NEW ZEALAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1893, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

Wellington, April 27. The following amended regulations relafciug to inspection of schools and standards of examinations appear in to-night's Gazette :— (1.) Knowledge of lha causa of phenomena of seasons shall not be required for tha fourth Standard, but shall be required for the fifch. (2 ) The last fivo of geometrioal problems presaribed for the fourth Standard may, at liia option of the teaoher, be reserved for thu fifth Standard.---(3.) For the first, Becond aud third Standards the inspectors shall not insist on the knowledge of teohuical word 3of geometry, eicept that for the third Standard the prescribed knowledge of degrees in a right pole, in sum of the angles of triangle, and about point, shall be required. In the R.M. Court the Gazette also gives rules for R.M. Courts under the Imprisonmeat for Debt Abolition Aot, 1874. The balauoe sheet of the Opara House results show that the receipts amouuted to £1,930 and expenditure £1,643. The annual meeting of tha Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society was held in Melbourne yesterday. A cablegram received stutes that the report presented by the Directors showed very fabisf ictory results ; for last year the number of policies issued were 3,576, assuring the sura of £1,1-18,910. The total funds now exceed a million aud a half pounds, and the annual income is over £400,000. Unaninnua and enthusiastic approval was expressed at tha advance in business of the Society. CIIBISTCHUJiCH, Ap:il 27. Frederiok Saoll, a boy of 11 years of age, was found hanging by a rope rfuspanded from a hook in a Bhed ou his father's pre-< mises this afternoon, life was extinct when he was found. Ddnkdin, April 27. Clothes and boots, the property of Edward Lawrence, a redidentof Bauaoekburn, hive beeu found on the Oceaa Beach,