NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1763, 1 June 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

(Pan Preua Association.) Wairop, yeeteiday. _ It Las been decided to form an Agricultural and Pastoral Society hero. A show will bo held on Wairoa racecourse tho samo week as the races.

A long spell of fine weather has broken and steady rain is falling.

Napier, last night

The Chamber of Commerce, in view of the projected tariff revision, resolved to ask the Minister for Customs to give reasonable notice of the reductions to be effected so that trades may be allowed time to dispose of their stocks in warehouses before the reductions come into force. It is pointed out that this was not done when the tariff was last reviewed, with the result that traders suffered a heavy loss. The co-operation of other Chambers is to be invited.

The trawler Winona, which went ashore last evening in a heavy fog, is still on the bea h, being firmly embedded in the shingle. Another effort will be made at high tide to shift her. Ihe vessel is, insurod in the South British for £325

Dunedin, last night

Edgar Ernest Turner, commercial traveller, sued his late employers, O’Brien and Co., of Christchurch, for £650 damages for breach of contract, and £22 for commission. Plaintiff did not appear, and defendant, not admitting the claim, and pleading that plaintiff was dismismd for misconduct, his Conor dismissed the action with costs ou tho highes-, scale.

Inveroargiil, last night

Tho census for Greater Invercargill shows a population of 12,506, an increase of 1866 in five years. This places Invercargill beforo Palmerston Not th and Wanganui, and constitutes it the fifth city in the col >ny. At Winton Mrs Welsh, aged 43, tho wife of James Welsh, dairyman, was found drowned in a well this morning. She left a note asking the neighbors to be kind to her two children. Her husband sailed for Englaud a fortnight ago.