LATE NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1386, 22 February 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. Tho Australian! cricketers left for Christchurch to-night. - • W. Cable was to-day elected Chairman of the Harbor Board. Vice Admiral Fanshaw arrived thiß evening on board the Euryalus, attended by the cruisers Challenger and Psyche. Christohurohj last night. The following have been selected to represent Canterbury against the Australians in the match commencing on Friday :—A. Barron, J. Bennett, O. Boxhall, S. T. Callaway, H. Ellis, J. D, Lawrence, K. M. OJlivier, S. Orchard, H. C. Ridley, A. Read, A. Sima (captain.) . . .

Wanganui, last night, » At the Supreme Court to-day Frederick Seymour was sentenced to two years for breaking and entering, and MoAlinder one year’s probation for assault.

Dunedin, last night. In tho annual report of the Dunedin Technical Classes Association, it is suggested that a strong appeal should be made to raise locally £ISOO which, with the Government grant of X2OO, would provide a building equal to the requirements. There was a credit balauce of XlO4 at the end of the year. Since that date the position has improved. The Committee express the opinion that with the exception of the amount required for the buildings the income and oarnings of the Committee are such that the work of the classes can bo easily oarried on, and tho technical school can no w be regarded as a permanent institution..; - The reprssentation.commissioners completed the work of dividing the city into three, under the City Single Electorates Act. It is understood the new constituencies do not vary in population more than 50, but as to how the.city is divided nothing is to be learned.

U-r- — ~ Auckland, last night. A special meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board was held to-night for the purt pose of considering the report of the recent Royal Commission of inquiry into the management of the hospital. Several sec tions of the report were discussed, and the resolutions passed wore to the effect that three resident medical officers be appointed to work under tbe honorary medical staff, and that Dr Hardie Neil, who had been dismissed from the honorary staff, be reinstated.

The business of the Arbitration Courtj whioh opens in Auokland on Monday next promises to be exceptionally heavy.- The first dispute to be heard wiil be that of the engineers, then follow disputes in connection with seamen, shipbuilders, plumbers, ironmoulders, bakers, carpenters, cabmen, butchers, carters, cooks and stewards, saddlers, quarrymon, coaohbuilders and sugar workers. A dispute in. connection with the painting trade will be heard in Gisborne, and a dispute in connection with tho Hikurangi coal miners will be heard at Whangarei. There are 11 compensation cases to be heard under the Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, three of which will b 8 heard in Auokland and the remainder in the country. The hearing of a charge of manslaughter [ against Victor Olliver, a seaman who was oonoerned in a fraoas in the Waitemata billiard saloon on the night of November 9th last, was resumed to-day. He pleaded not guilty to killiog Alfred Mace, who died the morning after bo reoeived injuries in a souffle that followed an argument in the saloon. The jury wero absent nearly four hours. They returned with a verdict of not guilty.