NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1656, 24 January 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) Auokland, last nigbt Mr James Stewart, C.E., arbitrator in a dispute between G. E. Tuck and the Auckland Harbor Board in connection with a dredging contract in 1902, has awarded Tuck 17s 4d out of £2829 10s Id claimed, the Harbor Board to pay £235 12s 6d costs. Inghwood, last night. A young man named Conrad was throwing a treeyosterday with a mate, when just as the tree was falling a gust of wind caught it and turned it out of its course, when the butt slipped back across the stump and struck Conrad in the front of the shoulder, practically severing it from his body. It also fractured an arm and several ribs. He was brought into town, about 12 miles, to catch tho mail train for New Plymouth, but expired as he was being put in the van. .He leaves a widow.

Ashburton, laßt night. Shortly after 1 o’clock this morning a severe thunderstorm, accompanied by hail, passed over the district in a narrow track from the - hills to the sea. In its course the storm was very destructive, root, cereal, and fruit crops, flowers and vegetables being ruined by tho hailstones which were up to 1J inches in length, and three-quarters of an inch thick. Several business premises had goods damaged through the gutters at the intersections of roofs not boing able to carry off tho water. Several windows were broken by hailstones, also glass verandahs and conservatories. The weather to-day is cold and wet.

Dunedin, lost night. The condition of Mr T. S. Culling, of E. Willson and Company, causes great anxiety to his friends. The result of the ballot of the New Zealand Employers’ Association regarding the Labor Conference is incomplete. So far the votes cast for a conference are : Canterbury, Napier, and Masterton, and against Otago, Southland, Wanganui, Auckland, and Wellington. Isabella Glenn, of the late Hotel Metropole at St. Clair, now a private boarding establishment, was lined £35 and costs for sly-grog selling. Eobert Breen, secretary of the Workers’ Carnival, and Wm. Henry Tuttley, President of the Trades and Labor Council, were prosecuted for holding an art union in connection with the recent Workers’ Carnival. Mr Barclay, in the defence, admitted that either from carelessness or want of knowledge the. promoters included as prizes a number of things neither works of art nor literature. Mr Widdowson said as the art union was not for the benefit of a few private individuals he would' inilict a minimum penalty of 10s and costs.