TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12425, 7 August 1902, Page 5

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Pp.ess Association.) AUCKLAND, August 6. Auckland subscriptions to the A 7 eterans' Home to date total £3C6. The Education Hoard's public school statistics for the quarter ended June 30 show that the number of schools (including 64 half-tnno schools) was 402, an increase of five on the previous quarter. The secretary mentioned that this was the first occasion on which .the mimjwr had lopped 400, The number of teachers for the quarter was 807 (males 348, female? 459), an increase of 12 (males 5, females 7). The number of scholars on the roll is 29,153, an. increase of 125. The average attendance was 24,951, a decrease nf,

John Howard, a returned trooper, arrested on a charge of passing a valueless cheque for £5 10:) and uttering a ehequo for £4 5s at Stratford and Kit ham respectively' early in the present year, was remanded to New Plymouth. NAPIER,, August 6. Tho Borough Council at its mooting to-night again declined to grant an application for a drain connector's license to a plumber, notwithstanding that the applicant held English and Melbourne ossificates for drain-laying, ' WANGANUI. August 6. During Tuesday night a fiond was abroad jn the town layirfg poisoned meat in several of tho streets, with the result that up to the present over 20 dogs have been poisoned. ►Several of tho animals were valuable. I here is no clue to the miscreant. WELLINGTON, August 6. Judgment wa3 given this moming for the defendant in tho action Soxncrville v. T&norcd. Tht) case aroea out of the will of the late Sir Thomas Tiuacrcd, and the evidenco was taken some days ago.