NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 549, 2 July 1909, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

# , (By Teleiresli.— Preaa Ajuoclatiou.)

\ THE COST OF EDUCATION. •A MINISTERIAL SUGGESTION CRITICISED. « ' Tlmaru, July 1. * ,Mr. v A, 8011, Secretary of tho South Canterbury Education Board, interviewed re* ' gardinfe 'the Hon. G. Fowlds's suggestion that i part of the cost of education should , 'be provided by local rating, said such a sys-, , , tern , would be very unpopular, and lead to differences* of results between, rich and poor district*. It would bo unfair as between people "with and without rateable property. | It;would bo especially ohiectionablo to Catholics, whoj are supporting their own schooh, and would bring about "passive r<* troubles. * ' '' RECEIVED, BUT PASSED ON. '- ■ , AN EMPLOYEE'S BONUS. Auckland, July 1. The engineer in Ralph's coal-mine, who received a bonus of nine guineas for loyalty to the mine-owjiers during the rcoent strike, handed the money to the Waikato Miners' union.. The union Jast night voted this money to the engineer recently dismissed at Huntly. , ! \ ," SU GRQG-SEI.LINC. '' l ' x Talhapa, July 1 'At tfae Ohakuco Magistrate's Court to-day, Kpbert G, Warnea was convicted of sly grpg-selling, and fined £30 and coats.' John Bibby , , on a similar charge, wo« fined £10 with ( coste , AUCKLAND DEATH-RATE. Auckland, July 1. The deaths in Auckland for th« sis months ending June 30 woro ono hundred lees than for the same period of last year. OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS. ' " ' ' Dunedln, July 1. -•A'meeting, attended by 60 or 70 students \ of' Qtago University, was held to-rught to ' consider the question of the formation of an officer? 1 training corps Colonel Smyth x ' and'others who spoke explained that the idea 6f t tlw promoters was that, by giving university men military training, it would ensuro that, ,as far as possible, officers of evory corps may, be men who had been trained intellectually as well as in military matters. It was stated that the Defence Department i had ■ promised to organise a training corps at each University College in the Dominion. The meotinß' unanimously decided to form a corps, and a largo number enrolled > both for the infantry and field hospital corps. OHINEMUHI AND WAIHI HOTELS. '] ' . J Walhl, Jnly 1. The ,hotels in the Ohinemuri electorate closed' last night, without anv serious deraWstration. In Waihi the police entered ' the promises at 10 o'clock, and customers left qnietly, largo crowds, gathered outside Kolly's and Filling's hotels, and songs, liases, end football war-cries were indulged in, J the crowd joining in the chorus. Everyone was good-humoured, and the police had , no trouble. , ' A 'CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIP. ■ ' Chrletohurch, July.l. Tte,Coiuioil of the N.Z.A.A A. hw- decided to IjoW a cross-country championship,! and the event is to bo given to tho Timaru Centre to conduct. It will 1 probably be held op September 2., SEPTIC CASES. \s .<..,, , Napier, July V ' During the hearing of a case in the $upr6m* Court to-day, jt was stated by medicAl witnesses, in oooncotwn with the death of a patient from puerperal septicaemia, that_ there had been an abnormal number of septw, cases dunng tho last twelve; months throughout New Zealand, and in many of tho cftsee it was impossible to tell how they 1 had been caused. ','/,> NEWB IN BRIEF. ' ' , „ Auckland, July 1. Th* Customs revenue for June totalled £38,708, egainst'£47,2B4 for the same month of last year. , f»,' 't i• -D e ," p,1 ™ outh i Ju iy iIho laranaki Petroleum Company's No 2 wejl is steadily improving. It has yielded ' an average of ten barrel* per day for tho past three weeks^ ',4, \ ' , "Napier, , July l. ' Eflturns show that %e rainfall in tt large par> of Hawke'e Bay for June was cs» tndmely light, that in Hastings, howg tbo ,loweet on record for many jears. , ( ,Tho Crown has decided not to proceed with the remaining charges against John Chno and Alice Maud Shepherd, of.having * unlawfully , disposed of the body of a child with intent to conceal it« birth, and the Crown Froeeontor will to-morrow enter a noUe pre-sequi Tho accused wero on Wednesday acquitted on the charge of child inufder. ,