NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 18, 23 January 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND.

[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Dunedin, last night. Mr Ward told a deputation, including the Mayor, Colonel Webb, and others, that he thinks the Imperial troops will come to New Zealand. Military etiquette was for them to come in cases ot the kind, but under the circumstances all big functions would be avoided. The present intention was for the troops to stay at Invercargill three hours, leaving there at noon on the 2nd, staying an hour at Gore, and arriving at Dunedin at 7 on Saturday night. The troops are to be entertained by the citizens in the Agricultural Hall, with a big church parade on Sunday on the old Asylum grounds at the Town Belt. The troops leave here by special train at 7.30 on the morning of the 4th, staying an hour at Oamaru and Timaru, and probably at Ashburton. At the Conciliation Board to-day the Boiler-makers’ and Shipbuilders’ Union cited all the employers in Otago and Southland. Their claims are 48 hours per week, boilermakers to receive not less than Is Gd an hour, overtime at one and a half above ordinary rates, except on statutory holidays, when double time is demanded; apprentices to be indentured for five years, after three months’ probation, with one apprentice to every journeyman ; country workmen to be paid fares both ways besides living expenses on the job; preference for unionists; boilermakers employed on repairing work to receive a shilling a day extra as “dirt money.” The case is propeeding. Mr Crombie, stationmaster at Dunedin, has been promoted to be district manager at Greymouth, vice Mr Piper, promoted to Wanganui. Timaru, last night. The Timaru Presbytery to-day accepted the resignation of the Rev. Wm. Gillies, and will recommend his appointment by the Assembly as minister emeritus. The Harbor Board resolved to-day to determine the contract for the eastern rubber mole, on the ground that the contractors were making insufficient progress. Thames, last night. Peter Norbury’s grocer shop, Pollen street, was gutted last night. The insurances on the building are £2OO in the South British, and on the contents £3OO in the Manohesier Union. The origin o! the fire is unknown. |t is attribute to tats,