GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 81, 5 April 1906, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

o [I'BESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 4th April. Chief-Inspector Petric, in his report on the Auckland schools for the year 1905, says: — After considerable experience of the new syllabus, there exists hmong teachers a very geneial feeling j 1 hat it is still over-loaded. It would be j premature to express a decided opinion, j Walter -'Jchoneld, an ex-attendant aH Auckland Mental Hospital, was fined £5 j with cobts, by the Stipendiary Magis- : l.rate to-day for assaulting a lunatic palient. The evidence showed that delendant during a struggle used unnecessary violence, giving the patient two black eyes>. The case- was brought at tho instance of Dr. Beattie, the superintendent. The President and Secretary of tho Auckland Railway League had a conlerence with the Hon. James Carroll today with reference 10 tho Gisborne-East Ooast railway. Mr. Can oil expressed his tense of the importance of tho railway, Mid stated that he would do all he could It) help the project. " • This Day. The Auckland Customs receipts foi the financial yfear just closed were £743,552, m increase of £10,728 on the previous year, and a reqord for this port. \tAD?AWA, 4th April. Con Boyle has been arrested on a. charge of the manslaughter of Mary Jano Daniel, who was killed by a buggy accident at To Aute Hill on the 24th March. Boyle was driving the buggy. STRATFORD, 4th April. The' Stratford. Acclimatisation Society to-day prosecntcd a young man for kiliing a wild "duck, and beang unlawfully in possession of it during the close season. The Magistrate fined accused 20s im the first charge, the- society withdrawing the second charge, and not pressing for a, heavy penalty, as the action was meant as a warning to others. CHRISTCHURCH; 4th April., The Lytteltou Harbour Board at its meeting to-day resolved to complain to Ihe Acting-Minister for Railways about iJie shortage of trucks at the port. It was also resolved to remove the headquarters of the Board from Clrristchmch Lo Lyttelton. The Education Board yesterday decided to appoint an agricultural instructor at £300 ' a year. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones informed the Chairman oE the Midland Railway Committee to-day that specifications and ten-der-forms for the Summit tunnel are almost completed, and will, he thinks, be finished in timo to be sent to London by the outgoing 'Frisco mail. Tenders will be advertised at Home and in the colony. The date for closing tenders wiil be some time in June. During the quarter ending 31st March last, the Magistrates heard 363 civil cases. The amount sued for totalled £10,112 18m sd, while the. amount recovered totalled £5490 14s 2d. CivH *ee s collected amounted to £470 15s" 6S. There had been C-39 sammary Convictions. Tho criminal fees totalled £92 14s and the fines £338. INVERCATUULL, This Day. At the In7en\iigill Kwjmming Club's tourney yesterday E. J. Daw son (Dunndin) won the 100 Yards Championship of OUi.O arcl Southland, his clubniate, M. C. Uniterm orth, beinj; s-econd. Brown (Invercargili) whs> third. Won by lour Vctrds. lime, 69soc. Butterworth was ibirly successful in other ovents.