NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8928, 19 October 1894, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) . AUCKLAND, October 18. The Colonial. Sugar Company have reduced the price of su<*ar, 10s per ton. WELLINGTON, OotoW 18. The Gazette contains a formal notification of Mr Watson's appointment; as President of the Ba.uk of New Zealand. - .; Frederick Asherm—i, charged with presenting a valueless order on the Secretary of the Ouristehurch Working-, Men's Club, has been remanded there. "Neither the Defence ■ Minister nor the Commissioner of Police knows anything of the reported appearance of anarchists in the colony. A threatening letter recently received by the Minister of Labour- is thought to -have given rise to the report, which is generally discredited. '."■';" It is believed that -the scores of the Australian teams Ju the 'Intercolonial Parliamentary Rifie match are those of eight men. The total of the New Zealand teaj— : is therefore. 57Z, not 516. Tl-je uncertainty of the conditio—- is due to the hurried arrangements. .' ". .--•- - ' ■ '-'-'; '*' ' '" ■' DUN-DIN, October 18. •"... Emanuel Risworth was charged.with a breach of the Eaotories Act by employing a boy under eighteen years oh Saturday afternoon.' It was stated in mitigation that it was only a breach of the letter, bat not of the spirit of the Act. .The men employed took au hour for dinner between twelve and , one, and then returned and worked till two. A fine of 10s, with 25s 6d costs, was imposed The Education Board by the chairman's casting vote instructed Miss White to take up her duties as teacher at Moa Creek. The Committee refuse to receive her.