NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 537, 3 October 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. A house at Ponsonby occupied by a widow named Parnell, was destroyed by fire last night. The inmates had a narrow escape. Mr Cotter, solicitor was the owner. The huusc was insured in the Commercial Union for £250, and the, furniture for £2OO in the Phoenix. Obituary : Mr Houcheu, ex-Church of England clergyman, after a long jlness. WAIROA', yesterday. Joseph Burton was charged with cruelly illusing four pack horses, employed in carrying mails between Napier and Wairoa, and was lined £5 and 9.s costs. WAIPAWA, last night. Reports to hand show that thw mortality among lambs during the late severe weather was not nearly so great as was anticipated. 1 ambing throughout the district is good. . PALMERSTON N., rnst night.

Messrs. Canning, of I-lawke’s Bay, and J. D. . Ironmonger, Wellington, will fudge the poultry at the forthcoming Manawata A. and P. Show Mr C Branch, of Wellington, will .judge the collies, and Messrs It. G. Mackin, Koputuroa, and E. 1 eLautour Waijgaimi, the remaining dog classes at the show. HAWERA, last night. Last evening R. E. Mcßae, a wellknown sporting man, and for many years prominent in local politics, was entertained at a smoke concert, and presented with a purse of sovereigns and gold badge of life membership of the Egmont Racing Club, of which he has been a steward since U e club’s inception. Mr Mcßae did much to improve blood and draught stock as well as sheep and cattle in the district. He is going to South Africa to settle. The Borough Council have accepted a tender of £1857 17s 9d for the erection of abbatoirs. A movement is on foot to erect a memorial to Trooper Goodland and other South 'i aranaki men who lost their lives in South Africa. , . . , ,

WELLINGTON, last night.

The Governor and Lady Ruifurly, at the end of Ihe month leave the colony on a visit to their property at Mildura. in Victoria. The Governor having assented this morning to the Bank Hoiidays Act, Labour" Day, second Wednesday in October. becomes a baijk noli lav, ami will he so observed next Wednesday. An impression has got abroad that the New Zealand hand which it is now practically certain will visit England will not compete in any contests when at Home. Lieutenant Herd, however, ,states that this is wrong. The hand will be a competitor in several of the principal contests. _ Tne return of gold exported irom the colony during the past nine months is the largest for the 'same period for seme years, viz., 3/2,81/ ounces, of the value of £1,533,966, and is nearly as lar ir e as the return for the whole of the year 1900. Tint total gold exported last month was 57,873 ounces, .valued at £222.166. The export of silver last month was 61,037 ounces, valued at £6220. CHRISTCHURCH, last night.; The rangemakers’ dispute Was before the Arbitration Court, this morning. The demands of the Union are that the hours of work -shall he from 7.15 to 5, and 7.-15 to 12 <>n half-holidays, the minimum 9s per day for range litters and polishers and 8s for grinders ; apprentices, one to three journeymen and wages to range from 7s 6d ia the first/ year to 30s in the fifth;