New Zealand Telegrams.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11933, 5 April 1902, Page 2

New Zealand Telegrams.

(Per Press Association.} POLICE RAID AUCKLAND TATTERSALL'S CLUB. Auckland, April 4. Five detectives raided this afternoon an alleged hazard school "under Tattersall's Club in Swanson-street, and arrested Tobias Tobias .and James Beckett, bookmakers, the alleged keepers of the school, and nine others, ' viz.", William Ryan, Thomas McKay, A. Hegroen, Fred Lovelock, Mark Bush, Chas. MarX Albert Champion, Henry Davy, and ' Harry Hayr, all well-known in turf circles. The door was burst in, and some who escaped over a ,back wall being Juiown ?to the police, afterwards surrendered. All were releas-r, ed on" bail, and subsequently Beckett and Tobias were charged with being the keepers of- a common gaminghouse,- and :the others with being found in the same. . KUMARA. DROWNING FATALITY. With reference to a statement made by some- cattle men on the isteamerKumai'a concerning the "drowning of a seaman named Plunkett, Captains Reid arid Adamson, on behalf of the. Board of Trade, have taken evidence, of the crew and examined The boats and fittings. They report that every thing is in perfect order, and_;Jth&t. when Plunkett fell ' overboard the ship was immediately stopped',^ a boat lowered, and every possible search made. The- cattlemenvwere not on deck until the captain had recalled the- boat after it had been away about, an hour. There, had 4 been friction between captain and tne cattlemen during the voyage. TRADES AND LABOUR CONFERENCE. , The, Trades and Labour Conference decided' t<"> urge on." the Government the establishment of State fire insurance': State tailoring and shops for making boots and clothes for State employees : State forestry; that both grand and common juries be drawn from oil classes: t that* all apprentices be legally indentured; that concessions in railway' fares, be made to parties to disputes travelling to sittings of the Conciliation Boards and Arbitration Courts. , AGITATION FOR HIGH .SCHOOL. Nelson. April 4. An interview took place to-day between members of the town school committee- and the local members of the Legislature relative to the establishment of a High School. On behalf of the committee discontent was expressed in consequence of the establishment of High Schools in other places and not in Nelson, but it was explained that as Nelson possessed an institution for secondary education the Minister had said the question of providing HHgh Schools was of such magnitude that the provision of High Schools in towns where secondary education is provided must stand over till considered by Parliament. It was stated that college, governors had offered to provide education for 50 scholars from primary schools on payment by the State of £5 5s annually for each, and it was resolved to urge Government to accept this offer. ' • ' ASSAULTING AN ASSYRIAN. A. man named Brunning was fined 40s for assaulting an Assyrian hawker. The defendant said ho was provoked by the insult offered by the Assyrian. * x CORONATION CONTINGENT. Wellington, AjJril 5. It has been arranged that the Coronation Contingent shall be mobilised at Christchurch. A BICYCLE THIEF. Percy Attwood, who was connected with' the yacht Ariadne, wa-s sen-, tenccd in the Magistrate's Court - this morning to six months for the larceny of a bicycle. THE PRESENTATION TO PREMIER. The total Wellington subscriptions to tho fund for a presentation to the Premier ore £850. The signatures to the address number 9,000. • NATIVE CORONATION CONTINGENT. • Tnranaki Tc Ua, of Hawke's Bay, will ha-vo the command of the Corolmtion Contingent. • • .SUSPECTED INCENOIARTSM Cbristchureh, April 5. A supposed attempt to set fire to the Christchurch Working Mori's Club was discovered last night. A .

quantity of paper aad other combustable material had been collected under the stage, evidently with tho idea of fire. T SOUTHLAND EDUCATION: BOARD'S REPORT. Invercargill, April 4. The Education Board's annual report states that the demand for new schools has slackesed during . the past two years. The decrease- in total attendance was small last; year, while the last quarter of 1901' was nearly a record, as was also the best average. Commenting on the Teachers Salaries Act, objection was taken to the totally inadequate salaries- for first and only assistants in schools' averaging 150 to 200, tuid the salaries of male assistants generally of second and lower grades in. all other schools. It was an'anomaly also that assistants in 150 to> 200 attendance schools got only £80, and in the next- grade almost double that amount. There should also be provision for payment for teaching sewing in schools of 25 to 40, and also for paying relieving teachers.