LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9461, 24 June 1902, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, last night,

The Executive of the Licensed Victuallers' Association has requested the liotelkeepers to close their premises on Coronation Day from 9 till noon. Mr Wimberley, secretary of the Hot Lakes Steam Navigation Company, was found drowned in the Kotorua Lake yesterday morning. An inquest was being held to-day. The Coronation service issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury for use in the Anglican Churches throughout the Empire Ims been translated into Maori, and will be used in the Maori churches. The Natives are taking great interest in the matter.

A meeting of city householders was held to-night for the election of a school commitee, in place of the committee who resigned in April in order to show dissatisfaction with the action of the Board in connection with the appointment of two teachers, the committee holding they had not been properly consulted. The meeting passed a vote of thanks to the committee, and the majority of the seven seven who offered themselves were reelected.

A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held to-day to consider the proposal of the Governor to establish a home for Imperial naval and military veterans, to commemorate the Coronation and Boer war. A strong committee was appointed to gather information re cost, etc., and to report to a future meeting.

WELLINGTON, last night.

It had been the intention of the Citizens' Committee to have a Coronation ode, by some local poet, recited during the celebrations on Thursday next, and specimen odes were invited to be cent in. Thirteen were submitted to a sub-committee, but that committee is of opinion that none of them are quite suitable. On the sth inst. two railway platelayers, while working at Petone, had an argument about the Boer war, after which one of them was removed to the hospital for treatment. He was suffering from a serious scaip wound inflicted by an iron tool. The result was that Leonard Phillips was to-day committed for trial on a charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Dennis Sullivan. There has lately been a considerable shortage of the domestic coal supply. Wellington dealers assert that the principal cause of this is that large shipments are being sent away for the warships on the China station. During the last few weeks 15,000 tons have been shipped in this way. It is stated, on the other hand, that the present scarcity is due to the recent bad weather having prevented steamers getting in and out of Westport expeditiously.

DUNEDIN, last night. The memorial to Captain .John A. Harvey, of the Fourth Contingent, who was killed while leading his men at Lenimer's Hill, Ottoshoop, on August 16, 1900, was unveiled at the Boys' High School to-day by Sir J. G. Ward, before a large and representative attendance. Captain Harvey was a pupil of the school. The rector mentioned that it was intended to erect a marble monument to the memory of the old boys who had died at the front, as soon as they got a complete list of the names.

The licensed victuallers, at their meeting to-day, resolved to recommend hotelkeepers to close their hotel bars between 9 and 11 on Coronation morning. They desire it to be understood that the decision is not the result of any outside pressure. William Bishop, engineer of the Champion dredge at Beaumont, was caught in the machinery of the dredge on Friday, and died yesterday from the effect of the injuries. The death is announced of Dr J. Gibson Smith, of Balclutha.