NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7870, 22 May 1891, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRSS3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.)

AUC!BLLANI>, May 21. The Auckland Fibre Company have declared a dividend of 5 per cent. There is a probability that the cutter Evening Star will be got off the reef on which she struck in Rangitoto Channel, though the vsssel has been considerably injured. She is still in the same position as when she struck.

WELLINGTON, May 21. Captain Veal, of Port Chalmers, who piloted the barque Bonny Doon from Dunedin, was knocked over by a horse attached to a dray on the wharf this afternoon. One of the wheels of the vehicle passed over his left leg, breaking it in two places. He was taken to the hospital, where the injured limb was attended to.

The total cost of the Harbor Board's 30-ton crane was £3361. Hia Excellency the Governor is to be asked to lay the foundation stone of the Harbor Board's new offices.

The amount available for distribution amongßt the creditors of the Rangitikei Fibre Company is only sufficient to pay a dividend ot 2s 6d in £.

At a stock salo at Masterton prices for sheep ruled higher than any previously obtained.

Negotiations for the purchase of the Palmerston North Gasworks by a Wellington syndicate are almost completed.

TIMARU, May 21. A young man named Jones was remanded till Tuesday oa a charge of burglariously entering the Royal Hotel on Monday night and stealing from the different bedrooms a watch and money. He was formerly a servant at the hotel.

The moderates won the Raukapuka election by a 10 to 7 average. DUXEDIN, May 21. The Education Board carried a resolution forbidding teachers taking part in school elections, and agreed to intimate to the Minister that the School Committees Election Act was generally defective except that it abolished the cumulative vote.

At the annual meeting of the Kindergarten Association the report stated that 118 children had been entered on the roll, 45 of whom had passed on to other schools or left the district. The average attendance had been 40. Bishop Sutter, of Nelson, was elected an honorary member.