NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 155, 12 July 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, last night. It is suggested that preparations should be got on foot for a titling reception to the Auckland troopers returning from South Africa via the South. The Auckland portion of the returning contingents numbers from 15U to HO men, under Captain Major. The Norwegian barque Noider, bound from Capetown to Fiji, was wrecked on a reef at Suva on June 27th. Iler hull lias j been purchased by the Union Steamship B'ompanv. There is litt, ■ hope of floating the vessel. Waihi, last night. Two miners n imod Hawkins and Nelson, employed at the Woodstock mine, Kurangahake. have me: with a serious accident by an explosion in the main level. Tiie former's eyes and chest Were severely injured. Both were taken to the j hospital. Christchurch, last night. -Messrs G. •). Smith, Charles Taylor, and A. W. Turnbull were nominated this morning for the vacancy in the reprei seutation of the city of Christchurch. The total number on the roll is 17.265, which is 1076 less than at the last general election. Wellington, last night. News bv the mail from the Cape states that Vernon Steward, son of Major Steward, M. 11.1;., has accepted a commission in the Imperial Army. It is understood that a committee of the City Council has selected a site at Ngaliauraug.i for municipal abattoirs. 1 No judgments were given in the Appeal Court this morning, but the Bench sat as j a Supreme Court to hear a motion to quash the granting of a license to the ; Hotel Commonwealth, at New Plymouth. The ground of the objection is that what i was done amounts to an attempted evasion 1 of the provisions of the Licensing Acts i against the removal of licenses. ;