NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8541, 22 July 1893, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS ASSOCLA.TIOV TEL-GKAMS.J AUCKLAND, July 21. The City Council have rescinded the resolution deducting holidays from the pay of the Council workmen.

Mr Cadman addresses the city electors on Monday. A warrant was issued to-day for the arrest of Frank Ryder Davis, clerk in the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria, on a charge of alleged dnbezzlement of £150. Intelligence has been received that the accused was arrested at Gisborne.

WELLINGTON, July 21. Mrs Reynolds, Sir Robert Stout, and Mr Hutcheson waited on the Minister for Education this afternoon, to bring under his notice the Dunedin Kindergarten schools, and to ask if he could see his way to grant some assistance from the education vote for their maintenance. The Minister expressed himself favourably, and promised to consult his colleagues and the Under-Secretary on the subject. At a meeting of the New Zealand Football Association to-night, it was decided to hold the annual tournament at Newton Park, Wellington, on Friday and Saturday, 25th and 26th August. Messrs A. Perrant (Auckland)' and L. O. Tripp (Wellington) were elected Vice-Presidents of the Association.

John D. Jones, an ex-Artilleryman, of New South Wales, was arrested here, charged with embezzling £50 belonging to the funds of the canteen of the Victoria Barracks, Sydney, and waa handed over to Constable Nolan, who arrived from Sydney last night, and the pair left by the Waihora this afternoon.

Captain Edwin predicts strong gales from the northward, with rain over most parts of the country, between noon on the 23rd and midnight

DUNEDIN, July2L -Amy Martin, aged six months, died suddenly to-day in her parents' house. At the inquest the mother stated that she had given the child Irish Moss. Dr. Stenhoose deprecated the use of patent medicines, many of which, he said, were of a dangeious character, and said their sale should be regulated by legislation. A verdict .was returned of *'Death from bronchitis."

At the annual meeting of the Gaelic Society the report showed a balance of £27. One-third of the income of the Society had been devoted to assisting those who required it.. At tha Cifr** Council, William MoFbee and Henry ; Holland were committed for trial for housebreaking.- '... " S Ju'y 21.

At ! the Police Court Richard Co-hrane, horse dealer, was remanded to C-Jt-steharch 09 a charge of obtaining £70 by false pretences in September last The Bluff Regatta Committee give a prize of -6100 for aa eight-oared race, open to tbe whole colony, at the new year. The weather, which has been wet and boisterous for a week, has now dewed.