NgW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 8

NgW ZEALAND NEWS.

(BY TELEGBArn —MESS ASSOCIATION. 1, ■ ' » ; SCHOOL CADETS. COMPETITION SHIELD. PRESENTED. N Woodville, April 27. An.- interesting function- place, at tht District School this afternoon, "when the Jlev. Mr. Grant, of Dannevirke, on behali of tho'y Education .Board, presented. No.. J Company, Woodville School with ,th«r " Weekly Press" marksmen's competition shield for the North Island,: Addresses, wert delivered by the. Revs. Grant, Eccles,ana. Ginger, Mr. Ross, M:P.,Mr. Burnett (Mayor) 4 and, Mr. Stevenson (headmaster). .Mr. Ross very strongly criticised the Minister ' foi Education for not being pre'sent at such an event!.' . Tho Company won the shield with 736, points, the iioxt being Onehunga, with 725, while tho liishest in the. South Island' was 721." The shield is an exceedingly .fine pieca of work. . MILK INSPECTION IN CHRISTCHURCH; Christchuroh, April 27. , The Department of Agriculture gives notice' to tho .City. Council that after April 30 tho Department's • officers will cease to- register places in the city in which,milk is sold, or inspect: milk, sold- in such-places. This means that once milk for the city has. left tho dairy'farm, the Department's/control ends, and the Department of Public Health and tho City Council.will be responsible! for such ■ registration and inspection, r ' , . NEWS IN BRIEF. Napier, April 27. Arthur Doughty, nfho pleaded guilty in tho Court to-day to obtaining various small sums from tradespeople, was fined £20, in default three months' imprisonment. ' ; ' s Cisborno, April. 27. A farmer was fined £-5,' iii default' fourteen days' imprisonment, for cruelty to a cow. , . ■' .On Saturday night tho Assistant Harbourmaster was knocked off the wharf into the. river b yan unexpected blow from a drunken man, and narrowly escaped'contact with the woodwork. The culprit was fined £3. . VALUELESS CHEQUES. ... < Napier, April 27. At tho Magistrate's Court to-day a man of about" middle age, named Leonard' Lotter, pleaded guilty to obtaining money by means of valueless cheques from John: Martin. (Gisborne) £20, Walter Findlay (Napier) £10, Partridge, and Co. (Auckland) '£11, 195., Jasper Montgomery (Hamilton) £10, 'James M'Keown (Palmerston North) £10, Farmers' Co-operative Society (Wanganui) £3,' Daniel O'Brien (New! Plymouth)' £3. The accused was sentenced to twelves imprisonment on tho first, charge, and to-six. months on each of the' others, sentences to be concurrent. ■ V;. OTAGO EDUCATION STATISTICS. ■ :/ Dunctiln, April 27. The educational statistics for the quarter ended' March 31 show a' marked increase in the attendance in the Otago schools during the three months. 'The number of ! 'pupils on the'rolls at tho beginning of tho quarter was 18,054, and at the end of the. quarter 19,398. The average attendance, was 17,417, being 492 more ,th an the total for the/.'previous quarter, and 543 more than 'for;.the March', Quarter of. 1907.-• There were.'23l schools in operation in the district, employing 211 male and 304 female teachers," besides 23-teachers of needlework.- . TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE.' V Auckland, .April 27. Word was. received to-day ■by Inspector Cullcn tliat two prisoners named John Francis Usher and John , Johnson had escaped from the Waiotapu prison.i camp,- near Rotorua.. Both men. were undergoing a.sentence of five years'; imprisonment! No details ana ■to hand, as to. hoir the cscape was effected. ;; r NEAiiiNG his: jubilee. ;' ;j,': w ■ Auckland, April -27. Mr. John 1 ; .Bollard;' Mil 3 ., was elected .Chairman of ; the Avondale School Committee this evening for: the forty-seventh year in succession/. He hopes to reach his- jubilee.