NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

.SAMARITAN. HOME TROUBLE. THE CHAIRMAN RESIGNS.' (BT TELEGRAM—TRESS ABSOC7ATIOH.) Christehurch, Novombor 12. Tho recent trouble at the Samaritan Home, Christehurch, as a result of which the matron and sub-matron wore reprimanded for failing to comply with the directio nof tho Chairman to hand over.a girl inmate to the To Oranga Homo authorities, came before the Board of Trustees again at a meeting held to-day. The Chairman (Mr-. H. B. Sorenson) resigned his position as .chairman for the reason that tho staff would not obey his instructions, and the resignation was accepted, Mr. P. Board being appointed to tho presidency. A liotico of motion that the- services of the matron and sub-matron should.be dispensed with was hold over for consideration at a special mooting. The matron in a letter to the Board expressed regret at not being ablo, for conscientious reasons, to carry out tile Chairman's instructions to hand the girl over.

SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. . . ; ' ' Christehurch,' November ;12. . Tho members of the scientific expedition '• which is to visit the Auckland and .Campbell Islands, were to have left the Bluff to-morrow in the Hinemoa, but, owing. to tho delaying of the Mararoa's departure from Wellington till this morning, it has been-decided,.'as there, are several members of the expedition aboard her, to delay the Hinemba's departure/ The Christehurch members' of the expedition left for tli'o South by the .'first express. Messrs. R. E: Aston (Wellington), R, Brown (Wahganui), and Field (Wellington), who. arrived. from tho North on Sunday, also left for. tho South this.morning. .The other Northern members of the expedition, who are on board' the Mararoa,. aro Mr,. J...5.-Tcnhnht. (Wanganui). Professor H. 1). Kirk (Wellington), and. Mr. G. V. Hudson (Wellington). ; '":. : , ■':. , AN EDUCATIONAL. REFORM. • \ | ~>. Auckland, November 12. For somo time past there has been a movement on foot amongst teachers with, the view of making.tho school rear in all public sphoola in the Dominion end at Christmas/ and. of holding Standard. VI. examinations annually in December.' This reform has -already- boon adopted in some of tho. southern.. education, districts, and the Auckland Headmasters'.Association are now inviting the co-operation of all the School Committees in the Auckland district'to use. their influence with:the Education Board to bring about a simuV reform here.

PRIMITIVE METHODIST SYNOD. Invercargill, November 12. ■ The Primitive Methodist Synod has t», solved that it is of opinion that the time if now 'opportune, for reconsidering tlio question of Methodist Union in New Zealand, and respectfully and unanimously' requests the Conference of 1903 to make the necessary arrangements for having the' question, submitted'to 1 the. ministers- for ; approval 1 or otherwise. .' '■'■ '■"''■'■;' ":' -CIUMINAI'.SESSIONS. . Auckland; November 12. ! The Suprome Court crimiiiai.sittirigs opened with thirty-seven prisoners involved rin thirty cases. Mr. Justice Denniston. said that ion the whole a substantial 'amount of crime ;was represented, in the charges, hut there wasna reason to assume that crime was on the in* crease in tho district. There was no serious charge, except in the case of a Maori woman 'charged with murdering her husband. A gratifying notawa's that-there Wore -only two sexual caßcs. - Those'werehgninst Maoris. ' Frank Christopher, alias-'Audoi-sbn, on a charge-of stealing a portmanteau frottv>;tha Auckland llailway Station, pleaded ' guilty, and, having- a> long list-of: previous convictions, received a sehtence of two years. John. HaazyY alias Connolly who pleaded guilty to obtaining moiley by false pretences at.-Papa-ktirn, also received two years. Iwa, a "Maori, charged with theft from a .duelling, was sentenced tb .'twelve months 1 ;" while < .another Maori, Tapioka Ruatara, charged with theft of ia. steer, was,, found not. guilty and; discharged; , : ' MISSING MAN. Glsaorne,, November If).' Mr. Li D. OlSullivan, representing '.till Government Life Insurance. Department, 1 has not been, heard,of 'since, Monday last, whenhe was seen by a Government examining doctor, who intended going into tho country with him'.. His absence has caused his friondß some anxiety;,

BAND CONTEST. Thames, November 12. The band contest was a great sitaccss. Some ' four thousand people were present. Auckland Battalioii won the A grade test selection, Thames Battalion coming second, Hauraki third, and llotonia'..fourth: B gtfido test was won by Hamilton, with Newton and Waikino next. '• The A grade quickstep waa won by HaUraki, Auckland Battalioii coming second, and Thames third. In B grade quickstep, Rotorua was first, Newton second, and' Hamilton third. .The compettolis Were very close. Lieut; Herd, of .Wellington, | was, tha musical judge. The aggregato prizes and cups',wire. Auckland.Battalion in A grade and Hamilton in B grade. *'

, THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.' ' .Watiganlit, November 12. The second deposit of £200 in the WcbbTressider sculling race.was put Up by Webb to-day. Tressidcr's money Will be deposited with the editor of the Sydney " Referee." .'■ :■'. A WOMAN DROWNED. ' ' •■■••.'■■ -'■'■' Alicklniid, November 13. A young woman, aged . about- twenty, who had been drinking on a scow-With three men last night, jumped overbo'ard l and was drowned. Later. From,inquiries, instituted by the police, it is supposed that tho- woman drowned hi the llarboUr last" night was cither Pollv' Henderson, who arrived recently from Wellington* and. has..been living in Grey Street, or another young woman known as Flora Dyer, who seems to havo been missing silico ■ last; evening from her usual place of abode; PAHIATUA FATALITY. (FROSr OUit OWN CORIU-SfONDEKT.) Pahiatua, November 12. Mr. J. Collison, of Haniua-, a resident of twenty years' standing in the district, died last night from injuries received 'when be was thrown from a bUggy a few days bark.