YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2142, 26 July 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Press Association,

AUCKLAND, yesterday. At a meeting of tho Management Committee of tho Auckland Rugby Union, a letter was received from the

Hawke’s Bay Union -asking the Auckland Union to use its influence with the Rugby Union in having the Hawke’s Bay y. Auckland fixture declared a special challenge match. According to - yesterday’s press wire -the last match was,played at Napier in 1903, whereas Hawke’s Bay visited Auckland in 1905 and suffered defeat. Auckland has played’ three times in Napier, and the Hawke’s Bay men have played on three occasions in Auckland. The latter fixture was inadvertently omitted from the Auckland Rugby Union’s annual report. Mr. Langford will point this out in a telegram to the New Zealand Rugby Union. In the case of Schneideman Bros, v. Mrs. Alfred Nathan, claim twelve guineas for a dress alleged to be a misfit,_ Mr. , Kettle, S.M., nonsuited plaintiff, with costs. The City Council held a special meeting to-day to consider a proposal to amend the by-laws to allow a certain number of passengers to stand in the tramway cars. A deputation from the Tramways , Union strongly protested against the proposal. The matter was eventually' referred hack to the committee for reconsideration. The Mayor is forwarding a letter tb the chairman of directors of the Elec-' trie Tramway Company, London, in reference to the friction in the matter of running and management of trams, notably the insufficiency of rolling stock and electric power, upon which public feeling runs very high. The Mayor asks if the company are prepared to negotiate for the sale of its interests in tho tramway’s of Auckland to a local Tramway Board, to work the concern on behalf of the various local bodies interested; iff’so, upon what' basis can tbe price to be paid be assessed. The Mayor estimates that forty per cent, of tho shares are held in Auckland, and the British Electric Traction Company hold tho remainder.

DUNEDIN, yesterday

The Garrison Hall was filled last night with an enthusiastic anti-Chin-ese audience, when Mr. W. A. Lloyd, agent for the Anti-Chinese League, gave an address on the subject. A wire was received from the Premier as follows: “My sympathies are entirely with the cause you support. My views on this question are, I presume, well known, for both in Parliament and out I have constantly advocated exclusion from colony of people whose, admission might make for deterioration of our race. Unfortunately the imposition of a poll tax has not been successful in preventing an influx of Cbinc.se. It is very necessary, in the best, interests of the colony, that further restrictions should be imposed, and it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation to remedy the. existing state of things. A high educational test is proposed, and this, with the poll tax, it is hoped in a great measure will act as a deterrent to any increase in the number of Chinese coining to our country in the future.” A resolntioif was unanimously carried, endorsing the introduction of legislation restricting the entry of Chinese to tho colony. An amendment by Dr. Kirk and the Rev. A. Don, Chinese missionary, affirming the principle that in the commercial interests of New Zealand Chinese immigration should continue, was negatived emphatically. A further resolution was carried unanimously, stating that intermarriage between Europeans and Asiatics should be prohibited by law, and it was also resolved that the present) unfair advantage enjoyed h.v Chinese in trade competition with Europeans should he immediately terminated by making factory legislation apply equally to Chinese and Europeans. NEW PLYMOUTH, yesterday. At the poultry show N. Oldham, of Marton, won the North Island championship for modern game with a tilack and red cock. S. Brooks won the North Island championship for Norwich canaries, and S. J. A. Hiclin that for bull Leghorns with a pullet

MASTERTON, yesterday. The Government, have . accepted £IOOO as the difference in value of the site belonging to the Government proposed to bo conveyed in exchange ■for n site near the courthouse. The trustees first asked £I3OO. The con cession > s considered to be likely to • vcrv advantageous to the town. A Chinaman named Lee, at Mar-

tinborougli, is bankrupt, with liabilities of £IOOO and an estimated deficiency of £3OO. He attributes his bankruptcy mainly to an unprofit ible

partnership with a Maori. Ho lognn business two years ago with a capital of £2B. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. Yesterday tho Inspector tor tin, Socioty for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wont to New liiighton and shot a largo seal stranded in the beach. Tho animal was either Mck of injured, and had boon lying on the beach within high-water mark, unablo to moves, but evidently suitering, and it was shot, as an act of mercy. The seal was a female, and one ol thoso liberated after the eloso ol tho Exhibition. It was known locally as Nellie. It was very tamo, and a great net with children, who led her with tit-hits of meat and fish. This coddling and tameness is considered to have unfitted hot- to make her own living when freed. The other Exhibition seals wore males, and have been seen in various places oil the coast, apparently doing well, too well for tlio comfort of anglers, who still complain of their ravages among tlio trout at. tho river mouths. ' A message recoivod from ’Kaiapoi to-day states that two seals, bolioved to be the Exhibition seals, wore found dead near Kaiapoi with bullet wounds in tlioir bodies and tho skins off.

TIATARU, yesterday

At the Arbitration Court hero today about. 90 employes of tho Smithfield and Pareora freezing works were to have boon dealt with for striking in February last, but' when the cases woro called on Mr. Raymond, who apopared for tho defendants, said they had _ not been properly cited. Air. AVliito, for tho Department, admitted this was so, an error having been mndo through tho Cleric of Awards at Christchurch haring to appoint a substitutes during bis illness. This being so, tho case could not he heard at this sitting, and a special sitting is to bo liekl to bear them next month. For a breach of the Canterbury shearers’ award five shearers woro fined £2 each and costs, for refusing to shear after a majority of tho shearers' they were working with had decided by vote that, the sheep were in a fit condition to shear.

DUNEDIN, yesterday. "William Brown, single, aged 28 years, was killed this morning by a fall of earth at the Theological Collego excavation at tlio North-east Valley. 110 was thrown on a spade and his throat cut. Steven Whelan, married, aged 52 years, was also injured. Two others wore a little hurt.