NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 143, 28 June 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

Bv Telegraph—Press Association. Thames, last night. Mr Charles Carter, an old resident, died suddenly this morning, it is presumed from heart failure.

The residence of Mrs Dunne, at Parawai, was totally destroyed by fire at fouro'clock this morning. Only two young men, her sons, were in the house. An empty house adjoining was also destroyed. The insurance on Dunne’s is .£IOO on the furniture and £BSO on the dwelling in the Victoria, rSIOO in the Commercial Union on the empty house.

Pahiatua, this day-. Obituary : Dr Bode, of consumption. "Wellington, last night. A memorandum from the North Canterbury Women Teachers’ Association was submitted to the Teachers’ Salaries Commission to-day, making a strong appeal for the principle of equal pay for equal work. It challenges the assertion that women are not physically and mentally capable of teaching in the higher standards, and states that in North Canterbury it has been the practice in mixed schools to assign any standard to women teachers.

The Manchester Unity of Oddfellows’ Conference opened this morning. Mr John Smith, of Wellington, was chosen President, and Mr McLeod, of Auckland, Secretary. The business of the Conference is to consider a motion moved by Mr McLeod in favor of electing a moveable Committee and Board of Directors. The debate on the proposal is still pro- ; ceeding. The Oddfellows’ Conference adopted the resolution in favor of a moveable Committee and Board of Directors.

Wanganui, last night. An old miner who has just returned from an exploitation of the Mokau coalfield says he finds it to be of greater extent than expected. lie thinks when it is geologically surveyed it will be found to be of greater area than any other coalfield in the colony, A Sydney syndicate has leased 4000 acres of it, and purposes opening a depot at Wanganui. Auckland, last night. News from Fiji records the wreck of four native cutters, Including the Tawa Ximate, which drifted to sea, and the Tui Malolo, which weiit to her assistance. Both are supposed to have foundered. The Quickstep, timber-laden, was driven ashore and totally wrecked, and the Nukueula driven on a coral patch.