GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2119, 29 June 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Ukllblinia I Ha va ■ Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. A Star correspondent writes that an Australasian excursion from Vancouver is being organised to sail on December Bth. The party will ‘ be composed of bankers, capitalists and investors under the Orient Tours Association. The itinerary comprises visits to Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Dunedin,. Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland. A number of the party intend studying the political and labor conditions in these colonies, , • , WELLINGTON, yesterday. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Kirkealdie and Stains were fined tOt and costs for employing threo female assistants for more than five hours continuously without an interval of at least' qne hoijr for a meal, contrary tb the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act. ASHBURTON, yesterday. Thomas Murphy pleaded guilty to Belling liquor at Winslow, in the Ashburton no-licenso district, and was fined £2O. Ho was given one month in which to pay the amount. 1 DUNEDIN, yesterday. The Union Company are advised that the s.s. Marama, the new intercolonial steamer, of 6000 tons, Pass successfully launched at Greenock vesterdav the customary ceremony “. of the vessel being performed b/ M J r rS Whldruvsbii, S ’S.M.. dismised an information against tlie .Covimt against Alexander Congolton of no legibly _ At a meoting of the Harbor Board to-May Mr. It R- Douglas, dredgemaster under the Otago Harbor Board, was selected from <34 applicants for the position of dredgomaster of the Timaru Board’s new dredge. 'For the position of ladderman on the same boat there were also 34 applic•i ants, and E. 'Morrison, now at theBluff, was appointed.