GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9489, 19 April 1894, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Wednesday. The statements made at the meeting of the trustees ot the Benovolenb Institution yesterday, with regard to the alleged expulsion of a man from the Bakers' Union because he was too poor to pay his subscriptions, were considered last evening by a committee of the latter body. The story related to the trustees was declared to be untrue, and it was decided that a deputation should wait upon the trustees and explain the circumstances of the case.

Mr. W. B. Edwards was appointed president, and Mr. Hislop vice-president, of the District Law Society. There. are four candidates from here for the Pharmacy Board examinations. Major Mair is to bo appointed Judge of the Native Land Court. The Swedish Consul at Melbourne has demanded to know whether the Auckland Isles have been formally taken possession of by Great Britain. The Government Printing Office is to be extended, at a cost of about £6000, to provide lithographic and storage room. Dr/NEDIN, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Hospital Trustees today the difficulty concerning the Medical School was settled, a resolution being passed giving the University lecturers nob on the staff facilities for clinical teaching. Heavy and continuous rain set in this afternoon and still continues.

James Green, M.H.R., was to-day elected Chairman of the Education Board. A special committee was appointed to consider what retrenchment can be made by the amalgamation of offices or otherwise. Messrs. Pinkerton and Carncross, M.H.R.'s, will probably visit Wellington to confer with the Government and endeavour to find a solution of the difficulty which has arisen in connection with the Waipori River sewage sludge channel. New Plymouth, Wednesday. The Supreme Court Criminal Sessions opened to-day. In his charge to the Grand Jury, Mr. Justice Conolly alluded to the Criminal Code Act, in its bearing on the duties of grand and common jurors. There only four prisoners. Aparona, for horsestealing, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment; George Gibbs, agent for the ,Singer Sewing Machine Company, at Hawera, pleaded guilty to eleven indictments, including forgery, and embezzlement of his employers' moneys, and was sentenced to four years on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. True bills were returned in other cases.

The bowling match, Wanganui ▼. New Plymouth, played to-day, was won by the latter by five points after a most exciting game. ..•