WITHIN THE DOMINION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7872, 7 August 1911, Page 1

WITHIN THE DOMINION

LATEST TELEGRAMS FBESS ASSOCIATIOU. ' CHRISTCHURCH NORTH SEAT. CHRISTCHURCH, August 5. The Rev. L. M. Lilt was nominated; today for Christchurch North by Messrs C. E. Salter, S. Herrington. J, K. Bin* clair, and W. Hindle. DROWNING ' CASE AT FIJI. AUCIvLANH, August's. A private cablegram from Fiji report* the death by drowning of Al/red N. Strong, a young Aucklander, .who lol> for the Islands a few mouths ago. ’ COMPETITIONS CONCLUDED. , GREYMOUTH, August 5. The elocutionary competitions con*' eluded last night. Trinity Ar.gliean instituto secured 3633 points, St. Colnmba Catholic 3553, Methodist 261J7.; There va» an immense audience Inst night, when Mr Bacyert;’,, the judge, again, urged Greymouth to send a team to ; Welling*' ton. CLERK ADMITS T'l-iEFT. . OAMARU, August 5. . William Allen, a clerk employed ;:by the Westport Coal Company, pleaded guilty to the tho2t of .£2B, the*, property of Ms employers. • He ■ was .committed-tc the Supreme Court for sentence.

DEATH FROM A FALL. AUCKLAND, August 5.

Captain Andrew Sloan o felP over a eliff while walking Pin his ' garden at Hern© Bay, and sustained injuries' from which he died in the hospital. It M hot known how the accident occurred. .

DEATH BY STRANGULATION. DUNEDIN, August 5. At tho inquest on Thomas Burgees, aged -62 years, who was . found 1 leaning w over a fence, dead, a verdict was'roturued that death was duo-to strangulation, , deceased’s nock having been cudght , in I '" : the top of the fence wnilst ho was seixed with a'fit of cramp. There were absq: ; 1 lately no signs of alcohol. The case u. a most unusual one. Deceased had come from tho country on a holiday visit.

ACTION FOR RENT SUCCEEDS, AUCKLAND, August .1.

The tenants of tho Savoy Club, Queen street, were defendants in a claim for ,i-70 rent heard..by Mr Kettle, S.M. Tha case arose out of the action of the health authorities, who ordered, tin. premises to bo closed ,on tho,: ground, of insanitation, and to, bo , made rat-proof. Business was hot resumed. The premises were occupied'under a lease, and ' the plaintiffs claimed seven . weeks’- rent.' Counsel, for the defence ■ contended tiiai where the statute compelled a breach of contract tho parties wbro i discharged: from further performance. The-niagist trate held that defendants were liable and gave judgment accordingly.,: i.-o ,

PENSIONER FOUND DROWNED. GItEYMOUTH, August 5. An old age , pensioner named- Henry Diamond w r as found drowned in a creek at Kunauga this morning., ,

.SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. ' CHEISTCHUECH, August : !>.' Deferring to the statement made ia ■" Parliament that the aggregation-1 ; of, ; , land had led to decreases in the school attendance at the country schools,; Mr 11 1, U. n. Upio said that it had been said ‘i - that Peudarvtli school had been closed. That was quite correct, but, the school , was Only closed temporarily and had been. ; reopened. It was true that the attend-. A anoes in the country schools had fallen in the past ten years, but in the town : I schools there had. been an increase. Mr ■ ' : Opie said that ho did not class such. ‘ W schools as Belfast, .Itangiora and . ' New. ; ; > Brighton as country schools. : In 1901, he added, the total attendance was 25,33fi, . ; l: and in 1910 36,877. In the town and sub- 1.. urban schools the attendance in 1901- ;; was 14,563, and .10,910 in 1910. The conn- ’,, trv schools in 1901 had fallen from-10,47.1 . i, to 9367 in 1910, or 5.00 per cent, and in. ,; ? the central ward the increase in tbo-.ten years had been from 10,280 to 12,019, or $0.63 per cent In the central and , town schools the increase had been from ■ 14.863 to 16.980, or 30.47 per cent. ,. v