MEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1570, 28 September 1905, Page 4

MEW ZEALAND.

Pec Press 'Association. Wellington, last night.

Mr Stead’s horses returned from Australia by the Moeraki, also Maohine Gun and Acrasia, winner of the last Melbourne Cup. All arrived in good condition.

Blonhoim, last night.

Word has been received that a man named John Lane was killed at the co-operativo railway works at Seddon to»day by a fall of earth. Lane was a married man, with children. Westport, last night Shipping movements are at a standstill at West Coast ports, owing to mountainous seas breaking on the bars. The equinoctial gales are severe.

Wanganui, last night. The Wanganui Regatta Association has fixed December 27, the middle of Carnival Week, for the next regatta. The local rowing centre intends to move at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rowing Association to have this year’s championships rowed at Wanganui Carnival regatta, The weather has been very wet recently and heavy rain and hail fell last night and this morning. By midday the weather had improved, and the prospects are brighter for the races, which commence to-morrow. Hokitika, last night. The West Coast band contest has been fixed here for May 1 and 2 of next year. The total prize list is £165. For the test selection £9O is given in three prizes, and £4O in three prizes for the test march. Gold and silver medals will be given for solos, etc. A strong executive has been .appointed to carry out the function. Townspeople responded very liberally to the request for a guarantee, upwards of £2OO being promised. Dunedin, last night.

Messrs William McCarty, member of the Natal Legislature, and J. A. Anderson, managing director of the Transvaal Iron and Steel Company, have visited Dunedin for the purpose of inspecting the rolling mills once at Onehunga and now at Burnside, and have made a straight-out purchase of the whole property, which will be shipped immediately to Zurrfontein, 18 miles from Johannesburg. Mr Anderson has left for America to make further purchases to complete his up-to-date plant, and it is believed the setting up of these works will be the birth of the iron and steel industry in South Africa. Robert Mathie was brought before the Police Court this morning on remand as a lunatic at large. This was the man who recently imagined the City hotel where he was living was on fire, and broke an indicator. The police [reported that he was now all right. While . accused might have been drinking, he was a victim of the drug habit. After admonishing Mathie, who is a young man, and telling him he had had a narrow escape of being sent to a lunatic asylum, the Magistrate discharged him. The weather is most unseasonable. A glorious morning was followed by a sudden change and a heavy hailstorm.