WELLINGTON NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8665, 14 December 1893, Page 5

WELLINGTON NOTES.

December 13. Ministers have been engaged in Cabinet meetings for the past two or three days, and according to vague hints thrown out many questions of. policy and much departmental business has been transacted, but Ministers have "nothing for publication." The Premier and Colonial Treasurer hope to get away by the Hinemoa for the South at midnight to-night, but there is a possibility of their not leaving until to-morrow. The Registrar of Electors for the colony informed mc to-day that the Registrars for the different electorates are now sending in tho electoral rolls as purged, all names of those who did not vote being struck off. In Wellington City some 3200 names were struck off, and in the suburbs 1050. -The registrars, are preparing, returns showing 'how '■ h_^''' A granted them last session. The Education Board here had a somewhat peculiar case to deal with to-day. One of the rules of the schools is tint on certain days each week the girls attending shall bring a piece ol calico for the purposes of a sewiug lesson. In or_e of the country schools a man named Morris refused to supply his daughter with calico, and the Head Master, consequently sent her home from the school, hia action being supported by the School Committee. Morris waited on the Board and complained of this, stating that his daughter learned sewing at home, and hinted at legal proceedings unless she was re-admitted to the school. The Board decided to consult their solicitor.