DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2287, 4 September 1908, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

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AUCKLAND, (Sept. 3. The Auckland Trades and Labor Council last night endorsed the resolution of the Christchurch Council asking for the removal of Judge ranu from the Arbitration Court bench. Included in tlio immigrants who arrived at Auckland by the steamer Oswestry Grange from Liverpool today are about a dozen domestic servants, of whom four or fivo have arranged to leave the ship at this port. There arc also several miners, tradesmen, and laborers, while one of the new arrivals puts nimsolf down as an evangelist. A meeting of fruit importers to consider tho Island fruit regulations was held this afternoon. Many strong speeches were made, and Alajor Brown, entomologist, referred to the different species of Hies, declaring thatthe Government regulations were mot worth tho paper they were printed on. lie said that the only fly that would breed, hero was the Mediterranean species. Experiments had proved that the Queensland fly would not breed here, and it was only the Queensland fly that was an the Islands. A resolution was carried strongly protesting against the .regulations, and urgin' l, their immediate withdrawal. WELLINGTON, Sept. 3.

Replying to a deputation of members of Parliament asking for better salaries of land valuers, the Hon. Mr. AlcNab expressed sympathy, and said provision would be made in the Supplementary Estimates. He hoped within tho year to grade valuers. The following is Captain Edwin s weather forecast to 3 p.m. to-mor-row : Aloderate northerly winds northward of Napier and New Plymouth, strong to gale with rain from tho northward in all other parts of the colony, and falling barometer everywhere. It is notified in to-night s Gazette that September 26th will be observed as a holiday in Government offices, being the anniversary of tlio day on which the colony of Now Zealand ceased to bo a colony and became a Dominion.

NELSON, Sept, 3. Very drastic action is being taken by the pomological staff in dealing with tho San Jose scalo, which has appeared ill various places throughout the province. The majority of the persons in whose orchards the blight lias been discovered have receiver! notice to spray -their trees, and where' this has not been effectivelv carried out the Inspectors are destroying the trees. Fruitgrowers strongly resent the wholesale slaughter being made, am! talk of petitioning the Government for compensation. . ~ The Otnutnhu water diviner, the Rev. 11. Mason, is at present engaged in tho Alotueka district, and has indicated several places in which he claims artesian bores may be successfully driven. So far none of the sites have been tested. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 3. At a meeting of the Board of Governors of the AlcLean Institute today, it was resolved to lease a large house at Opawa to be used a 6 tlio house for gentlewomen directed to be established under the will of tho late Allan AlcLean. A matron is to he appointed at a salary of £2OO annually. A lengthy discussion took place on a proposal that for the time being tlie inmates be restricted to the wives, daughters, or sisters of Canterbury residents who arrived in the province prior to 1885, but the proposal was not adopted. Hazel Savage, fifteen months old. was accidentally drowned to-dav at Halswell, through falling into a creek. The child wandered . away from home, and was found in the creek a few minutes later by her mother.

The Canterbury Philosophical Institute at the meeting last evening decided to take steps' to obtain records of seasonable changes affecting plants in different parts of New Zealand. The scheme was adopted on the motion of Dr. Cockayne, seconded by Dr. Coleridge Farr. I)r. Cockayne said that all kinds of seasonal changes should be noted, and much valuable information could be ob•tained. The records would be edited, and they might be published in the “Transactions of the New Zealand Institute.” Dr. Farr suggested that the services of school children should ho used. Mr. 15. G. Ifoetr. president of the Institute, said that if all members helped to record facts as they came under their notice they could be sorted by trained botanists, and very Till liable information "would bo made available to students. A committee was set up to take the scheme in band.

DUNEDIN, Sept. 3. At a meeting-of tbe National Insurance Company to-dny, resolutions providing for enlarging the powers of tlie company were unanimously carried. As soon as the resolutions are confirmed the directors will open an accident branch.

At ii meeting of the Methodist Conference Committee on Temperance and Public Morals to-day, it was decided to send a circular manifesto to all Methodist- congregations urging the importance of having their names placed on -the roll and recording thenvotes for No-License on the day of the poll. , , . The boot-makers, the engine-driv-ers, and the moulders unions have endorsed the resolution of the Trades and Labor Conference relating to noliconse, and the carters, tlio slaughtermens, the millers, and the railway workers unions have opposed the reslution. „ ~ , . At a meeting of tho trades, and Labor Council to-night, the following motion was carried: —"That the sympathy of the Council be extended to the Canterbury farm laborers in the position in which they have been placed owing to the arbitrary and high-handed action of the President of the Arbitration Court in refusing an award, and tbe Council endorses the action of Mr. J. A. McCullough in entering an emphatic protest against the decision of the Court.” Tlio Council also decided that the proposals in the Hon. G. Fowlds’ Bill for extending the franchise in connection with the election of trustees of hospitals and Charitable Aid Boards bo approved, and that the local members of Parliament be asked to support tbe same.