AUCKLAND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1404, 15 March 1905, Page 1

AUCKLAND NEWS.

JPer Press Association.) Auckland, last night. While depressed through.an attack if paralysis, David Buohanan, monumental mason, aged 27, shot himself through the heart this morning at a boarding-house in Eden Terrace.

At a largely-attended meeting of oity I and suburban shopkeepers the following I resolution was passed :—“ That in the opinion of this meeting is is desirable that I section 3 of the present Act be repealed, I and that in lieu thereof there should be substituted seotion 22 as it- stood in the draft of tho 3hops and [Offices Bill, 1904, i intrrduond by the Premier. Providing for the fixing of the evening hour of olosiDg on working days in all distriots in accordance with tho wishes of a thre'o-filf s majority of occupiers of shops, the word! occupiers to have the interpretatiou given in seotion 21, sub-seotion 5, of the present Act.”

The Premier conferred to day -with a shopkeepers’ deputation, which made sugI gestions for amendmeots in tho Shops Act. He said thero would certainly be amend, ments made in the Act. Tho Bill would be ono of the earliest submitted. He would oonsult southern shopkeepers as to the hours desired and would endeavor to adopt regulations most suit-ablo for tho whole colony.