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Hastings Standard, Issue 348, 15 June 1897, Page 2

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GENERAL ITEMS. [By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, This day. The Anglo-Continental Company has completed negotiations for the purchase of the British Gold and Silver Mining Company's property at Puhipuhi. Wellington, Thi3 day. The City Council has finally passed a bye-law regulating bicycle traffic and restricting the rate of speed to miles an hour and four round corners. The Tourist Club wanted 10 and five miles, but the amendment was lost by one. The Inspector of Factories reported to the Council the practice growing up of constructing one roomed shops, mostly occupied by women, without the sanitary appliances, and asked them to prevent the practice. The Council, however, considered it had no more power in the matter than the Inspector. The Masterton School Committee held a stormy discussion on Vere Foster's upright system of writing and passed a resolution of disapproval; also condemned the system of appointment of teachers under the Act as meaningless and farcical. It was resolved to ask the Minister of Education to introduce an amendment providing that disputes between the Board and committees over appointments shall be settled by a competent board of arbitration. Christchurch, This day. The Sydenham borough council last night agreed to offer the city council £2OO per annum for the use of all city fire engines and plant to attend all fires in the borough. The weather is very fine cold. There has been a which at this time tS the ycwwTS rather unusual. There was ice three-quarters of an inch thick this morning. Dunedin, This day. At the Police Court John Douglas Morris was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for assaulting Mr Rivington, licensee of the Grand Hotel. Prosecutor was assisting a police constable in arresting Morris' brother when the prisoner knocked him down, fracturing his leg.