NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1813, 20 July 1906, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

I’CUSS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, Inst nigh*. Tho Royal Oak tributers crushed two lons of oro and 3001 b of picked stone for lSOoz of gold, valued, at £BSOO. Of tbo Cormthic’s immigrants thirty-eight proceed immediately lto tho Nortliorn Trunk railway works. Many of tiro immigrants expressed a desire for farm work, with a view to lator talcing up land themselves. Wanganui, last night. Al child named Frederick Dobson, agod four years, son of a ganger on tho line, was drowned in Kaioi stream yesterday, Tim littlo ono was playing with another child at ;noon, and being missed shortly after search was made. Tho body was found this morning, half a mile from tho scone of tho acc'dent. Stratford, last night. A conference of delegates from the Taranaki dairy companies, convened by the National Dairy Association, was held hero to-day, to consider.a resolution passed by the Association tint it is desirable to havo a representative of the dairy companies in tho Homo market. J. W. Foreman, President of the Dairy Association, presided, aud 30 companies sent delegates. After a long discussion tho meeting affirmed tho dosirability of having a represontativo in England.

Blor.hoim, last night. The needs of Marlborough wore formally placed before Colonel Pitt by a deputation at Picton last night, and at Blenheim this morning. The questions raised by both deputations wore the nood of moro rolling stock on tho railway. Colonol Pitt said the Department considered the present stock sufficient if properly worked ; however, two now carriages and some trucks were being built. Tho Picton deputation wa3 assured that tho Railway Department had prepared plans for a new wharf to cost £-10,000, to run along tho western foreshore to tho freezing works. Sir Josaph_ Ward’s return was awaited by Cabinet, before the plan was decided upoD, Colonel Pitt and Mr Mills assured a Blenheim deputation that they would do their best to have a veto placed on tho next estimates. Tho Department recognised tho present wharf was out of date and inadequate. The question of closer settlement up tho Waiau valley was urged by the Mayor of Picton, counselling its acquisition before railway extension. Colonol Pitt agreed to this principle, but pointed out that Marlborough had got a good share of land settlement money in the past. A vexed Question, the subject of tho perennial controversy, the location of the railway traffic manager, was a principal matter with each deputation. Tho Minister said the department was the best judge of the method, but agreed that the time had arrived when the duties of harbormaster and railway manager should be separated. He would submit tho matter to Sir Joseph Ward ou his return. Requests also for a new traffic bridge over the Wairau river at Spring Creek, the old one being condemned and an Opawa road bridge alongside the present combined road and railway site, at the end of Grove road, were made. The Minister did not commit the Government. The Hon 3. Pitt and Mills were ontertained at luncheon at 1 o’clock. At 3 o’clock the ceromonv of opening the new Blenheim railway station and the local school were performed,

Ashburton, last night. Mr John McLachlan, M.H.R., has tendered Mr Hugo Fredlander aq ample written apology for the remarks made about him at a public meeting at tho railway station on Juno 13th. Mr Fredlander has accepted tho apology, and tho action for slander lias boen discontinued.

Invercargill, last night. At tho Police Court the hearing of a ohargo of keeping beer for sale against three men is proceeding The evidenco showed they obtained -15 gallons iu eleven days, and that they had given false names.

Christchurch, last night. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Florence Jane Manlove, alias Udale, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of bigamy. In February, 1807, sho married C. K. Manlove at Dunedin, and in April, 1809, was married at Christchurch to James Udale.

Dunedin, last night. The police at Lawrence telograph that Lizsie Paterson, aged 21, missing since Tuesday, was found dead this morning in the cemetery, with a bottle half full of carbolic acid beside her.