Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10452, 29 October 1904, Page 4

Local and General.

—t — Mr Seddon- hopes to close the session to-day week. I Owing to> exceptionally heavy rain half of iWaihi is now! practically under water. Therei were 1952 accidents' recorded in connection with the Now 1 Zealand 'Hallway Department duringl the j last five years. j The Premier -calmly announced ■ yesterday that there were 20 bills on the order paper which the Government desired] to pass! It was suggested last night that in the event of war ■being 1 declared bei tween Great Britain aaid Russia the iireboll should be tolled- As there is [ a penalty of £5 for interfering with , thw fireball unlessi in the case of a i fire there was an oninous silence when the suggestion was made. ■Coromandel Hospital has 253 subswibersi under the new regime. It provides that anyo>n© subscribing Gd per week, was entitled to medical attondtui.ee and medicine for himself and members oi" his family under 18 years! of age: other members of a /amity to be admitted to benefit upon payment of Gd per week for' two female members- or one male and one female over IS. Ib Was ■stated in the House that overy offo'rt would be niadq to prevent dummyi&m. iS'everal eaa&n were knowhi to the Government in which the owners of estates have, through members of their families', obtained sections of land. The Government, hoped that the heafvy penalty inflicted in a recent case ati Awoklandl would have ai salutary effect- Examples, would bo made of those who> were found to' violate the law.lVs;i l-li.o outcome of a conference of hcailniaslcirs at Dunodin regarding (lie. now .school syllabus, a. sieb.eine was iiiiaiiiiii.'inisly adoptwl a,s to teaj.-hinjj; under thoi now syllabuy, «O' that all | schools may, work, in one way. If ! this scheme is carried intol effect, a ! scholar proceeding from one school to another will find his 1 past- tuition of just the samci value as if he had stayed with hisi old teachers 1. There I will bo no- waste, lto going badk. j Tliere will be no changes from, school tto iKc.hool!. The scheme is being; sent yn to the Educational Institute-