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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 64, 19 March 1901, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph —Press Association. Christchurch, last night. An old settler, Dr. Theric Dohrinau, was thrown from a drag at Carlton on Saturday and killed almost instantly. Dunedin, last night. Free tram rides are to be given by the citizens on Thursday to mark the taking - over of the trams. As a further way of celebrating the taking over of the trams, the Mayor also promises that all traffic be entirely suspended next Sunday, so that all the employees may have a holiday. The Government have agreed to a grant of £2OOO for the enlargement of the Dunedin Technical School and the erection of an electrical plant. Oainaru, last night. Sailed, yesterday, barque Tercera, for the Cape, with a cargo of wheat, oats, and building stone. Auckland, last night. ' The Thames Miners’ Industrial Union have filed a reference for settlement which asks that the men recently discharged by the Waihi Company be reinstated, and that the wages and conditions of labor to managers of the various companies be adopted throughout the district. The following companies have been made parties to the proceedings: Waihi Union, Waihi, Waihi Gladstone, Waihi Consolidated, Waihi Extended, Waihi South, Waihi Grand Junction, Waihi Consols. It is probable that all the mining companies in the district will be included. To clause 9 has been added a request that union men discharged by the Waihi Goldmining Company in February be reinstated, and paid compensation for the time lost, this to include both men and battery hands. Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, left for New Plymouth yesterday. The Chief Justice, Sir Bobert Stout, left for Wellington by the Ngapuhi yesterday. Cucksey represents the Amateur Athletic Cycling Club at Christchurch, Keynolds representing the Cycling Club. The Kawhia Natives are asking the Government to take over their lands, and lease them on their behalf. At the inquest on the fire at the Geyser Hotel, Whakarewarewa, a verdict of arson against some person unknown was returned. Dr Mason, accompanied by Dr Pomare, visited the Eotorua Natives on Saturday to talk over the sanitation of the kiangas. Dr Mason introduced Dr Pomare'as a Native Health Officer of the colony, whose duties would be to instruct the Natives in sanitary laws, and to show how fever and consumption were caused. Dr Mason then inspected the drainage system.

The committee of the Auckland Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club unanimously decided to send E. H. Cucksey, of Christchurch, to represent the Club in the amateur bicycle events and league championships. W. Reynolds also goes South to compete in the amateur events and represent the Auckland Cycling Club. Messrs C. G. McCormick and F. J. Ohlson, acting on a resolution of the management, carried for the winding-up meeting of the New Zealand Cyclists’ Alliance, have purchased a handsome trophy for competition among the amateur cyclists of the colony. The trophy cost 22 guineas, and takes the form of a silver punchbowl, of very chaste design. It will be forwarded to the League of New Zea land Wheelmen at Christchurch, and will be known as the New Zealand Cyclists’ Alliance Challenge Trophy. The conditions provide that it shall be for amateur cyclists, and competed for annually. The trophy will be held from year to year by the rider scoring the greatest number of wins in the amateur events at the annual championship under the League. The Chief Justice reserved his decision in the case of the Captain Cook Brewery v. Ryan. At the Rifle Association meeting the Nursery Match was won by W. Morrison, Waihi, 63, and the Tyro Handicap by Lieutenant Strange, of Piako. Lieutenant Cox and Mr J. G. Buchanan left yesterday for the Rifle Association meeting at Wanganui. The following marksmen left by the Rotoiti to-day : Captain Skinner, Lieutenant Krctschman, Privates Carson, McKee, and Tobin, Sergeants Maingay, Messrs J. D. Webster, Newall, and Henderson. Both the Akarana Rifle Club and the Victoria Rifles enter for the Teams Match. Wellington, last night. Tryphena Dyer, aged 21, has died at Otaki Hospital of gasfcro-enteritis, believed to have been caused by eating brawn. Four witnesses supoenaed by the New Zealand Police Department left for Sydney by the Moana on Saturday night to give evidence in the Conway case. They are C. M. Brooke, chemist, Christchurch; A, -G. Winstone, one of bis employees ; Dennis Fogarty, hotelkeeper, Christchurch; and Constable Trehey, of Sumner. The Medical Board appointed to examine returned invalids has advised the Government that men who have suffered from enteric should not be allowed to return to the front. The Premier, speaking at an entertainment to the returned troopers on Saturday night, said, as head of the Government, he had made up his mind that, no matter what happened, he was prepared to back up the Mother Land by sending the necessary number of troops to maintain the prestige of the colony and support the Empire. The appeal Court opened to-day. In the case of the Solicitor-General versus Wallace : This was an application by the Solicitor-General to file a further affidavit in the case of the reserve vested in the B“shop of Wellington and others as trustees for the purpose of a Maori school. The Solicitor-General applied to file further documents showing objections by Natives concerned to the decree made in the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Edwards. The application was opposed, but the Court allowed it on the ground that the matters were of public interest, and that the question should be finally disposed of on all the available evidence. The members of the First Contingent have formed an association, with a view to beeping in touch. They will celebrate their departure for . South Africa by a dinner in Wellington on the 21st October next, and thereafter hold, annual reunion at the chief provincial towns in rotation. The Premier, in answer to a deputation from the City Council, said Ministers had come to a fixed determination not to subsidise local bodies’ expenditure on the reception of the Duke of Cornwall, and nothing had arisen to induce them to alter their decision.

During the season the Mandeville and Bangiora Boad Board purchased 14,262£ dozen of small birds’ eggs and heads at a cost of .£ll9 17s Id. “ There’s plenty of vigour left in the old man yet,” exclaimed Mr Seddon breezily, as he acknowledged the hearty vote of thanks from a deputation of workers on Saturday afternoon at Wellington,