LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1429, 13 April 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The Mokoia has sailed for North*'-' via East Coast. Passengers for V, Giehorne :—Mrs Delang and Mr. Murray. The Gorinthic has also sailed for Gisborne. x }

There was a fair attendance at Addington sales to-day, and the entries were good in most departments..' MASTERTON, last night.;' Hindoo. Sppil, and Rungarawa. have been scratched for all engagements at Ivlastertora autumn, meeting,, and Maniapoto for the Telegraph (Second Handicap. NELSON, last nightTbe first chicken laying under the auspices of the Nelson Poultry Association was opened to-day, and isi highly successful, the Orpingtons,, Wyandots and Leghorns classes being .the strongest, wfiile game are alB good. Informations have been laid, against two Chinamen for unlawfully having opium in .their possession. DUNEDIN, last night. At Balclutha to-day a man named Gavin Brownlie was fined -,4>1 for being found on the premises of the Criterion Hotel for the purposes o£ illegally dealing in liqluor. •Accused was in the house when a re-

cent raid was made, A charge against ' a Balclutha resident of ’ procuring liquor from . the Stirling Hotel without giving the name and address of the person for whom i’Q was intended, was dismissed. Accused took an order from one iVescyi ;(Wha had been before the Court foe sly-grog selling), stating that the liquor was for the howling dub, and the barman of the hotel sent in. notice ta the Clerk of the Court that the liquon was tar the bowling,,'*' green or, club..

Wellington, last nigbi. A poll of ratepayers of Wellington was - taken to-day on the proposal of the City Council to borrow £249,500 for an iinproved water scheme, tho erection of anew refuse destructor, the acquirement of public lighting msiDS, etc., from the electrical syndicate, extension of tho publio library, and construction of the Eelburne Park. fIF " Votes were taken on proposal separately, with tho result that tho money was authorised for water supply, destructor and lighting. This involves £235,000. Tho. other two proposals were rejected." isk