LATE NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1560, 16 September 1905, Page 2

LATE NEW ZEALAND.

(Pec Press Association.) Auckland, last nighl

The price of potatoes to-day was easier, being from Ll2 10s to Ll 3 10s per ton. Westport, last night. Tbe plaeing on the estimates of only L 10.500 for the Wesfcpoit-Inangahuia junction railway is considered most disappointing in Westport, and a publio meeting is being called by the railway League for the purpose of .entering a strong protest against the paltry amount, and to pass resolutions requesting tho Minister to make better provision for the early construction of the portion of the railway advocated by placing a substantial additional vote on the supplementary estimates.

...■■Wellington, last night. Mr Martin Kennedy, of Wellington, has reoeived from the Pope the Knighthood Order oUSt/Gregory;- ’-ft Newsjhas boon received of the death in West®; Australia of William Sinclair, formerly of the New Zealand railway BerW' ■;■ Napier, last night. The following nominations have been reoeived for tho Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s spring meeting:—King .Edward Handicap: Cannie Cbiel, Clanohattan, Lyrist, Nobility, Asteroid, Mystification, Probable, Muhutonga, Whakawehi, Boris, Loss o' Gowrie, Melodeon, Boomerang, Gold Crown, Rose Madder, Heroism, Armistioe.