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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 9027, 4 November 1892, Page 13

The dental' examination has just concluded at Dunedin. Three Auckland candidates, viz., Jessie B. Cox, Alfred Edwin Smith, and Geo. VV. Wright, all passed. The financial position of the Borough of of Auckland is steadily improving. On the 30th September 1887 «* ™*5» stood at £31,401, and on th « 30th beptem. ber, 1892, it had been reduced to £7017. The Bruce Herald chronicles the discovery of an extensive deposit of moa bones in a railway cutting near Milburn. At a depth offieet, an! for fully hall{-*■&,; there was found a mass of moa bdftes embedded in the blue clay. The Wellington Times publishes statistics compiled from the banking records of the colony, which shovr that deposits bearing interest have increased during the last decade by five and a-half millions. During the last year alone the increase was nearly a million. ■ An interesting lecture on the subject, "The Submarine Cable and Cable-laying," was delivered in the Young Men's Christian Association lecture ball on the 21sb October by Mr. Richard Heinitz. Mr. Thomas Buddie took- the chair, and there was a very fair; audience present. A voto _, °* thanks to the lecturer, proposed by Mr. Graved Aiokin, was carried by acclamation. :■■■ •-.'-#