TELEGRAMS.
(I'eu UsiTui) Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, April 23.
The annual meetings of householders passed off quietly. At the city meeting complaint was/made of the irregular attendance of boys in the higher standards." A discussion also took place on the syllabus. A resolution was carried recommending that.history-be abolished as a class or pass subject, historical knowledge to be supplied by the reading books ; also . that the higher branches of geography and the more, abstruse rules of "arithmetic be omitted.
Up to date £20.050 of the City Council loan has been tiikenup.
. ,„ . , , NAPIER, April 23. A I<4-roomed house at Meanee, owned and occupied by; Mr P. Dooney, wns burned ciown yesterday. The house was empty Mr Dooney's family being away for the day. Insurances :On the house. '£400 -on the furniture, £150. ' ■ ' ■
WELLINGTON, April 23. lhe arrivals in the colony ifor March were 1005, and the departures (including 713 troops) 2548.
The yacht Boomerang broke away from her moorings, and was found on the rocks four miles from the lighthouse with a hole knocked in her.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11715, 24 April 1900, Page 5
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