NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10215, 10 December 1898, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND.

V 1 (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) AUCKLAND, December 9. The Premier left for Gisborne« by the Flora to night. He addresses a public meeting there on Saturday. In answer to a deputation from St>. Stephen's Native Home, Parnell, who asked for Government assistance in the industrial training of Maori youths, Mr Seddon said if the trustees formulated a scheme he would give every assistance. There was a sum of £1000 under the Civil- List*, which could be used in the interest of the Maori race. WELLINGTON, December 9. The Hon. J G. Ward left last night for Sydney on a business visit. He will be away about! two months. At the Magistrate's Court, to-day, two bookmakers, named Harry Mooney and Henry Darling, were mulcted in the sum of £5 each, in fine and costs, for trespassing on the Hutt racecourse at the recent Wellington races. WELLINGTON, December 9. The balance-sheet of the Pahiatua Bush Fire Relief Fund shows that £999 2s 5d were subscribed. There were 332 claims, amounting to £30,344, and assistance was only rendered in the more necessitous cases. Tho most needy got 5s in the £ on their loss, and the others 3a in the £. Mr J. Wilkie, the well-known journalist and member of the Conciliation BoareJ, is ill, and not expected to recover. DUNEDIN, December 9. George Grant and Alexander Blue were to-day committed for trial on a charge of breaking into a store and stealing goods to the value of about.£7.