LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1608, 22 November 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Per Press Association. Auokland, last night.

A child named John Heard died in the Hospital toxday «« the result of being kicked by a horse at Karaka. The patient was in a serious state when admitted on Saturday. The brain was considerably lacerated, and the sufferer had little hope of recovery.

Blenheim, last night. At a conference of local bodies to-day a committee was set up to make arrangements for the representation of Marlborough at the New Zealand Exhibition. It was resolved that each local body be reoommended to authorise the expenditure of a sum up to £lO with a view to the establishment of a Marlborough court. Mr Meikle addressed au open-air meeting to-night in support of his plea to have his name removed from the criminal records, and at the conclusion was cheered. The annual A. and P. show was opened to-day in fine weather. The entries are . about 300 less than last year, there being a falling off in sheep and oattle, but a compensating feature is the large collection of agricultural implements, the manufacturers having rescinded their decision not to exhibit at Blenheim, Sheep were judged to-day. The following are the championships: English Leioesters, ram and ewe, Thos. Hunt, Nelson. Border Leicester ram, J. 0. Ohayton. Lincoln ram and ewe, D. Bishell. Romney Marsh, ram and ewe, William Bell. Shropshire ram, G. and A. Hunt, Nelson ; ewe, Bell and Sons. Half-bred, ram, H. D. Vavasour ; ewe, R. D. Atkinson. A record attendance is expected for People's Day. Dunedin, last night. A meeting of citizens was held this afternoon to consider the best means of extending practical assistance to the sufferers by famine in Japan. The Mayor, Mr Braithwaite, presided. It was resolved that this meeting desires to express its sincere sympathy with the Japanese in the calamity that has overtaken them in the failure of the rice crop, and that with the object of affording the people of Otago an opportunity of giving practical expression to their desire to assist the brave and generous allies of Greae Britain a committee be set up for the purpose of devising and giving effect to the best measures for attaining that object. A committee was accordingly appointed. About £9O has been already collected, and with £lO promised at tbe meeting makes over £IOO. The general opinion appeared to be that the quickest and mast effective relief would be by cabling tbe money collected. Arrangements have been completed for a hospital Saturday on December 2.

A five-roomed house at Waikouaiti, owned by H. Samuel Banes, and occupied by James Green, was completely destroyed by fire to-night. The house was insured for £2OO in the Standard, and the furniture for £250 in the Guardian.

At the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Company, the chairman, Hon. T. Fergus, in moving the adoption of the repoits, said that large importations of oleverly got-up ahoddy and inferior goods from Europe had not deoreased, notwithstanding the duty and charges incidental to importing this inferior material. If it

oame to a question of dead oost, the 0010 niat manufacturer was severely handi-

capped. It would take a very considerable duty—much more than they were likely to get, or any reasonable person would advocate —to equalise things, and as for the prohibition of the importation of these goods, that was entirely out of the question. The only palliative would be to have the goods branded shoddy; also there were too many mills in New Zealand, and none cou'd keep working at the full oapaoity. At the beginning of tbo year the mill was very slack, but later its working copaoity had been fully utilised, and now there were greater orders in hand for remunera-

tive goods than for years past. The Mosgiel Company in soma things stood facile princeps, and feared no competition, acd he was perf'otly content to believe that the tide had turned as far as manufacturers were concerned.

A. 0. Jones writes:—“The New Zealanders will revolutionise Rugby in England, and if they stir things up a bit we shall owe them a debt of grati~ tude.” J. W. Jarman writes:—“l have taken part in representative games in Australia, and good as the Cornstalks combination was it did not reach the level of what I saw in : the Bristol match in general brilliancy. What particularly struck me was the speed of the team.”