NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 12, 16 January 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wellington, last night.

Sir Alfred Milner cables that Trooper Camt eron, of Martinborough, Wairarapa, died a Bindley of enteric fever on the 2nd inst. As his name does not appear in the official lists of the New Zealand contingents the authorities assume that deceased must have joined one of the corps formed in South Africa. Mr Buxton, district railway traffic manager at Wanganui, has been offered a similar position in Auckland, vice Mr Donne. If he accepts he will probably be succeeded by Mr Waite, at present Chief Clerk to the General Manager of Bailways. At the request of the Beception Committee in Dunedin, the Acting-Premier has cabled to the Imperial transport officer asking that the Orient, with the returned troopers, should be timed to arrive at Port Chalmers at 4 a.m. next Tuesday. The evidence in the sawmills case has concluded, and the Conciliation Board is now considering the matter. The Agent-General has cabled as follows to the Acting-Premier:—“Colonial Office informs me that the War Office has recommended the Admiralty to arrange for an extension of the visit of the Imperial troops from Australia to New Zealand.”

Mr George Fisher, M.H.E., obtained a separation order from his wife yesterday on consenting to payment of £1 per week towards her support. The Postal Department is advised that the colonial mails per Miowera, which left Sydney on December sth, reached London on January 12th, three days late. The Federal Contingent was paid off today. Some twenty of the men go into camp at Newtown for the Sixth Contingent, and the rest return to their homes. They are allowed to retain the uniforms supplied to them.

Dr O’Neill, assistant surgeon at Dunedin Hospital, has been appointed assistant surgeon to the. Sixth Contingent. He was edudated at Otago University. Christchurch, last night.

Truth’s special correspondent wired yesterday that it was felt in Dunedin that Judge Martin’s successor would be Dr Fitchett, or Mr Sim, of Dunedin, or Dr Stringer, of Christchurch. Mr Theo. Cooper, of Auckland, is also mentioned here.

Palmerston N., last night. An eleven-roomed house at' Hokowhitu, owned and occupied by W. Luxford and family, was destroyed by fire this morning. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The insurance is £-500, in the Commercial Union.