DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2219, 17 June 1908, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

[Press Association.] TAUMiARANUI, Juno 16. The Prime Minister came through to Taumaranui to-day by the Main Trunk route, coaching the gap between- the railheads. He informed an “Auckland Herald” reporter that it was intended to have the connection between the two railheads made ■by August 7th, if possible, and that he had teegra-phed to all the members of Parliament to this effect. Sir Joseph- Ward addressed a public meeting at Taumaranui to-night. NAPIER, June 16. ■Lady -Piunket this afternoon addressed a- meeting at Havelock North on the objects of the Society for the ■Promoting of -the Health of Women and Children, and in the evening she spoke on the same subject at a lar-gely-attended meeting under the auspices of -the Napier branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. At the meetings attended by Lady Piunket in this district explanations and demonstrations of the method of -preparing humanised milk At tlie winter meeting of the Ha wke’s Bay Gun Chib at Hastings today, J. Lauronson was most success* Inf in the Open Handicap, and T. Christofell came next, and they divided first and second money. WELLINGTON, June 16. The following is Captain-Edwin’s •weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-nior-'xovei —-Strong south-easterly., winds -northward of Napier, Tapo, and Raglan, with considerable sea- north of Napier, and‘with rain: moderate to strong south-easterly winds elsewhere, and rising barometer generally. ■