NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1826, 6 August 1906, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

I’RESS ASSOCIATION Hastings, Saturday. Following are the cup winners at the Poultry Show : White loghorns, Holiand, Bunnythorpe ; audalusians, France, Wellington ; minorcas, Manton, Palmerston North ; black Orpingtons, Bowman, Blonheim ; langshans, Holland; buff orpingtons, cockerel, Leighton, Wellington ; -working homers, Alexander, Hastings ; fancy pigeon, Goodaero, Now Plymouth; game bantam champion, A. E. Thompson, Auckland, Palmerston North, Saturday. John Jarvis Gillies was charged at the S.M. Court on remand with having caused the recent explosion at Bunnythorpe dried milk faotorv. He was further remanded on the application of the prosecution till Thursday noxt, bail as before being allowed. Blenheim, Saturday. The Blenheim Borough Council, which has occupied two rooms in the Government buildings since the prosent structure was erected after the fire in 1876, and before that had accommodation in the original Provincial Government buildings by virtue of the said buildings being erected on land vested by tho lato Mr Fell in the Superintendent, in trust as sites for public buildings and for other purposes of public utility when the town was first laid out in 1857, recently received threo months’ notice from the Public Works Department to quit. The period expires next Thursday. Last evening, acting on legal advice, the Council unanimously decided to contest its right to the chambers if necessary in the Supreme Cogrt, instructed local solicitors accordingly. During the last year or two. Ministers have been frequently interviewed on the subject. The Council relies upon the argument that as th 6 old Provincial trust was taken over with all existing conditions (one of which was the provision of borough quarters) by the Crown, the Crown now has no right as trustee to reject the beneficiary without compensation. The Department states the rooms are urgently needed for public works purposes.