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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3777, 27 June 1899, Page 6

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PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Monday. Mrs Catherine Eidling has oeen committed for trial on a charge of uirowmg vitriol on her sister. Mrs Hannah. A seaman named William Brannigan, a deserter from K.M.S. Royalist, has oeen ordered on hoard H.M.S. Mildura. Hi was to have been married to-day to a widow with a family. Some 2327 persons have been enrolled under the Municipal Franchise Act in Auckland city. EXAMINATION OF HIGH SCHOOLS. TIMARTJ, Monday. The High School Governors have resolved to ask the Department of Education to formulate some scheme lor the regular examination of high schools at least once a year. SLUICING CLAIMS. DUNEDIN, Monday. A petition is being circulated and signed in Otago asking that the mining regulations be amended by modifying the labour conditions in respect to sluicing claims and assimilating them more neany to the conditions for dredging claims. It is alleged that at present claim-owner* are obliged to engage more labour than can be profitably employed. BUDDING DENTISTS. DUNEDIN, Monday. At tho dental examinations ten candidates presented themselves, of whom eight succeeded in gaining their diplomas. Their names are;—Sidney H. Jones, Dunedin ; J. G. H. Macky, Gore; D. McGill, Dunedin; Frederick Odium, Auckland ; Sidney A. Parkes, Wanganui; R. F. Rodio, Invercargill; R. Scott and Frank Throp, Dunedin. FISHING INDUSTRY. AUCKLAND, Monday. It is understood that Mi - A. Sanford,well known in connection with the fishing industry, has formed a combination with the owners of the freezing works for the development of the fish industry’. The business will be worked by a separate company, but the freezing works will supply freezing power, and land for cooung and refrigerating chambers, smokehouses and cleaning sheds. The new company will distribute ice as well as fish. The fish offal is to be taken by rail in closed tanks to manure works m the country. Building operations will he commenced at once, including die erection of a fish market. PRIZES FOR MUSICAL STUDENTS. AUCKLAND, Monday. At a meeting to-night of university musical students in the Choral Hall the Primate presented tne Countess of Ranfurly’s handsome medal to the successful competitors—namely, McNeil McDongall, senior division, and Miss Boulton, junior division. A resolution was passed requesting the Primate to write to the Countess expressing tho association's gratitude for her ladyship’s kindness :ri presenting medals for competition. PRIMITIVE METHODISM. AUCKLAND, Monday. At the latest conference of the Primitive: Methodist Church of New Zealand, a resolution was carried making total abstinence a test of membership. A private cablegram. states that the matter came before the English Conference; which is the supreme court of the denomination, and that that body determined to refer the matter for discussion to the quarterly meetings of the individual churches, and that upon their discussion and votes the question will be determined.