GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2149, 3 August 1907, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Press Association.

WELLINGTON, last night. The steamer Delphic, which lett Wellington on June loth lor London, arrived there on Thursday. DUNEDIN, August 2. The annual meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce was held today. The president of tho Chamber, Mr. J. w: Henton, in n lengthy ad- i ditss expressed the opinion that trade during the year had boon distinctly I good. Bankruptcies had been few, I and trade engagements fairly met. I The oxport of leading products had I fallen off, if anything, very slightly. The export of gold also showed a I sligh' decrease, while imports bv the j latest figures obtainable had incrcas- I cl by approximately £273,000. Mr. j Walter Gow was elected president and I Mr. Dugald McPherson vice-president I fe. the ensuing year. In connection with a number of inflictions disease eases recently reported, a conference of authorities inter- I ested was held to-day. Xhoso present I at the meeting were the Mayor, two I representatives of the Hospital I Board, the District Health Officer. I and two representatives of citizens I who have subscribed £250 for the I put poses of immediate relief, pending ihe building of an infectious diseases I

hospital. The representatives of tho Hospital Board stated that they had no power to expend money on patients confined in temporary premises. It was resolved to send a telegram to the Premier asking that Dr. Alason the,Chief Health Officer, bo sent to‘Dunedin to confer with the Hospital Board with a view to end tho unsatisfactory- method of dealing with infected people where there is no infectious diseases hospital. AUCKLAND, August 2. The employees of the Colonial Ammunition Company have forwarded a petition to the Hon. Air. Alillar, thanking the Government for tho proposed tariff on shot, cartridges, and eases, etc. At present it is stated that about 10 workers arc employed by the company, ami if the proposals ire carried it would give employment to 100 or 150 on shot cartridges dene At the present time threefoi.rths of tlie machinery is standing idle for want of work. If the Government proposals are not carried the company will send its plant and machinery to Australia at tho end of the present year. V meteor of remarkable brilliance ivai seen in Auckland early this evening. It is Thought that it must have ha 1 some connection with the comet. A resident at Uemuera states that the locality was brilliantly lighted up. The visitor disappeared as mysteriously as it had come.

WELLINGTON, August 2. The death occurred at Karori this morning of Joseph W. Jordan. Deceased arrived in the colony in 1803. He took ui> land in Rangitikei, and later became stock inspector in Wellington and Wanganui districts. Deceased was the first secretary of the Wanganui A. and P. Society’, and one ;>r the original members of the D Battery Artillery, and was for many years in the Railway Service in Otago.

Three Chinese gardeners at Otaki vere fined Is each and costs for working oil Sundays, and warned that they would bo severely dealt with if they offended again.