NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1038, 3 November 1903, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association.) FEILDING, last night.

A new Presbyterian Church, seating 300, was opened yesterday. There were crowded ’congregations, morning and evening. The sermons were preached by Dm Erwin, of ,Christchurch. The collections amounted to over £4O. STRATFORD, last night.

Considerable changes in journalistic circles in Taranaki are announced. The Stratford Post and Settler has; been sold to a company who amalgamate the two papers. .The issue of the Post to-night is under the editorship of Mr Cecil Thornton, late of Canterbury. Mr J. H. Clayton;! the retiring proprietor of the Post, - has purchased the Daily News,’of New Plymouth, and takes potsessionUon Saturday next. Mr Reginald Alexander, late editor of the Settlor, is entering journalism in Hawke’s Bay. WELLINIiTUN, last night.

Edith Caroline Sarah Price, a single woman, aged 31, canvasser for a Wellington botanical ■ chemist, was found dead in bed at her lodgings, Nelson street,i shortly before eight this morning. She was subject to fits. She was in high spirits when jslte retired at, 9.30 last ■•night. An inquest ,is to bo held. CHRISTCHURCH, fast night.

Entries for the Canterbury Metropbht'an Show next week constitute a new record for the Association, there being about 20 more entries of stock than at the Jubilee Show three years ago, while there is a very large increase of implements, machinery, eta* In stock the principal increase is in horses and cattle, the former being over 100 more than last year. Sheep show a falling-off of 100 entries, including entries Irom several prominent merino, breeders in the South, whose flocks were probably affected bv the big snowstorm in July. DUNEDIN, last night.

H, C, Murray-, of the Dunedin Harriers, lowered the Australasian tenmile record on Saturday,- his time ■being 50 min. 10 see., or 40 secs, under the record. John Fredk, Noies has been sentenced to a month’s hardMabor lor making a false declaration under the 'Pensions Act. He swore that lve had no money in the hank when he had £GO, Alexander McGiilan, charged .with assisting, the licensee of the Wallacctown Hotel to commit a 'breach of the Licensing Act by, consuming liquor on the premises, on Sunday, was fined £2 and costs..