LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1681, 23 February 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.,) Dunedin, last night. At a meeting of the Harbor Board to-* day a letter was received from the Dock Trust, stating that it would be an advantage to have two feet more water on the site of the new dock and other alterations, but the Trust had no funds available. If the Board would guarantee the interest on the cost of alterations, say £4OOO, the Trust wonld enter into negotiations with the contractor to perform the work. The question of the legality of the Trust proceeding with the dook with less depth than 25 feet provided in the Act was raised, and it. was .deoided to refer the matter to the Board’s solicitor for an opinion, The number of pupils desiring to enter Trinity College is beyond the accommodation available. There a v e pupil teaohers from Invercargill to Gisborne, and in addition 30 students desired to enter. As there is only room for five, the Board selected the five by placing the names in a hat and giving the ohoioe to the names first drawnt The Methodist Conference of New Zealand held its first meeting this evening in Trinity Methodist Ohurob. There was a large attendance of representatives, clerical and lay. The R3V. J. Newman Buttle presided, and delivered the presidential address. He said there had been no burning questions during the year. He then read at.length the events of ths year, and indicated that the question of an independent self-governing conference for New Zealand would be the most important matter to come up, The president having been thanked for his address, the election of a new president was taken, and the Rev. T. G. Brooke, of MorningtoD, was elected on the first ballot by 72 out of 115. The: Revi O. H. Laws was re elected secretary.

Now Plymouth, last night

A lad named Cartwright was drowned in a dam at Turiki this afternoon whilst bathing with his brother and a companion. In consequence of the publicity .given to the excessive mortality amongst calves after being inoculated by] Government officials fer blackleg, instructions have been issued by the Veterinary D'pa v tmrnt to suspend, all inoculation pending further instructions. Tbe outbreak is serious in so far particularly as tbo disease has been communicated to areas hitherto immune