LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1855, 8 September 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Blenheim, last night. At a meeting of the Exhibition Commit* tae if was unanimously resolved that Marlborough withdraw from all competitions for grain exhibits unless tho entries for that class olose at the end of October. Dunedm, last night.

Employees of millers in and around Danedin have called a meeting to protest against the suggested reoiprooity treaty with Australia.

New Plymouth, last night,

Mr Barry, local representative of tho Parapara Icon and Steel Company, intimated at the Chamber of Commerce meeting tomight that Government is quite prepared to amend olause 14 of the Para* para leases in any way desired by the company in order to ensure the development of the iron ore industry. Tae New Plymouth Chamber of Commerce resolved that Government be requested Dot to ratify the reciprocity treaty with Australia.

Ashburton, last night.

At the B.M. Court to day a shopkeeper was fined 53 for selling a small boy a pennyworth of lollies on Sunday last.

Welliog'oo, last night

At the Magistrate’s Court to day Ernest Binge, a dairyman, was fined £3 for having failed to keep his dairy in a.siate of thorough cleanliness. At the quarterly meating of the Newtown Lioonsing Committee, it was indicated to the liceDseo of the Park Hotel that the license would not be renewed at the annu 1 1 meeting unless the house was conducted in a better way. Tho polios reports slated that too much drunkenness was seen about the premises.