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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 272, 24 November 1898, Page 2

Condensed Telegrams.— The Selwyn County Council has elected Mrs Black as its representative on the Christehurch Charitablo Aid Board.— The Auckland School Committee have given in and opened the schools at tho order of the Kducation Board, but tho attendance was smalt, there being some hundreds of children absent owing to theineaslea epidemic. — During the last quartor measles were responsible for 201 deaths in S>dney.— Heavy snowstorms are raging in the north of England, and iho railways aro blocked. — The Victorian Legislative Council has passed the bill for the abolition of plural voting.— Applications from public libraries for grants under the £2LtX) vote of last session aro now being received.— The draft regulations under the Pensions Act will ho completed iu a fow days. -Burgtars last night, removed a safe with money, stamp i, and documents, from tbe shop of Thomas Adams stationer, Gi-bornc— Samuel Orr, grain buyer, has been adjudicated a bankrupt. — The militia will be called out for a few days training at Mister,— TheLytteJltm Harbour Board's 1 per cent loan has been subscribed £10) 5s per £100 bond., Larrikiiiisin, at present in a mild form but likely to become more serious if unchecked, is showing itself in Nelson, and an example is neded in order to teach boys and youths that they cannot indulge in their horseplay with impunity. Complaints are made of mischief by boys iu the (.ueenV Gardens, and of impudence to the caretaker, and consequently it is the intention of tin: City Council to prosecute hoys and others who molest the fish or the birds or tramp'e on the Rras* and flowerbeds. It is Import that the police will also keep an eye on the Normanby and Hardy Street bridges in the evenings occasionally. It is the custom of a number of youths to congregate there, and annoy passers-by and others, while anyone who attempts to fish in the river within sight of the bridgo-i has to run Ihe gauntlet" of molestation in insults and stone throwing. A complaint has also reached ns that unless the military camps in the Botanical Reserve are kept more quiet after " Lights Out," Im- been sounded by the bugle residents ia tho neighbourhood will have to make arrangements to remove till tho tent:- are struck. .At tho sitting of the Diocesan Synod on Tuesday, ono of tho clerical members, in the course of a speech, ij noted a remark that had been made to him to tho etreel that a certain person was not tho " clean potato," The liev. W. (i. Baker questioned whether this was a Synodical oxpresion and asked for the President's ruling on the subject. Tho President (the Bishop of Nelson J. whilst agreeing that the expression might be a" very good one in some respects, said it could not bo regard i od as a proper ono from a Synodica! point of view. It is stated that Mr Joseph Taylor, of Bainham, will come out as a Heddonian caudidute for Motueka at the next General Election, even If Mr Boderick McKenzie should stand again. A telephone ofliae bag now been opened ut Warea, New Plymouth,