by the Zealandia, and was welcomed by the local League. lie will address meetings here and in other parts of the colony CHRISTCHURCH, last night.
Mr Scddon this morning received a telegram from Professor Klatz, at Wellington Observatory, stating that he had successfully connected the chain of longitude, carried by Canada and Greenwich to Australia. The Australasian colonies were thereby bound with the Mother Country astronomically. The Premier proposes to visit the Chat-hams early next year. The Governor will probably accompany him. He leaves for Dunedin tomorrow morning.
TIMARU, last night
The Government steamer Ilinemoa arrived here last night with a cargo of timber for the new lighthouse to be erected a few miles south of Timaru.
DUNEDIN, last night.
The two-year-old son of Charles Maddock was drowned at Cromwell at mid-day on Saturday in a barrel of water. The accident happened .while his mother’s hack was turned.
WESTPORT, last night
Some wreckage has been washed ashore at Karamea. It includes a portion of the top of a skylight, and several tins of tobacco, with labels uninjured.
ASHBURTON, last night.
Cato Copper; an ex-Burnham ‘boy, was charged before Justices with committing a criminal assault on a servant girl named King at Mayfield on December 3. He was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court at Timaru.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1079, 22 December 1903, Page 1
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