NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1410, 22 March 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) Napier, last night. Reports presented to the Harbor Board

at to-day’s meeting show that last week’s storm did damage to various works, necessitating an expenditure off£7oo. At the breakwater proper, however, the damage was only a trifle over £2OO, and this was to now concrete work which had not had time to properly set,'

Dunedin, last night. The receiving clerk for Keith Ramsay and Co. to-day found three hearth rags and door-mats woighted with 6ft of tramway material under tbe Rattray street wharf, in the vioiDity of the Q shed. These are believed to be associated with the police scandal, now under , investigation. ? Wellington, laßt night. The Government have decided to guar-

antoe a one penny net return per pound on shipments of apples to London this Grading and .shipping : must be done under supervision of the Agricultural Department. All other arrangements are to be made by shippers. 'Shrubb and Duffey; and the' Australian visitors received a public welcome from the Mayor this morning on their arrival from the South. 'l f •;:

•Mr J.-G. Btevens announces, himself‘as a candidate for the bye-election- in the Liberal and Labor .'interests.- - He -is a prominent member of- : the Working -Men’s Club-: '-• - - f-i --

| The-biennial communication of the Grand Lodge of- Independent- Order of • Oddfellows -of- New- Zealand, ' AmericanConstitution, opened this morning. “ The 1 secretary’s annual' report- stated that the--funds had increased-during-the year by £1294. One new lodge has been opened since last report, making 41, with a total membership of 3227, a gain during-the-year of 215. "The total- at the end-of-1904 1 were-£32,404;”*- s-v.

. . . ; Wanganui, last night. At tbe 'Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting this morning, the election of New Zealand officers resulted :—President, Mrs Aitkinson (Wellington) ;‘corresponding secretary, Miss Ml Powell f'recording secretary ; MisV. Bell' (Dunedin) ; treasurer, Mrs Hill (Napier) ; vice-presi-dent at large, Mrs Schnachenborg (Auckland) ; editor,and business manager of the. Whiteribbon paper, Miss L. Smith, It waß decided to accept an invitation sent by the Christchurch District. Union to hold the 1906 Convention in that,city.