NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1269, 26 October 1911, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Ilßy Tck'Eraph—Fresa Association.) « MINES COMMISSION. Groymouth, October 25. Tho Minos Commission visited Uio Brunner mine yesterday. To-day tho commission is at both tho State mines, and to-morrow will take evidence at tho Courthouse. It had to defer inspection of the Blackball colliery owing to a slip. Tho commission will probably return to . Wellington at the end of next week. GISBORNE SHOW. Gisbornc, October 21. The thirty-second annual A. and P. 6how opened to-day in lino weather, the attendance- was not quilt as largo as usual, but a record attendance is expected to-morrow lor "People's Day." Interest in (he show is well maintained, and tho entries have increased from 1229 last year to IIMU. There was a particularly good increase in cattle. The entries in tho sheep classes are only notable for tho exhibit of Koumeys. Tho champion awards in the sheep classes were as follow :—Lincoln ram, A. J. Cameron, Gisborne; Lincoln owe, K. C. Miller, Gisboruo; iiomney ram, A. and J. Gray, Jtastenon; Itomney ewe, ]?. Hutchinson . and Son, llawke's Bay. NO-LICENSE MANIFESTO. > Invercarrjill, Ootober 21. A manifesto, signed by one hundred and fifty business men and othere, is publish- ' ed, "stating that since the carrying of NoLioenso live years ago tho moral tone of the. town has improved, crime and drunkenness diminished, business materially ■ improved, and recommending No-Licenso • for other centres. BIG GREYMOUTH FIRE. | GrEymouth, October 25. ! Tho biggest ftro for seventeen years occurred hero on Sunday morning, whereby r Whiteside's bakery, where it originated, ' and Tymon's, and also Bolton's drapery { store, and Mr. Joseph 'i'homson's rcsi- , donee wow all destroyed. Hundreds ol willing workers formed, "a bucket brigade, , but tho want of a town water supply hindered operations, though Gregory's uoawl- . inghouso and the Oddfellows' Lodge were . savod by their persistent oilorts. ine . drapery stores were partly saved, but tho f goods were damaged by water. The ni- | suraacos aro not yot available. [ THE EXCEPTION. Timaru, Oclobor 21. ; It is a long time since a farmer was 1 made bankrupt in this district, T°-day, ' however, a Geraldine farmer, named Con--5 nolly, who lx>gan fanning and dealing in ' 1901" with .£837 (obtained from his father) 5 met his creditors with unsecured debts 1 over JC4OOO (chielly losses in dealing) and ' no assets. Tho farm had been lost' by j foreclosure. ! RAILWAY WAGES. r Wangar.ui, October 25. ' At a meeting of the local branch of : tho Amalgamated Society of Railway t Servants last evening tho following motion was carried;—" That this branch j urges the Minister for Railways to fix a 1 minimum wago of 9s. per day."