GREATER NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 191, 24 August 1901, Page 2

GREATER NEW ZEALAND.

OFFICIAL MORALITY (t) IN THE COOK ISLANDS. PBB PRESS ASSOCUTIOH. Auckland, August 23. The Star's Cook Island correspondent says it would be idle to disguise that ? thero is a feeling of unrest since the annexation as to the future administration of the Islands, and this it not lessened by the events of the last two months. All Government moneys I passed through the hands of Mr Good- | win, Tieasurer, and Mr Gossett, 00lI lector of Customs. Goodwin was recently killed by the explosion of « rocket, and Gossett was suspended on July lab for drunkenness and atones from his office. An investigation showed a deficiency in his account of £637, and of Goodwin £460. Gosseit was tried before a Oourr, inoludiog Colonel Gudgeon. He pleaded guilty, and wassenienced to two ye»ra hard labour. He said he had spent money in liquor, curios, and stamp, and bad aced in collusion with Goodwin. Oiptain Hoff, Government Auditor, in his evidence, stated that £6OO of the deficiency had been refunded by a cheque of Colonel Gudgeon, node of the pisoner. Tfre question tf import duties ia agitating the minds of traders at Raratonga. The o'd duty «f t«a cent, has given away to New Zealand | Customs rates, except on goods im* ported from New Zealand, thus gosda j direct from Sydney pay a high tariff, but if via Auckland only ten p» «tp* t The diff-rential duty, however, talk principally agaiiiet Tahiti, which is * large bu) er of New Zealand produce.