NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1375, 9 February 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) Wanganui, last night.

Messrs Hatrick and Co.’s now steamers having arrived, the WaDganui river service, which connects with the new overland route from Auckland to. Wellington via the Central railway and the Wanganu river, has been ■ increased to tri-weekly. . Dunedin, last night. At the annual meeting of the Westport Coal Company this afternoon, the Chair, man* after referring to the .balance-sheet, said that the profit this year was not so great as last, owing to the decreased output. This decrease was due to several causes. In the first part of the year-the Company was unable to supply the demand, work in one section of the mine having to bo stopped owing to a slip in the roof. When that difficulty was overcome and the Company was able to increase its output trade fell off, partly owing to the railways being supplied from the State inino and partly to the competition from Newcastle and looal mines. The Millerton manager reported having tapped a seam bf new good, hard coal, wbioh will open out a large area hitherto untouched. Wellington, last night. It “is stated that one of the.Niuman Bros., tailors, recently , declared bankrupt, has been traced to Buenos Ayres. Although Lieutenant Colonel .Collins has been asked.to take charge of. the New Zealand team of rifiemen which is selected to compete at Bisley this year, it is doubtful whether he will be able to accept the position, owing to his official duties. It-is estimated that the receipts and expenditure in connection with the Wellington Hospital for the current year are : Receipts from District Board, £17,100 ; recoveries from patients, £2IOO ; rent from endowments; £2600 ; contributions, £200; Government subsidy, £245; revenue from land, £4OO ; recoveries from incurable patients, £4OO ; sundries, £IOO ; total, £23,740 ; expenditure on new boiler, £6OO ; extra sum for upkoep of nursßß’ home, £7OO ; maintenance of chronio invalids’ heme, £2500 ; annual payment on loan, £ISOO ; maintenance of new ward for male patients, £SOO ; amount required to pay liabilities on chronic invalids’ home, £I2OO ; various items of maintenance, £16,940 ; total, £23,740.