NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8929, 20 October 1894, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND.

(n»S ASSOCIATION CBUOIUHe.I ' AUCKLAND, October 19, At the annual meeting of the Auckland Caledonian Society, the report showed an increase of fourteen members during the year. The Committee was instructed to enter into further negotiations for amalga* tiou with the Burns Club. The Board of Education has decided on legal advice to rescind the resolutions imposing charges on teachora' residences, also the reductions on certain salaries, they being found to be illegal. The Chairman stated that there were nearly 400 pupils in the seventh standard in the district schools, some being nearly eighteen years of age, and considered that this must be put a stop to. The matter was deferred.

GISBORNE, October 19. Delaney of the Wellington " Trocadero" was arrested by Constable Eeddell at Tologa Bay yesterday afternoon. Hβ was travelling under the assumed name of Fraser. The police here have taken charge of five portmanteaux, the property of Delaney, which had been sent up by the Australia and rebooted for Auckland. Dai&uey intended joining the Pingadee afi Tologa Bay. The agricultural show is well attended, and there is lovely weather. WELLINGTON, October 19. Captain Clayton and Major Elliott, aide-de-camp and Private Secretary to the Governor, leave for Sydney by the Hauroto on a holiday tour.j The Government has offered Mrs Wallia, whose husband was murdered at the Top* house, the position of postmistress. The Trades Council has rejected a motion that the preseut time is inopportune for proposing an increase in Ministers' salaries* DI7NBDIK, October 19. The Dunedin staffs intend nominating Mr MoNickle for the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board, and he will command a large measure of support here. The local branch of the Knights; of Labour carried a resolution strongly approving of the action of members in opposing the Midland Railway Bill.