AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2410, 10 May 1900, Page 47

AUCKLAND.

Edwin Nesbitt Holloway was on the 2nd committed for trial on a charge of theft of £772, the property of the Public Trustee. jH>olloway ' was lor f our years clerk in the Public Trust Office' at -Auckland, and one of his duties was to lodge all cheques to the credit of the Public Trustee. On March 1 he received a cheque for £772, representing a fixed deposit and accrued interest. He went to the local Post Office Savings Bank and there obtained the postmaster's open cheque for the s>um mentioned, representing that the local agent of the Public Trustee wanted the money for disbursement that afternoon. It is alleged (that the accused then cashed the cheque ■at the Bank of New Zealand, and left for Sydney, where he was arrested. Accused reserved his defence.

His Excellency the Governor presided on the 2nd at a meeting of the subscribers to •the fund for establishing a school for Maori girls in Auckland. An assured income of £300 a year is required to enable the -committee to begin the work of the school in some suitable building. At present" the 'only school of the kind that is intended is at Napier, whexe there is not xooin. for nearly all the children whose parents wish to have -them educated, and in any. .case- there are. many Maori parents in the northern districts who would not consent to their daughters going so far from home as' Napier.