TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, 17 May 1907, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

[PER PRBSB ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, May 17. A sad accident occurred at Mamaku, on Thursday morning to Burke, a bushman working for Tapon. He was struck on the head by the falling limb of a tree, sustaining a fractured J* aw. Death was caused by hemorrtage, and occurred four houra later. Dunedin, May 17. The annual report of the Otago Education Board shows that in 1906 there was a decrease of 328 in the number of pupils in the Dunedin schools, and of 171 in the average attendance. The number of pupils attending in the whole eductation distiict was lower last year than for any year since 1883; and was due largely to measles and similar epidemics. Attention was pointedly drawn to the large increase in the number of uncertificated or unlicensed teachers, most of whom were employed single-handed in outlying districts. Of 464 adult teachers, 1,3.8 per cent, do not possess the essential certificates of competence. The opinion was emphatically expressed that the present age limit for free places in secondary schools is mischievous in its results. The inspectors complain that owing to the increase of work and changes in methods, schools are inadequately staffed. Masterton, May 17. At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr W. P. James imposed the maximum penalty of £10, with costs 7s, on a man for procuring liquor for his sister, a prohibited person. Auckland, May 17. Albert Edward Wight, a butcher, was charged at Paeroa with having fed/pigs with raw offal. The evidence was to the effect that two inspectors visited defendant's property on March 16, and found a number of pigs feeding on raw offal. There was also a dead pig and a dead dog in the pig yard. The defence was that the offal was carried into the pig yard by ducks. Defendant denied ever having fed the pigs on raw offal, but admitted a previous conviction for a similar offence. He was fined £6 and oosts __..,. _, -- Waihi, May 17. A daring robbery of jewellery valued at £50 and -cash £20 is reported from a boarding house. The thief entered through a back door, and escaped from a bedroom window. The oash box and jewel case were found in an adjoining hedge. Napier, May 17. Thomas Peddle, a settler, appeared at the Court to-day on a charge of assaulting Mr Cutten, S.M., in the execution of hk duty as a sheriff. Peddle some time ago agreed to sell his station to Oswald Orr, but later, repudiated the agreement. Orr took the case to the Supreme Court, where judgment went in his favour. __*- rte-fdle went to the Appeal Court, but again tost. Yesterday Mr Cutten wect up with a party of constables to execute, the order of ejectment, but Peddle resented the intrusion of the law, and struck Mr Cutten a violent blow on the bridge of his noce. Peddle was remanded. The offices of the Napier Fish Supply Co., at the port, were burglariously entered on Tuesday night, and one of the safes (which fortunately contained nothing was 1 carried bodily away. Yesterday morning the safe was found in a battered condition in a lagoon, and later the polios arrested William Brock and Charles John Bartlett on a charge of being concerned with tbe robbery. The accused were before the Court to-day, and were remanded. The Governor arrived by the express train last night, and left by special coach this morning for Wairoa, en route to Gisborne.