NEW ZEALAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9909, 15 December 1892, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

[Pee Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 14. E. Reynolds, cyclist, did a mile trial in 2min 49§sec. The Athletic Club has decided that Reynolds shall represent Auckland at the Dunedin Championship Meeting. The City Schools Committees passed a resolution disapproving of the proposals now before the Board of Education, making teachers lodging frivolous complaints against Inspectors liable to dismissal, and a proposal to make country school service compulsory on candidates for appointment as first assistants in town. The motion before the Board recommending that educational control should ba handed over to local Committees and tha abolition of Boards of Education is not likely to be carried. NAPIEE, Dec. 14. The police, finding great difficulty in getting evidence in the charges of permitting gambling brought against Ellingham, of the Occidental Hotel, determined to proceed to extreme measures. One witness was arrested, and two others would have been arrested in Dunedin, but at the last moment they agreed to come back. WELLINGTON, Dec. 14. At a meeting of the Hutt County Council, the opinion was expressed that that body and others similarly circumstanced would soon be forced into striking a special rate for charitable aid. The Council’s present contribution for the purpose is at the rate of .£BOO a year, which is said to be more than can be spared. DUNEDIN, Dec. 14. Tha annual report of the Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association states that the permanent relief fund now amounts to .£7Ol, and that the members now number one hundred and five. The annual dinner of High School O d Boys was held to-night, but owing to numbers being laid up with influenza it was not so successful as usual. The Hon J, M’Gregor, M.L.C., was among the speakers. Reference was made by some of the speakers to the systems of education not dove-tailing into each other, and the remedy suggested was that education should be free from the university downwards.