LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1586, 17 October 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

[(Per Press Association..) Wellington, last night. At the last meeting of the Advisory .vi) Board of the New Zealand Farmers’ - - Union the questions to be submitted to candidates at the ooming election were decided upon, and will bo circulated to the branches in a few days. ; Mr Yores, who is contesting the Hntt as an Independent, addressed a meeting at Lower Hutt to*night. He denounced the Government for corruption, and dedared his adherence to the New Liberals. At meetings hold by Mr Yerex in remote parts of the elootorato resolutions of confix deDoe in the sitting member, Mr Wilford, have boon passed. To-night no vote could be taken owiDg to the uproar. Chrißtchnrch, last night. The statement of the twenty-fourth , week egg laying competition at Lincoln College shows the number of eggs laid to be 988, an average per pen of 23. Tbe highest for the week was A. Tyree, black Orpingtons, 36 ; J. Mann, white Wyan« dottes, 85 ; H. Hawke, silver Wyandolles,, 35; 0. Peterson, black Orpingtons, 33;' H. Pannoll, black Orpingtons, 32; H. Walden, brown Leghorns, 32 ; Alexandra Poultry Company, white Plymouth Rocks, 31; W. B. Cowlishao, black OrpiDgtons, 31; Mrs Symonds, buff Orpingtons, 31, Highest for whole time: H. Hawke 667, Mann 552, Piice 514, Evans 500, Shaw 499, Wilder 495, Brieted 483, Mrs Stud* holme 476, Tyree 461, Cox 446, and Boyds 446.