LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9644, 20 January 1903, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

— _ +. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. The National Dairy Association lias made arrangements with the Union S.S. Company to charge freight (exclusive of milage or lighterage at port of shipment) at the rate of 10s per ton gross weight on all butter and cheese from noii-gmding coastal ports to London sleuniers at Wet lington. The Railway Department has decided to abandon Sunday excursions ■to the head of Lake Wakatipu. Excursion tickets will now be made available for return until Tuesda3 r s, and a steamer will run to the head of the lake on Mondays. The subsidised steamer Sussex is leaving to-morrow for Durban and Capetown. She will take a- full shipment of frozen meat, but the general cargo holds will only contain 50 tons of sundries. It will be necessary to ballast the ship with coal m the compartments before she puts to sea. A great part of the meat has Been purchased for shipment by local agents on behalf of South African firms who placed orders m advance. The three-year-old son of Sydney Weatherley, a settler at llakamri, fell into .a bucket of hot milk on Saturday; He died whilst being conveyed to the hospital. The erection of a new lighthouse at Cape Campbell is to be proceeded with at an early date. The present structure, wbicli has seen its best days, will be replaced by one of modern design, 64ft high. A conference of delegates from local bodies decided on Wednesday as the day for the half-holiday m Wellington city and suburbs. Henry Stuart and diaries Lungstonc were to-day committed for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud Adam Sargent. It is alleged that on the representation of having obtained an order for 80,000 of the patent bricks which Langstone said' he had invented, £150 was obtained, from Sargent to carry on the manufacture, on the understanding that the latter would be given a partnership. The brick was alleged to be worthless, and no order had been received. The following grants have been authorised by the Government for improvements to tourist resorts: — Extension' of road along the shove of Lake Wakatipu, £500 ; improving park at Queenstown, £500 ; completion of Pukaki-Mount Cook deviation road, £500; improving Tc Aroha baths. £500. Tenders are being called for the erection of a 14-roomed tourist accommodation house nwu* Wuimaugu geyser. Improvements will also be ef: fected at Orukikaraka, and the present Maori canoe service on the Waikato river will be replaced by n proper ferry. OHRISTCHURCH. last night. The New Zealand Bowling Association's annual tournament was opened to-day with the rink match, for which 34 rinks entered. The weather was five, and the greens playing very keenly; several of the Southern rinks were unexpectedly deft'titeri. tin*, greens being too keen for tl&in. Victoria, Dunedui. Invereargill, Gore, lloslyn, and Green Island are left m the fourth round. DUNEDIN, last night. During the week ended to-day, returns have been reported from 49 dredges, the total yield being 12580z 6dwt 3gr. or an average of 250« per dredge. Additional returns are : Upper Waipori 720z, Otago IT. 5807. lOdwt, Knnriru 340z sdwt 6gr, Island Brook 270z, 4dwt, Muddy' Creek 250z, Enfield 180/. 7dwt, Happy Valley 15oz 16dwt, Lawrence 15oz 2dwt, Reliance 13oa, Waitahuna lOoz 7d\vt.