NEW ZEALAND.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2625, 30 October 1894, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

A man named Lorimer committed suicide at Nelson by taking cyanide of potassium. — A half caste woman poisoned herself at Auckland by eating 70 matcher"*. — The Auckland Education Board favor the establishment of a court of appeal for teachers.— The Rev. J. C Andrews was fined £20 and Coßt3 at Wellington for failing to destroy rabbits. — The Kaiapoi Wool len Company have declared a dividend of 8 per cent. — A boarding house keeper at Cheviot was fined £25 and £5 respectively oa two charges of sly grog selling. — The recent band contest resulted in a profit of £16.— Tbe annual report of ih? Manawatu Farmers' Co-operative Association showß tbat the business is Steadily increasing. — The "Wellington Acclimatisation Society has distributed about half a million young trout this season.— A Festival Choral Sooiety has been formed in Wellington for productions on a large scale. Already 350 members have joined. — A man named Baker died at Napier from injuries reoeived through falling from the window of an hotel. — A school teapber named Martin, was drowned at Wellington on Sunday. — The pn'za money in the recent band oontest will not be paid over till a deoision of the Supreme Court is received.