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New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3785, 6 July 1899, Page 6

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PRESS ASSOCIATION. , AUCKLAND, Wednesday, An Empowering Bill is to be prepared by the City Solicitor to enable the Auckland City Council to raise £50,000 or £60,000 on debentures for the puiposo of carrying out city'improvements. It is proposed to obtain-the necessary legislative power this session. ; The Auckland. has res >H-ed to recommend to the Assembly’s Committee on Education that a Bill bo introduced ' into Parliaments authorising, the taking of a plebiscite of the whole colony oil the question of introducing the reading of the Bible'as part of the daily curriculum of the national schools. WANGANUI. Wednesday. •The criminal calendar for the District Court; sittings was light.' There were only four cases, and. the prisoners 'deader! guilty. John Matson and Herbert Williams, charged with the theft of bicycles, were each sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. William White alias Marshall, for bigamy, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and Herbert Champing,' for false pretences, to twelve months. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. A. meeting of clergy, Bishop Julius presiding, adopted a form of appeal to the people of Canterbury urging them to vote for both no license and reduction at the coming local option noli. Commissioner Tunbridge has asked the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand to recognise the bravery o' Constable Thompson, who on the sth of May rescued Daniel Kennedy from drowning in Auckland harbour. DUNEDIN, Wednesday. At a meeting of the newly-formed Council of Christian Churclnw it was resolved, ‘That in view of the notorious and most deplorable evils of the drink traffic as at present earned on in Dunedin, and the manifest inability of the authorities to hold in check, much b-ss to suppress those'evils,'.without committing itself to 1 approval of; prohibition in the abstract, the Council deems it desirable and necessary in the present distress to adopt a platform of ‘ no license.’ and take the necessary steps to give effect to this decision, especially in connection with the approaching election i f Parliamentary representatives rnd the local option, vote.” , . • V MASTERTON NEWS. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. MASTERTON, Wednesday. Since complaints were made against nurses .of the Masterton Hospital, groat interest has been manifested by the public, not only in Masterton, but also throughout the l Wairarapa, in the inquiry which was held to-day. Dr Findlay, of appeared for the nursing staff, and Mr Bunny for the complainants. Declarations were filed by the nurses contradicting the charges laid against them. Evidence was given, and the trustees finally decided. '“Thai the trustees are of opinion that there-has been some slight laxity on the part of the nurses, but that it is not sufficiently serious to take any cognisance of.” Professor Kirk delivered a lecture here this evening on fruit culture. There was a largo attendance. The Agricultural and Pastoral Society intends to make arrangements for similar lectures monthlv. Messi's Coradine and Whittaker start the removal of the old post office on Monday. .