MISCELLANEOUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 5 December 1906, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

MELBOUiRNE. Tuesday. 3rr Bent, State Premier, has acceptaa Sir S. Gillot's resignation with 'deep regret, being sorry to lose tire service of an able and consciontioue man. I Arrived— Star of 'Japan, from London. SYDNEY, Tuesday. I Arrived— KbnigsbjTd, from Kai- . ton. The wool market is at Gts •trougett, probably' 2$ to 5 per eont. aliovo lnst week's rates for all qualities. There is keen <ienvand for comebacks and crossbred is fully maintained. DUNEDIV, Tuctday. • Mr William John Morrell. M.A., at present chief master of Classics and .English, ami first assistant niAster at the Auckland Grammar School, has been appointed Reotor of tbu Otago Boys' Hiph School. There were 24 applicatians. 20 of which were from Australia and four from New Zealand. NAPIER. Tueod'ay. Mr Jlattli'.'w Arlow Ferguson, who has boen OovernnM?nt lnsi)cttor of Abattoirs in the district for some years, died at the Napier Hospital yestcrhay. Air Ferguson, who was a son of Mr R. H. Ferguson, formerly a teaoher atßelfast and Burnside, was well known in Canterbury and Ofego. | WELLINGTON, Tuesday. ' It is understood that necrotiat ons between the City Council and the New Zealand Electrical Syndicate, by which tho firmer takes ovor tho Company's plant has lloun definitely settled 'at £150,000.' 1 1