GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 84, 11 April 1901, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

. AU.CKLA.NQ., 10th April . Mr. James Muir has been elected to j fill Mr., Justice Cooper's place on the Auckland Board, of Education. NELSON, 10th April. , At the annual meeting, oi 1 the Nelson Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Mr. James Morrison, the President, stated that for the year they liad been able to pay another £150, making £650 in all, towards the purchase of Richmond Park, so that in future they would stand rent free. Mr. Patton was elected President for next year. . • CHRISTCHURCH, 10th April. At the chess tournament ' to-day R. J. ! Barnes 'beat J. Wood, D. Forsyth beat J. O. Barnard, and W. E. Mason beat J. Mason. Forsyth is now leading by half a point, Barnes being second and Mason third. DUNEDIN, 10th April During the quarter ended 31st March 330 summonses were issued from the Magistrate's CoUrt for the v recovery of mining calls. The number in the last quarter of 1900 was 205. ' ' At a meeting of the Executive Committee appointed in cdmiection with the Royal visit, it was resolved to ask Oamaru and lnvercargill, through the respective Mayors, to erect arches in Dunedin, and to' make the reception a provincial one. The local bodies around the city are to be asked to arrange for bonfires. It .was resolved tp have a children's demonstration, in which children from the country will participate. ' [my telegbaph-t-own correspondent.] OAMARU, This Day. "The statement 1 which has^ obtained publicity that pilfering was being carried on at the Wreck of -the Ariadne has caused much indignation here. -The Mail 1 has the authority of the capiain of the ship, Lloyd's representative and the Collector of Customs, for saying that the , statement is absolutely untrue. The vessel has been carefully watched ever since her s stranding, by the police, the crew, and Lloyd's people.