NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1510, 19 July 1905, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

I (Per Press Association.) | New Plymouth, last night. I Mr Hutchison, S.M., cancelled an old A a S° pension certificate on the ground (hat I tho pensioner had not led a sober life. I Auokland. last night. I An old and respected resident of Par--1 noil passed awny.in cho porson of Mr Major I John Gay. Tho late Mr Gay was 68 years lof age. The deceased gentleman, who was I a builder, was for over 40 years closely asI sociated with tli9 parish of Parnell, and for I tho last 18 years has occupied the position I of people’s churchwarden at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Ho was presented at the last annual meeting with an illuminated address and service of plate. No one in Auckland was probably so rich in reminiscences of the great pioneers of the Church of England in Now Zealand and Melanesia, Bishops Selwyn and Patterson, as the late Mr Gay. He was engaged by Bishop Selwyn to build Bishopsoourt, Parnell, and Bishop Patterson took him down to Norfolk Island, where he erected the first building therefor tho MelaDesian mission. He was also closely associated in tho early days with Sir William Martin, In his younger days ho served with the militia through the Maori war, for wbioh he received the Neiv -Zealand war medal.

News from Samoa states that everything is quiet. The Gorman paper says the Governor has [dissolved tho native Govern-. ment at Mulinuu. Faipulo is actively removing from Mulinuu. Mataafa is doing bis utmost to assist the Governor and consign the late rash act of the natives to oblivion. Taxes are being paid promptly, and it can be safely, assumed that the in* cidont which caused so much alarm belongs to the buried past.