NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 237, 15 October 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, last night-,

A Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen's Association, on similar lines to the Southern Association, has been formed in Auckland, with a membership of 220, with the object of establishing a club and relief fund. The club will be furnished forthwith. Mr -I. C. Macky was elected the first president. William Coulson, caretaker of the Haurgki mines battery, Coromandel, was found drowned in a creek. It is believed he was caught in a drive of logs that came down the creek about the time he disappeared.

An infant named Sydney Stanley Solomon died yesterday at the hospital as the result of burns inflicted on Friday, Some matches from a candlestick caught fire through the candle burning down, and the burning matchbox jumped on to the child’s pillow, burning the back of his head.

Wellington, last night. Leonard I’oeock has been committed tor trial on a charge of having caused a telegram lo be sent to a Mrs Francis, of Christchurch, purporting to be signed by Robert Francis, her son, as a result of which she remitted £B, which accused is alleged to have obtained. The Minister of Agriculture has vetoed t-ho site at Ngahauranga selected by the Wellington City Council for public abattoirs.

The Agent-General’s cablegram, dated London 12th :—“Trade for all classes of mutton lias been very slow, and prices are barely maintained. Canterbury mutton is at 3:jd, Dunedin and Southland ilj;d, North Island ojjd, River Plate 3}d. There is scarcely any demand for lamb. Tiie market is depressed. Canterbury is at -JJd, other brands 4,',d. There is a better demand for beef. Stocks of New Zealand on hand are light. Hinds are at 4d, fores 2;jd. Butter is firm. Canadian is at 108 s, Danish 1245. Cheese is dull; Canadian 465. Ileuip, quiet; prices unaltered."

Wakapualca, last night. The cable steamer Scotia telegraphs from sea that she has paid out ,13f> knots of the Cocos Islands-Fremantle cable.

Masterton, last night. In the Magistrate’s Court Frank M. Clark, well known in theatrical circles, was charged with the theft of TO 15s, t-ho property of the totalisator proprietors. Counsel for the prosecution asked leave to tender no evidence, as he'i-ffonsidered a mistake had been made, and there was no criminal intent. He pointed out that the system of paying out on two horses had just been introduced, and it was easy to make a mistake and to present the tickets at the wrong windows. Clark had offered to refund the TO 15s overpaid. The Magistrate adjourned the case for a fortnight to give the police an opportunity of deciding whether they would proceed.

Wanganui, last night. A Parliamentary party of 18 members and their wives participated in an up-the-river trip, arranged at the invitation of the Wanganui Settlers’ Up-river Company. They left Wanganui wharf at 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon for Pipiviki by the Aorere, and left Pipiriki the following morning for Tangarukau, some 90 miles above Wanganui, arriving on Sunday afternoon. The party returned to town about midday, and loft at one o’clock for Wellington. The weather was beautiful throughout, and all express themselves delighted with the beauties of the scenery of the New Zealand Rhine.

W. P. Stuart, proprietor of the Newmarket Hotel, and a well-known Highlander, who died on Saturday as the outcome of injuries sustained in a recent trap accident, is to be accordeda military funeral to-morrow.

Dunedin, last night. The Conciliation Board’s award in the matter of the grocers’ dispute gives 53 hours for a week, a statutory half-holiday, closing on Saturdays at 10 at night and 9 o’clock on days preceding public holidays, minimum wage £2 to assistants over 21, youths 10s in the first year to 25s in the fifth year, apprenticeship one youth and one boy to every three assistants, carters from HI 15s to £2. The award does not apply to clerks or office youths.