News Distributors Inc. (NDI) and Teamsters Local 259 signed a new contract last night stopping a one-day strike which yesterday prevented delivery of The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor to newsstands in the greater Boston area.

The strike began Wednesday night when picketing members of the local union barred drivers from delivering the newspapers to the NDI terminal in Boston, forcing the drivers to return to New York, David Mullare, President of NDI, said yesterday.

Teamsters Local 259 represents the drivers who pick up these newspapers from NDI for distribution throughout areas of eastern Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire.

A spokesman for NDI said both sides have been negotiating a new contract since the expiration of the old contract on December 31, 1972. He refused to disclose the issues of the dispute.

Extra carriers were hired to distribute the Christian Science Monitor in Boston Wednesday, a spokesman for the newspaper said yesterday.

No other newspapers were affected by the strike.