LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10725, 23 June 1906, Page 3

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) GORE, this day. In view of the disposal at Gore on Saturday nest of the last- remaining block of the New Zealand Agricultural Company, once a huge holding, farmers from all parts of the colonv are inspecting sections on the historical Waiinca estate. The company originally had a stretch of 40 miles of country, extending from below Gore- to Luunsden, which is now nearlv all closely settled. - DUNEDIN, this day. Before Judge Cooper, John Outied, tho holder of an accommodation license in- the Waikouaiti "district, applied for a mandamus to compel the Licensing Committee to grant- a renewal of the license. 'Die committee, at the annual meeting, in giving etfect to the reduction poll, refused Outrcd's renewal. He claimed that tho Act- provides for the reduction. of publicans' licenses, and that to refuse an accommodation license under the circumstances was wrong in law. Mr Adams, for the committee, consented to the order, but the Judge said the point Avas so • important that, he would not make an ! order without argument. The matter will bo argued on Monday. (Special to Herald.) Mr Pinkerton suffered from some type of diabetes. He had fallen away considerably in weight since last sesion. On the day the news was received of Mr Seddon's death ho was in town. This upset him completely and" taking to his bud' throe days ago he lacked tlie strength to rally. He was in his seventieth year, and was a native of Kirkncwton, Scotland, at the parish school of which he received his education under Dr Hislop, former secretary for Education. He was a bootmaker by occupation and arrived in Dunedin in 1861. Ho took a keen interest in the labor question from , tho first, andowas an office bearer among the earliest unions formed here, besides being President for three years of the Otago Trades Council. Tho workers trusted him implicitly, and at the labor triumph in 1890 he headed tho poll for Dunedin City. Of six candidates at the .time, the three successful ones, Messrs I Pinkerton, Fish, and Hutichison, are, now

all dead. He was again returned at the head of tho poll in 1893, but was defeated three years later, and in February following was called to the Council. He was a, member of the Otago Harbor Board at the time of his death.