NEW ZEALAND

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 463, 4 July 1902, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND

(Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, lash night. W liiam Higgins-Au, a butcher, was fined lOs and costs for exposing, for sale diseased meat. A second information under the city bylaws was dismissed.

Two men, claiming to he bona fide travellers, thereby obtaining drink, were fined 40s and costs for giving false information to publicans. lIAWERA, last night. Constable Dan Ryan was last- night presented by the Mayor, on behalf of Mrs Watson and the Ada Delroy Company, with an illuminated address and gold medal, in recogn tion of the bravery displayed by him on the occasion of the Oriental Hotel fire, Wellington, at the end of last year. DUNEDIN, last night. J. 11. Hancock and Robert Rutherford, storekeepers, of South Dunedin, were fined £2 and costs 30s respectively for having deficient weights in their possession. It was not contended by the Crown Prosecutor that the men were deliberately guilty of fraud. GREYMOUTH, last night. The Dobson No. 2 coal bore struck coal at 1140 feet. It is in two feet, and is still going through coal. A young lad named Richards fell off the wharf this morning into the river. A bystander named Scott jumped off the wharf and rescued the lad.

TROOPERS ROBBED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The returned troopers of the Seventh Cont ngent complain that when their kits were received on return from Sonnies- Island, Wellington, pract rally everything they had collected in the way of curios was missing. One man says he alone had fifteen pounds taken, including Kruger coins, stamps, and feathers, and says every mortal tiling in the way of curios belonging to the men, to the value of hundreds of pounds, disappeared. The troopers complained to the Defence Department and were informed that an enquiry would he held. They were asked to send a list of tilings missing. The Wellington troopers took their curios ashore, but the others could not do so, Other troopers confirm this statement.

FARMERS’ UNION. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, last night. The Conference oE the Farmers Uu on opened here this morning. Mr Kirkbride, the retiring President, in the course of his inaugural address urged that if the Union was to be useful it must deal with farmers’ politics. They did not want party politics, but they must discuss every question that affected their interests. They should have no shyness in dealing with such questions as tariff, nor should they be deterred by cries of “No politics’’ from formulating a platform on which they, could all take a stand, but they had no desjre to rule the roost. All they wanted was fair play, but they should see that burdens were not placed onj 'their shoulders that others should assist in carrying, and also that the tenure of their land was nut disturbed. It should also endeavor to minimise the distance between the consumer and the farmer, and be alert to secure new markets and keep a hold on present ones, It was also for the Union to consider whether the continuance of increase of the national debt would not inevitably mean heavier taxation in tiie near future.

Tiie Chairman, amid applause, expilgssed the pleasure of the Confereuedi at the recovery of the King, and said that thanks were due to Almighty God for such a result of 'the illness.