LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 834, 7 March 1903, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

RICHARDSON' SCORES AT LAST, (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The Registrar of Electors was lined one shilling, without costs, by ARHutchison, S.M., to-day, for omitting to place the name of William Richardson on the electoral roll. Richardson was on the roll three years ago, but left for New South Wales. The. Registrar took his name off the roll. Richardson came back just prior to the recent election, to conduct a prohibition campaign, and the registrar did not reinstate him. Tiie case was defended, the registrar’s solicitor maintaining that Richardson’s domicile was in New, South Wales, but the magistrate held that Richardson’s name should have been reinstated on application. FURNITURE TRADE TROUBLE* AUCKLAND, last night. The furniture trade union of employers met today and endorsed the action of individual members who have locked workmen out. At the meeting the names of seventy-three who are locked out were countdd, and some employers were absent, so all were not accounted /or. The men state that altogether about one hundred men have, been locked out. At a meeting of unionists connected with the furniture trade, held to-day, it was decided to form a co-operative company to provide employment for all members of the union who have been locked out, and to place locallymade furniture on the local markets' HOKITIKA NEWS. HOKITIKA, last night. In the Supreme Court, in the case Ilislop versus tiie Minister of Mines, the Ohier Justice reserved judgment. In the ease Cameron v. the debenture holders of the Great Woodstock Mining Company, being a ease stated by, Warden Macfarlane, the question arose whether the plaintiff was a contractor under section 571 of the M niug Act. Judgment was reserved. A public presentation of a purse oi) sovereigns was made this evening to Mr E. J. Doreen, of the Lands and Survey Department, who is leaving to take up a responsible position in tho Land for Settlement Department in Transvaal Colony. BALLOT FOR LAND, AUCKLAND, last night. A Crown lands ballot was held today for 13,261 acres of land in tho Auckland district. For 45 sections there were 445 applicants, the number ranging from one to sixty for the most popular sections. A CHILD POISONED.

A' child twelve months old, named, Williams, died this morning, at Eden Terrace, the cause being supposed to be accidental poisoning. The inquest was adjourned to enable an analysis being made of the contents of thq stomach.

H.B. JOCKEY CLUB. NAPIER, last night. At a committee meeting of tha Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club to-day, a letter was read from Mr F. D. Luokie resigning his position as ’ secretary. The resignation was accepted with very great regret, and Mr Luckie was made life member of the Club, in recognition of his services. Air Luckie, who relinquished the secretaryship owing to ill-health, occupied the position for nearly a quarter of a century, and lie was also for a considerable time secretary to the New Zealand Racing Conference^ PRESS ASSOCIATION.

CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The annual meeting of the directors of the Press Association closed to-day Mr Fenwick, of the Otago Daily, Times, was elected Chairman, vice Mr Brett, Auckland Star. The gathering was the largest ever held, tiie press from Auckland to Invercargill being fully represented. The annual report showed that during the ycac there had been a large increase in the volume of cable business, tho number of words received being three hundred and ninety thousand .two hundred and thirty, being much in excess of any previous record. Tho Chairman referred in feeling terms tQ the death of Mr J, L. Wilson. The Directors of the Lyttelton Times entertained the visiting pressmen at dinner. INVERCARGILL NEWS,

INVERCARGILL, last night.. Out of a roll-number of 1241 voters 582 went to the poll to-day on the question of borrowing fifteen thousand pounds to erect a municipal building, including a hall to be used as a theatre., The proposal .was carried by fi!) voles. At the Supreme'' Court, Rosannah McCoy, charged with stealing .£2l and a cash box from under the mattrass of a bed in a country house, was acquitted. Her counsel made a vigorous onslaught on the Justices who refused bail to the girl, when there was not a tittle of evidence preferred by the police. His Honor said that it was wrong to lock her up for a, week in such The alleged offence was serious enough to warrant such a course. The trial of Dr. Pullarton, for alleged illegal practice, was gone on .with, but not finished. EPIDEMIC IN CHRISTCHURCH, CHRISTCHURCH, last night/ The Christchurch School, one "of the biggest, if not the largest, pubiio schools in the colony, has been closed on account of the prevalence of scarlatina and measles. There are lifty-seven eases of scarlatina • and forty-two of measles. This is the worst visitation ever experienced in Christchurch. .The other schools are not atfeeted. METHODIST CONFERENCE. The Methodist Conference rejected a proposal that the Conference of 1903 should elect a president and secretary for 1904. It was resolved that the question of ministerial character and efficiency should be considered in ministerial conference, and that all other questions be considered in conference of flic whole. In the

evening, a mission meeting was held at Durham street, Christchurch. The liev. W. Slade, late of Fiji, spoke of his mission work, with speeiai reference to the rivalry between Protestants and Catholics. He said the Catholic methods of competition filled him with indignation, and he considered it a crime to introduce religious strife into the midst of a race just emerging from savagery. lie had no doubt that the story of the Bibleburning was true, but it would not have been the work of natives, but of those who had burned Bibles and also men and women for centuries past, Mr Arnold, M.H.R., and Mr Lewis also spoke.

MEW PLYMOUTH, last night, ihe Grand Lodge of New Zealand f reemasons having decided to separate the provincial districts of Wellington and Taranaki, the Grand Superintendeney of Taranaki has beeir offered to R.W, Bro. F. P. Corkil 1 Past Grand .Warden; Taranaki has seven lodges.

CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Mr G. fenwick, of the Otago Daiiy rimes, was elected chainnan of the Press Association to-day. Ihe Methodist Conference passed a resolution of sympathy with the Union of the Congregational Church in Lngland on the death of Dr. Parker. It was decided that the next Conferee 6, be held at Pitt street Church, Auckland,

The monthly meeting of the Whataupoko Road Board yesterday lapsed for want of a quorum, and was adjourned until 3 p m. on Monday. A meeting of the committee of the Acclimatisation Sooiety will be held at 11 o’clock this morning