NEW ZEALAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 8, 10 January 1890, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

Ddnbwn, January 9. Tha Eduoation Conference carried a series of resolutions affirming the desirability of Inspectors being plaoed under the oentral Department, and the desirability of appointing a court of appeal for teaohers ; and the transference of teaohers from one district to another, 1 1 formation baa reached town that Mr J*moß was accidentally killed near Wedderburn. He was a traveller for Messrs Thompson and Co, aarated water manufacturers, and he leoveß a widow and family, Beven of the latter being grown up. January 10. A party of s'x loonl trad amen who invested in one of the Sydney Consultations have received advios that they have drawn the winner of the Carrington Stakes. They ehara £4625. ' The Educational Conference have adopted s modified drawing syllabup. Ohbistchueoh, Jan, 9. A boy named Macey, aged seven years, fell into the water off the steamere' wharf at Lyttelton tpnday. A sailor belonging to H.M.S, Opal, named Hurry Wall, quickly jumped into the water and reeoued the b>y, . keeping him aSoat till bath were hauled < aehoro with a line. The Bheep slaughtered last year at th- i Belfast Freeziag Works numbered 927,095, ;

This cumber is l«rs than ttt%« for tha previous pear, but , would h»v« baeu 60 per o'ent groatcr bad it rot been for the fire At the works, Wellington, January 9. The Gazette contains a notification as to the receipt of a proclamation by the Governor of South Australia prohibiting the importation of New Zealand sheep into that Colony. The Wellington Land Board have been in communication with the Victorian Land Department respecting tho methods adopted in that Colony to prevent dummyism. Mr Marchant, the Chief Commissioner, laid a lengthy reply before the Board to-day, and remarked that the Victorian regulations pointed to the conclusion that by choosing the selector, enforcing residence, witholding the Crown grant, limiting freehold selection, j and carefully controlling all dealings by way of transfer, mortgage, eto, Victoria pos« sesses a system whioh ia declared to work with satisfactory results, and to have almost extinguished dummyism. The passengers by the Grafton from Nelson and the West Coast found a lunatio amongst their midst last night. A man annonnoed be was " Jack the Ripper," and for a while terrorised the occupants of the sooial hall, where a number of pers >ns were sleeping, until an opportunity ooeurring, he was seized, and after a general melee, secured. A!; the Resident Magistrate's Court this afternoon an application was made on behalf of the prize winner iv the Ohristahurch Baby Show to have Mr Donnelly, the promoter of the show, and a'so of the Baby Show held, here during the last two days, held to bail, there being reason to believe that he contemplated leaving tho colony by the s.s. Arawa to avoid payment. A warrant was accordingly issued, and the bailiff proceeding aboard the s.s. Arawa, lying in the stream, he found Donnelly, who satisfied the claim. The steamer Bhortly afterwards took her departure for London. The prize awards in the Baby Show he'd here, for whioh there were 109 entries, were to have been announced to-night, and a number of anxious mothers and a large assemblage of the publio waited outside the Skating Rink in Ingestre street, where the show had been held, but the doors were not opened. Dunedin, January 10. At the Queenstown races Trimolite won the Hurdles, with Seoretary 2nd. Don Caa3ar won the Handicap, Ixion second, Pennant third.