GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 1 June 1907, Page 1

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. At a meeting of the Committee of the Canterbury Industrial Asspciation the question of the revision of the Customs tariff was discussed, and it was decided to ask the other Associations to send representatives to a conference, at which a statement of the changes required might be pro-, pared for submission to the Government. At the quarterly meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Cpiprneree resolutions urging the speedy completion of the Midland railway to the West Coast were passed. Mr. T. H. Race, Canadian Commissioner at the Exhibition, and Mr. A. Longden, British Art Commissioner, were present at the meeting, and v;ere accorded a farewell, Mr. Race stated that one result of the Exhibition would be to increase trade between Canada and New Zealand, and Mr. Longden urged that the duty on works of art coming, in from other parts .should be removed. Ur. Race left on his return journey last night. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club was liekl yesterday afternoon. The balance-sheet showed that the receipts for tlip year liad

amounted to £41,272, which included £10,832 race receipts'and £18,584 on totulisator account. The expenditure totalled , £39,697, which included £2s,33(fstakes paid, and £2891 totalisation tax. On the general working account the profit for the year was £5313. The Chairman, Mr. F. H. Pyne, in ploying thp adoption of the report and balance-sheet, said the future prosperity of the club largely depended on the continuance of the totalisator, and lie confidently believed that those people who thought that no law could abolish -betting I would be in the majority, and would not allow the totalisator to be done ! away with. He wished to say nothin'' against respectable bookmak- ! crs, but surely the totalisator lyas the healthiest and best form of betting, without which flic club could give nothing like the same valuable stakes which they are now enabled to give. Many people in New Zealand who had not been to the Old | Country, when* the totalisator was not in existence, had not idea of the ' vast extent to which betting attained amongst all classes of the community. He knew that in nearly -every coun--1 try village snips of pionpy from Gd upwards were collected every day and sent „to London or some other largo centre for investment on the day’s races. . ■

WELLINGTON, .yesterday. Oil completion of the overhaul she is now undergoing at Wellington, the steam trawler Nora Niven will leave , oil her experimental trawling trip on behalf of the Government. She will go straight to Stewart Island, and commence work there. The Government has decided to abandon for the'prescnt' the proposed completion of a marine survey of the coast' of New Zealand, itv being impossible to secure from the Imperial Government a suitable vessel for the work, and the Hinemoa und Tutanekai not being available. The schooner Emma Sims, which went ashore on Hana Island last week, was patched up during the week with the object of floating her off. The south-westerly gale of the past few days carried the vessel right up on the rocks, and knocked the bottom out- of her. The section of the North Island Main Trunk railway between Taihapo and Mataroa will be opened for passenger traffic to-morrow. The section is six miles long, making the distance from Marton fifty miles. Goods trains have been running lip \is far as Waiouru for some time, and it is intended next month to open die- jUaturoa-Turangarere. section, ole- - veil miles, for passenger traffic. i Henry Peacoc'k was to- day com- • mittod for trial on two charges of i having in his .possession one mould i intended to make a resemblance of < both sides of half a sovereign, and i another of both sides of a half-crown.

Since the middle of March, 165 cases of scarlot fever liavo been reported in AVellington city and district. Of that number four cases were fatal.

AUCKLAND, yesterday. Mr. Bush, city engineer, on his re-

turn from tho South, said lie was .nuch impressed with the treatment >f the .tramway tracks, at Dunedin, vlicro 'tliey -were paved with tarred macadam. The work was eminently successful, and has materially minimised tho dust nuisance. He thought the work at the AA’aipori Falls power station extremely well carried out, mil tho only portion likely to cause my anxiety was the wooden flooring. Mr. Bush found public men in Christchurch very .sanguine as to the growth of their city. They regarded

tho proposed canal between Christchurch and Sumner quite seriously though it would cost a very large sum of money to construct and maintain. Mr. Bush said AA’ellington was fortunate in having a scheme of sewage disposal which is complete, but

extensive additions would be necessary for the suburbs. The new destructor is of a most modern type. It is urgently needed. He was much impressed with the great saving effected by tho AVcllington Council in doing its own works, such as making kerbstones and flags, scavenging brooms, etc. It paid handsomely.

NAPIER, yesterday. A writ claiming. £2OOO damages lias been issued by AVilliam Piowman against Patrick Gleeson, the wellknown brewer, for alleged slander.

DUNEDIN, yesterday

Applications were received at the Harbor Board meeting yesterday for the position of harbormaster, chief accountant, and junior pilot. It was resolved to send the applications to a committee, to select the four most eligible in each case, tho names to the Board next Tuescfay! * "

Three sailors of the four-masted barquentine,.Titania and one of the steamer Inveran were each sentenced to one month’s hard labor lor refusing duty,

Alex. Bagley,' chemist-, was fined one shilling without costs for selling 'liniment containing poison without entering the ingredients, composition and name of the purchaser in the register. It was stated the point had neveri been raised since the Poisons Act came into force thirty-six years

INA T ERCARG ILL, yesterday

Mr. McCarthy, S.M., delivered a reserved judgment in the case of Margaret McAuliffe, charged , with sly grog, selling at the Shamrock hotel. Defendant had been previously convicted of keeping liquor for sale in a no-liccuso area. The Magis-

trate found the charge substantiated, and sentenced accused to threo months’ imprisonment.