LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1950, 5 December 1906, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

PRESS ASSOCIATION Wellingion, last nigbt. A fireman and a seaman on the sic oner

Itotomshurjtt were each fined Di and L2 9s coats uudor the Baipp.bg and Biauian’s Act for damaging ships’ stores by throwing overboard a certain amount of meat supplied shorn for dinner. No complaint had been made against the quality if tho meat, but tho company btvi ieiued instruo lions as to wbai portion oi j hats net oaten rnuat bo returned. It is understood that uegotiat'ous between tho Oity Gounod aid New Z ;aland Electrical Syndicate, tay which the former takes over tho company’s plant, h»vo been definitely settled at £150.11(10, The appeal iu tae tram t ekos ’ot,ory c-.so has beau uifinueod. Tait, too agpoiiaut, had steured from tho City Corporation the right to dispose a; tho privilege of advertising oa tram tickets, and he ad vet* used in the WcUmg.on newspapers mat he

wo aid in essoin month fsy £6 on prodac* tiou to him ui tiuke.s beating carsam auui' u6t«i which be would as the end o£ the mouth call fur. Toe Magistrate held this io bo a lottery, and Tan appealed. Tue Chief Justico upheld the Magistrate's deoiaion. An improvement has been effected in the old style of controlling milk. Dr Mason haa reoeived instruotiona from the Minister that the Agricultural Department will control everything in byre from that point. Once the milk goes outside the dairy it comBS under the dominion of the Health Department, which has authority of cane, cartp, railage, and everything else connected with milk till it reaches the consumer. As section 346 of the Municipal Corporations Act haa not been repealed local authorities have the same measure of control that tbey exercised formerly. Tnis arrangement only concerns milk and meat ooneumod in the colony. It has nothing to do with goods exported,

Auokland, last nigh:

The annual synod of Auckland district was opened to-day undor tho chairmanship of the Rev G. Bond, The R9V 8, Griffith was appointed secretary, wilh Rcvb B. F, Rothwoll and F. P. Road as assistants. Votes of sympathy with the relatives of the late Revs H. H. Lawry and W. K-.aU were passed. The following candidates were reoommended to the conference: Messrs R. J. Evans, J. F. MartiD, L. Richards, W. Scott, and W. H. Spser, In connection with the training institute the reports of the governor, headmaster, and theological leoturets were presented. It was recommended that Mr R. EL. Wylie be received into oircuit work, and that Messrs Blair, Ojx, Rands, Jordan, and R. B. Tinsley continue in training. A drowning accident occurred last night at the entrance to the Matakaua river. While the- Settlers’ Steamship Co.’s steamer Kotiti was proceeding to Matakana wharf tho deck boy, Charles Clarke, fell overboard, and his body had not been recovered at a late hour last night. Deceased was 18 years of age. Dunedin, last night, William John Morrell, M-A., at present chief master of classics and EnglisD, and first assistant master at the Auckland Grammar School, has been, appointed Kcotor of the Otago Boys’ High School. Mr A. Sim, the well known barrister, returned to-day after a trip to the Home Country. Napier, last night. been'cfovernlnent inspector of Abattoirs in this district for several years, died at the Napier Hospital yesterday'. Mr Ferguson, who was a son of Mr R. H, Ferguson, formerly teacher at Belfast and Burnside, was well known in Canterbury and Otago. Wellington, last night. Owing to the ctolay on Sue part of the Liconsed Victuallers’ Association and the Caterers’ Association in filing obj-ctions to the recommendations of the Oouc-ila-tion Board in cooks and wuiiera’ dispute, tie recommendations have become an award, Their reference was filed a day late. The employees are delighted at tho Board’s recommendations ocming into force.

The Arbitration Court to-day diemissed a charge against a firm of warehousemen of making up bespoke suits, there being no provision in tho tailoresses’ award against lotting out a bßspoke order to a factory.