GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 30th May.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 128, 31 May 1900, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 30th May.

The adjourned inquest touching the death of Alfred Jiunes Boonstra, wlio died at the Hospital last IViday, was continued to-day. Constable Piunerty, who is charged with having assaulted Boonstra by kicking him so as to cause him actual bodily harm, was in attendance. The depositions of the deceased stating thai Pinner ty kicked him were supported by the evidence of deceased's companion, Masleni. Other evidence went to show that deceased was walking about apparently all right some time after the assault was said to have been committed. The defence is understood to be an absolute denial. CHRISTCHURCH, 30th May. A cable from Sydney stales that Messrs. Wark aud Burland's collie Armsbearer won three first and the championship prizes at the show of the New South Wales Kennel Club. In consequence of the high prices now ruling for fat sheep the local butchers have decided to raise the price of mutton all round D 3' id per lb. A motion was carried at a meeting of the Education Board to-day " That this Board is of opinion that clauses 6 and 7 of the School Attendance Act should contain a Biiuimuai penalty of a substantial amount, as the usual fine oi from Is to 2s fails to induce a better attendance of truant children, aud the Board's efforts to provide education for all children iv its district are much hampered in. consequence." WAKAPUAKA, This Day. Mr. A. D. Webster, of the Eastern Extension Cable Company's staff, who has been transferred to Singapore, was presented last night with a suitable memento from his fellow-officers here. DUN-i^mN, This Day. Mr. Thomas B. Fairbairn, who has been Acting-Town Clerk for some months, was last night appointed to the permanent position. The Workers' Political " Committee last night passed a resolution expressing thorough confidence in Mr. Barclay, as representative in Parliament, and adding that it has no- sympathy with the attack made on him in the pre^s, and regards such attack as unjustifiable. The resolution is in connection with, the attack on the junior member for alleged pro-Boer proclivities, which he strenuously denied.