TELEGRAPHIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9820, 20 July 1900, Page 7

TELEGRAPHIC.

[per press association].

Wellington, Last night

The Education Board's finances are in so straightened a condition that it is proposed to reduce the amount of £3000 per annum now spent on the technical school by one-half. The Hatbor Board elected Mr H. Beauchamp chairman in place of Mr J. Hutcheson, who was not re-appointed recently. Mr G. lisher, member of the Board, refused to joiu in the euloyism passed by the otrnlr members on Mr Hutcheson, and said he was glad that gentleman's career was ended. Early last month Umfreville and Dodds's warehouse in Victoria street was broken into and an attempt made to blow open the safe, in which were a lot of gold and silver watches. In the Magistrate's Court to-day David Byrne and his wife and Barney Ryan, all is Johnson, were committed for trial on a charge of being concerned in the affair. Auckland, Last night. Efforts are being made here to form a syndicate to dredge the Ohinemuri river for gold. It is believed that there is sufficient tailings in the bed of the river, consisting of residue of the crushing of the Waihi Gold xMining Company piior to the discovery of the cyanide process, to justify the venture. Some tailings allowed to escape into the river in the early days are. said to contain 4dwt ol gold to the ton. Christchurch. Last night.

At the annual meeting of the P>ison Gaf3 Mission Bishop Julius said he considered the present prison system a bungle. It belonged to the nineteenth century, and when the twentieth came he hoped they would have a better one. Members of the mission would be glad to learn of the steps taken by the Government to classify juvenile offenders, and that action would make an enormous difference to industrial schools.

Arbor Day was celebrated in the greater portion of Canterbury province today, wheu good weather pi evaded. The members of the Christchurch Beautifying Association, reserves committee, City Council, and 100 boys from the public schools, went to the Cemetery Reserve, near Bottle Lake, and planted 100 trees. Altogether 1000 trees will be planted on the reserve. William White, who represented Sydenham in the House of Representatives from 1881 to 1886, and who for many years took a prominent part in local politics, died to-day.