GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9186, 28 April 1893, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[by telegraph.— press association.] Wellington, Thursday. The following amended regulations relating to the inspection of schools and standards of examinations appear in to-night's Gazette : —l. Knowledge of cause of phenomena of seasons shall not be required for the fourth standard, but shall be required for the fifth. 2. The last five of the geometrical problems prescribed for the fourth standard may at the option of the teacher be reserved for the fifth standard. 3. For the first, second, and third standards the inspector shall nob insist on a knowledge of the technical words of geometry. The balance-sheet of the Opera House ihows the receipts amounted to £1930, and the expenditure to £1643. The Government do nob intend to fill the vacancy caused by the Defence Engineer's resignation. If anything out of the common is required, Major-General Schaw will probably be asked to supervise. Somewhat remarkable weather has been experienced in Wellington during the last fortnight. With one brief interval the sun has nob been seen since Monday of last week. It has been raining or drizzling all the time, and the sky is still in the same condition.

Hokitika, Thursday. The Weatland Kilwinning Lodge was opened here last evening under the New Zealand Constitution, being No. 88 under the Grand Lodge. There was a large attendance.

Christchorch, Thursday. A boy of 14 years of age, Frederick Snell, was found hanging by a rope, suspended from a hook In a shed on his father's premises this afternoon. Life was extinct when tho body was found. Dunkdin, Thursday. News has been received of the death in irizona of V\'m. Quinkerton, an Australian md Otago pioneer, at age of the 84. He arrived in Adelaide in 1838, and came to Now Zealand in 1855.

In reference to tho cablegram that tho Fifeshire's cheese was damaged through over-heating, Messrs. Turnbull, Martin, and Co. have received a cablegram stating that only one consignee complained that the cheese was heated, and it is supposed that only a few cases are out of order.

In connection with the realisation of the Colonial Investments and Agency Company's properties, Mr. Dobson estimates that if the reserve fund of £27,500 is intact there will be no call, and if tho contingency fund, £22,272, also exists as a tangible asset, there will be a surplus to divide amongst tho shareholders.

Invkrcaroill, Thursday. Tho verdict of tho jury at the inquest on the body of the young man Daniel Murray was to the effect that he had poisoned himself while insane. His sister deposed that she bought the carbolic acid for tho deceased, who said he wanted it to abate a bad smell in her room. Tho hospital Burgeon said that Murray had been an outpatient for five years, and was certainly weak-minded.

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