COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2753, 7 March 1910, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

NEW ZEALAND’S SECESSION FROAI AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association —Copyright SYDNEY, Alarch 5.

The Rev. AVools-Rutland. at the Methodist Conference, referring to New Zealand’s secession, said that in all probability, seeing that a large majority in the Dominion, favored the move, the general conference would consent to separation. He predicted that one result of the break away would probably be tlie union of all branches of the Methodist Church in New Zealand. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. The President of the Labor Council, replying to Air. Wade’s statement in regard to the Industrial Disputes Act, says that the policy of the Council always favored settling disputes by arbitration. The only difference was in regard to the method to be adopted. A PASTORAL APPOINTMENT. Air. Alallison, a well-known Sydney sheep-farmer, lias been selected as flockmaster for the Transvaal Government. ANOTHER VICTIM TO FIRE TRAGEDY. AIELBOUItNE, Alarch 5. The second of Day’s children is dead. AN ARBITRATIU-n CASE. The Federal Arbitration Court has fixed the 16tli inst. for hearing the Engine Drivers’ Association case. WIRELESS INSTALLATION. Sir James Alills lias supplied the postal administration with particulars of wireless installation of the steamer Alanuka. It is understood that- one of the tenders for the proposed wireless 'stations between / Sydney and Freeniantle is acceptable.

rniOUCHT BROKEN UP. ADELAIDE, March 5. Tlxe drought which has long existed in the north-western pastoral areas has broken up. Heavy rain is falling. DAMAGES AWARDED. (Received March 5, 5 p.m.) ' SYDNEY, March 5. G. Hayward has been awarded £3OO damages against tlie Kuponga- Coal and Goldmining Co., New Zealand, for wrongful dismissal. Stay of execution lias been granted on. a point of law.

THE RONALD HARPER- CASE. (Received March 7, 1.1-5 a.m.) MELBOURNE", March 6. Another development in the Ronald Harper ease has arisen. Summonse-s have been issued against Robert Haiper. William Harper, merchants, Walter Kemp, William Brocket, solicitors, Patrick Hill, and John Heatuley, on a charge of conspiring to defeat the law and to unjustly influence the verdict of the jury in favor of tlxe defendant in the ease.

BURIED IN TITE SNOW. Six hundred Japanese, Italians, and others were working rotary ploughs clearing a snowslido from' the. railway westwards of Rogers’ Pass, when a fresh snowslide killed fifty.