LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S NEW ZEALAND NEWS

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, hist night. The British ship Valea, of Liverpool, from Iquiquc to Sydney, called off Papeete, Tahiti, on Mareln 24th, with small pox and typhoid amongst the crew. Two men died there and were burned at sea Another man was in a. critical state! The pilot returned to Papeete, and the ship was not allowed to enter the port. Tho master asked for medical assistanc e «a-nd provisions, but the wind being conti:Ui?#4. l £«^^.L I «d to sail from the Island. The Valca was W da ys out ° n tli^'i^--age wlttMi she calledl^aiJret^f' ''' Holoman Hunt's picture, "Light of the World," which arrived from Sydney yesi terday iu charge of Mr M. Jost, is now on exhibition in the Municipal Ait Gallery. It was inspected by a large number of people to-day. The picture will be on exhibition for a. week, and will then be taken South. John .McDonald, a resident of Thames, sailmaker, was M'aiting for a tram car at Remuera in company with his son, and without any warning: ho fell to the ground and expired instantly. He suffered from heart disease. HAWERA, last night. The Taranaki bowling tournament was a splendid success. The teams taking part were Opunake and Piluiina (combined), Manaia, Eltham, Stratford, New Plymouth, Hawera (three teams). New Plymouth, Fitzroy. and Hawera went through with five wins and one loss each. In the play off New Plpmouth won the shield. The tournament i.s to be an an. uual affair. WANGANUI, last night. A fire occurred at Taylorville, across tho river, about 8 o'clock this evening, and resulted in the destruction of shops occupied by" Studley, bootmaker, and Philpott, grocer. Studley's stock was insured for £150 in the Liverpool, London, and Globe, and for £150 in the New Zealand Office. Philpott's stock, which was valued at £800, was insured for £400 in the Royal Exchange. The buildings, which were owned by Mrs Gordon, were insured for £300 in the South British. WELLINGTON, last night. Mr P. J. O'Regan has consented to contest the mayoralty of Onslow! An endeavor in being made to form a federation of the Painters' Unions of the colony. With this object a conference of delegates is to sit in Wellington next Tuesday. The transactions of the Public Trust Office for the year just closed show the enormous total of over' £2,soo,ooo. The Rev. R. Cofi%, vicar of St. Marks hag been confined to bed 1 for some days, suffering from the effects of ptomaine poisoning. His condition is not considered serious. . The Miramar Company, Ltd., which owns ii large area at Miramar, has decided to utilise 50 acres for the purpose of a park, which will be laid out in cricket and football grounds, and tennis courts, and will include a cycle track, water chute, maizes, merry-go-roundfl for elu'ldren, a comfortable tea 'kiosk, and grand, stand for the accommodation ; of spectators. The Wellington Tennis Association's Easter tournament opened on the Brougham Hill courts, llie men's championship doubles wag won by A. Young, Thomdon, and F. M. B. Fisher, Wellington, wlio- beat G. Smythe and H. M. Gore, Thomdon, 9 — 7. 1 The football season, was opened on Saturday by several club matches played on Athletic Park. As is usuaj at the opening of the season, the players were not iii form, and the games were little more than exercise contests. Poneke beat Napier City by 2*3 to nil, Wellington beat Christchurch by 6 to nil, Athletic (17) beat Waiptuui (3). ' At the annual conference of the New Zealand Referees' Association (Rugby game) there were present: — Mesurs Isaacs, president; Warden, vice-presi-dent; llobb, hon secretary, and the following delegates : — Auckland, Mackie'; Taranaki, Griffichs ; Waiigauui, Simpson ; Manawatu, Manning ; Wellington, Evan ; Hastings, Stubbs ; Nelson, Oldershaw ; Canterbury, Evans; Otago, Wilson. The President said the leading members of the "All Black team" were of opinion that die referees in New Zealand had little to learn from their confreres at Home. The laws of die game were discussed, and a uuiform interpretation of each arrived at, whifh it is hoped' will bring about the desire and purpose of the Conference. It was decided that next aiinual meeting be held at Dunedin. .Resolutions were pass, ed, deciding to ask the New Zealand Rugby Union to 'give the Association reiresentation on the Appeal Council, mid to recommend local unions to pats a bylaw providing for referees being 'appointed by the Referees' Association. /A, sad boating fatality occurred in the harbor tliis morning. A gig belonging to H.M. Pegasus left the warship shortly after ten, under charge of Steward Sweetmote, for the purpose of going to Watermen's Steps. The other occupants of the gig , were : Bunker (an A.8.), Howard, Watts, Richards, and Robert Spinner, making a crew of six. A stiff > northwest wind was blowing at the time, and the men-o'-waremen took advantage to set sail for shoreward. When the boat had covered a littlo more than half the : distance she jibed and capsized. The men j scrambled on the bottom of the gig, but she sank beneath them, and they were left, struggling in rough water. Some of them managed to support themselves with oars and loose fittings, but two of them, being good swimmers, were able to keep themselves afloat until rescued. Th e accident was witnessed on board the Pegasus, also by some hundreds of people from the shore,,, as well as ferry steamers. Within two minutes from the time the gig capsized a cutter was lowered from the Pegasus and sent off to the scene of tli© accident. The steamer Admiral was coming in from Karaka Bay at the time, and was more than 300 yards away when the capsize occurred. Captain Williams 6ent her full speed J to the spot where the men were, and she and the cutter from the Pegifeus succeeded \a rescuing live of "them. The ferry steamers Duchess and Duco v and the Government steamer Janie Seddon ulso bore down to render assistance if necessary. Just before the Admiral reached the scene of the mishap Bunker tlu»w up his arms and disappeared. With the assistance of passengers tho crew hauled Sweetmore and his companion on board. Bunker was the ouly man drowned. NELSON, last night. The third biennial moveable committee of tho New Zealand branch of the 1.0.0.F.jM.U., met this morning, when there was. a large attendance of delegates. Grandmaster D. Loaeby, in his addreesj spoke of the pleasure of meeting in sunny Nelson, where the first Oddfellows' lodge in New Zealand was' established in. 1842, with nine Oddfellows, two of whom sub. gequcntly lost their lives in the Wuirau maccaeiv. From that beginning the society had in December, 1904. 18,021 members and a. capital of £44,873. The expenditure on sick, funeral, and other benefits was £4783. Throughout the world they numbered over a million, with invested capital of £12,000000, and an annual income of £2,000,000, the amount expended in benefits approaching on© and a. iiulf millions. He said' there was much to do to keep the Order in the front rank of friendly societies, and one important question to toe considered by this confer, euce was increasing the funeral Tjenetits. He alluded to Wanganui joining the New Zealand branch, and hoped all South Island districts would follow' Buit shortly and form a. united New Zealand. He referred to the deutU of Bro. Jsmies Thomas, and expressed indebtedness, to the officers and brothers, and trusted that all their deliberations would be carried out iu accord witb. theiv motto,, "F.vkudsliip, love, and truth." The Grandmaster was thaiiked for hi6 address*. Tho directors' report was read and adopted as a whole. HOKITIKA. last night. Mr G. R. Rudkin, (own clerk, and secretary of the Kuniara Racing Club, suddenly expired iu the stewards' room of the Kumara racecourse- shortly before the commencement of the third race. Deceased was one of tho oldest and most respected citizens <>f the district. He leaves a- wife and eleven children. An inquest- will be held to-morrow mowing. CHRISTCHURCH. last night. The annual conference of the Trades and Labor Councils of New Zealand opened on Saturday. Mr W. Hood, Duiicdin, was elected president. Mr D. McLaren (Wellington) submitted tho follow ing resolution, which he stated had been passed by the Wellington Trades and Labor Council :— "That this Council has no confidence in the Arbitration Court as at present constituted, and that it be a recommendation to the Conference that it should consider the matter." Mr McLaren then moved — "That the resolution be referred to the Order Paper Committee with instructions to include it in the order paper." Speaking 1 to the motion, he said- he considered that before the Conference disbanded it ought to go into committee aud very seriously consider tho responsibility placed on the shoulders of the whole of the delegates in having to face, the situation which had arisen through, the unsatisfactory administration of the Arbitration Act. The motion was agreed to. and the Conference adjourned till Tuesday. DUNEDIN, last night. The New Zealand Young Men's Presby. terian Bible Gass Union laid magnificent weather for their camp at Taliuua Park on Saturday, and to-day. Sports on

Saturday resulted iu the champion banner being earned utt by St. Peter's, Clnistehurch, with a score of 23 poinre, Roslyra being second with 20 points. The President's gold medal for 880 yards w>i*> won by a representative of >St. Peter's, Clnistcliurcli, and the gold medal for 220 yards by A. Bell, South Dunedin.