SOUTHLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 2666, 19 April 1905, Page 23

SOUTHLAND.

The Education 80. on Friday entered another strong pi otest against the administration of the Education Department. At Waicola 24 children are herded in a building 16ft by 14ft, and continuous applications for a new school have been ignored, while promises that the Inspector-general would visit and inspect have been broken. The board strongly resented the centralising tendency and humiliating treatment boards are now receiving.

Lomax, an outward passenger by the Monowai, was arrested at Bluff on Monday on a charge of obtaining £900 from a Gisborne firm by false pretences. He was sent north by train during the afternoon.

The judgment of Mr Justice Denniston in the appeal case of the police v. Whittingham, brewer, Gore was delhered on Mondaj. The police proceeded against Whitting.

ham for sending beer out of the Mataura nC license district into the Clutha, also a nolicense district, in pursuance of a written order from a customer. For the police it was contended that the delivery of goods took place at the Gore Station, and was therefore in contravention of the law. His Honor, v lengthy judgment, held otherwise, and that the beer was the property of the consignor till it reached its destination. In another appeal, his Honor held that Whittingham could not appropriate beer browed by him and ordered through an office he had established at Mandeville, in a licensed district. He the beer "being roturned to the purchaser within the no license district of Matauia. his license did not eo\ or such a transaction.