LATE HEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1641, 6 January 1906, Page 3

LATE HEW ZEALAND.

.{Per Pxess Association.) Christchurch, Inst night. Tbo Hon. T. Y. Dnncin, Minister of Linds, start) on an official visit to tho tVest Const to-morrow. Tho visit will Inst for about a month. Steps nro to bo taken locally, it ia understood, to secure a fuller comp'isnoo with tho provisions of tho Public Health Aot in regard to tbo vaooinatiou of obildioo. Wanganui, last night Police r, turns show that thoro was a diminution of orimo in Wanganui in 1905 as oompirod with 1934. There wore do eorious oases ia 1905. There wore 185 charges of druokooueas, ds against 293 ib 1904. > ' Dunedin, last night. Sir J. G. Watcl intimatod to-day to tho Chairman of tho Chamber of Commoreo that ho oould not soo his way to authorise individual receipts on tolegraph forms. He was ioolinad to authorise tho issuing of (telegraph forms in books with rcoeipSs attached, these requiring suoh forms to pay for tho cost of the book?.

Auckland, last night. The Auokland tramway returns for Jho past year show that nearly 20 million passengers wore carried, an increase of l.j millions on 1904. It is understood that tbo recount of tho i Manukau local option poll increased tho no-lioenso total by 92 votes. Dunedin, last night. The unidontifiod body with tho throat I cut found in the oioek of Waikato is now I supposed to be that of a vagrant well known to the police. The man in quos* tioa frequented tbo loea'ity, and wore clothing similar to that founl on the body. The first sal) on tho Stock Exchange sinoe the holidays took place to-day, when Alpine Consols sold at 9s.