TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9304, 18 November 1901, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

9t ___ . Tlie Fanny leaves Napier for Gisborne at 8.30 tliis evening with Southern mails. Auckland fruit-growers are forming a co-operative association. The total sum passed through the totalisator during the three days of the Auckland Racing Club's Spring Meeting at Ellerslie totalled £24,037. It has been decided at Wellington to give the surplus of the Royal visit fund, £17 15s, to the Hospital Trustees for the purchase of a, children's cot to be called the Princess May. Reihana, tc Ua, one of the Maori volunteers who attended the Commonwealth celebrations m Melbourne, died at Hastings the other day, the the result of a cold contracted m Australia. The payments made by the Queensland Railway Department m response to the claims put m by the passengers involved m the Jolimont collision total £14,000. The members of the Mount Lyell (Tas.) Stock Exchange drew Revenue m Tattersail's £1 sweep, and divided £13,500 among about 20. The foundation-stone of an old men's home at Ashburton, which will cost £5400, was laid on Thursday by the Hon. W. C. Walker, Minister for Education. George Wilkinson, who had his thigh broken at the Ellerslie races m the Hunt Club Steeplechase, only recently returned from South Africa, where he served m one of the New Zealand contingents with the rank of farrier-sergeant. It' has been decided that the championships held under the auspices of the Association of Caledonian Societies will 1 be competed for at the sports of the Oamaru Caledonian Society, which tke place on January, 1 and 2, 1902, and the sum of £400 has ■been voted for prizemoney.