NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1528, 9 August 1905, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association. Auckland, last night.

Tho Union Company’s s.e. Takopuns, with the Southern pint of tho ’Erisoo mail, wont aground about fivo miles from the wharf. Mr Sproule, geneial manager in New Zealand for the Oceanic Steamship Company, who returned to Auckland by ,-tbo Sierra, says tho Oceanio Company, so far from being content with the presont condition of affairs, hope in the near future to make improvements in the service that will bo as great an advaneo upon the present servioo as that is upon that of four years ago.- They contemplate building steamers of 8000 tons to run a fortnightly service. , Mr O. B. S. Gillies, of Co’.beek and Gil-

lies, solicitors, died thiH morning, as the result of a chill, followed by pneumonia. He was a prominent golf and tennis player, and played golf last Wednesday, being then apparently in his usual health. The A.M:P. Society, has purchased JE50,000 of debentures of the Auckland Harbor Board loan ot 41 per cent, interest for 20 years. The transaction is to be re : garded as n Sydney one. Tho Sooicty pays all exchange. Wanganui, last night. In tho Police Court tuis morning a man was fined i6IO for procuring liquor for a prohibited woman. The Magistrate, Mr Stanford, expressed regret that the statute did not provide for such offenders being sent to gaol.

Christchurch, last night. After more than a week’s inlermiitont train tho jwotvther has cleared. In North Canterbury farmo-s aeo anxious for a dry ; spoil to enable them to got on with ploughing. Tbe soil'at- prosoDb is wafer-logged. The Railway Department and Tramway Board not seeing ejo to eye ro the railway crossing at Colombo street, trams are not a’lewed to cross. The Government inspection engineer. it is understood' passed tho tramwoy line, but the Railway Department were not satisfied re points, ond refuse pernrsdon to cross. Tbo section | will be opened as soon ns the difficulty is got over. The new. Liberals express great satisfaction with last night’s meeting. The sum of i£s7 was taken at the door. About JtlO will cover the expenses, and tho remainder !goos to ftho Children’s Cottage Homo Fund. Tho party leave for Wellington to night, ond speak at Wellington Town Hall on Monday, and on the off days make excursions in Iho North Island, speaking at several coutrcs.

Dunodiu, last night. A moating last night decided to form a Society for the Promotion of Indetermimate Sentences and Reform of the Industrial School System. Dr Waddoll was elected president. The Arbitration Court gavo judgment dismissing an application by the Miners’-’ Union against Alloridale Coal Company to 6oforco an industrial agreement-.

A new-chum parson in Australia desired to preach at a shearing shed. The ‘Tomahawkers ” reckoned ho could preach if he could fight “ Bully Burke, the “ringer.” When the parson stripped, and showed a superb muscular development, and when he laid up “Bully ” with a broken arm, a contnsod countenance, and several other fraotureu, the shearers were delighted, and asked him to preach. "Me preach ? ” he snorted. “ I’m Paddy Blank, the professional middleweight pug. I’ve been looking for something like this for cjuite a while. Anybody want to take mo down for mo parson’s rig? ” Nobody did. —Lanoe.