BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 1

BREVITIES.

The Auckland Education Board decided to offer no opposition to the proposal for taking cadets to Ckristclmrch at Exhibition • °y er „f o - 000 shares have been applied for i? e Taranaki Petroleum Company Ihe list submitted to the Hon, J. Carroll ot the damage done to .the roads and bridges Pov€rt T Bay floods totals which is said to be much under the actual loss. _ The Court of Appeal have adjourned iDI baturday morning, when, furtlier judgments will be delivered. The public school statistics at Auckland for the quarter ended June 30 .show that the scholars on the roll were 17,205 boys and 15,511 girls—a total of 32,716, and an mcrease of 219. The average attendance f or I *™ 66 x 7B 15)464 gjiJfl-a total 0t and a total increase of 329. Cabinet Las decided that neither flockowners nor shippers, being interested ixwsqns, are to be represented on the Commission which it has decided to set up to inquire into the causes of fires in wool cargoes At a public meeting convened by the Mayor of Auckland it was decided to approve of the principle of a memorial to Mr beddon, to take the form,of a largo technical college costing about £30,000, with a statue of Mr Seddon in front of it. (7^ de ’ *** the subject upon which Mr 0. E. Hamilton spoke at the tabernacle last evening, when another large audience were present. The inner circle referred to was the Kingdom of Jesus “• ,T he assisted in the singim' and Mr Garmong sang ‘The inner circle.’ The treasurer of the Pubbc Art Gallery building fund acknowledges receipt of the following subscriptions: Messrs G. Fen~c.k s®, -A- J- Park £5 3s,' W. M. Kirkcaldy £3 3s, Joseph M’George £2 R. Mans Clark £2 2s, R. B. Smith £1 l s J.. iN. Brown £1 Ls. Mr W. J. Bryan is to visit New Zeal-md ar T| AU^ rali o the end of this vear The *ew South Wales Government purpose abolishing the present Railway Commissioners, •