DOMINION ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12243, 17 June 1909, Page 7

DOMINION ITEMS.

(Per Press Association),

OHRISTCHXJR,CH, J4ine 16. The North Canterbury Education Board to-day declined .to a,llp>v one school day to ba ehqrtenecl by half an honi-. to admit of that time being deVoted to religious eachiiig. The request for the half hour, waV •nade by a deputation of clergymen at last meeting of the Board, which, While quite in sympathy with the clergymen's, desire that cliildren. should be, educated, in religion, declined to cut shert a, day for thp school work which the Act intended i he children should do. At Kaikoura yesterday the whalers captured and landed two right whales, it, bull and a cow, of the estimated value of £600. This is the first catch of the season. DUNEDIN, June IG. The new dock is to be opened on the 30th inst., the Maheno being the first vessel to enter. WELLINGTON, June 16. Included in tho lonic's passengers, 27 domestics came out under the auspices of the BritisTi Women's Emigration Society to fill situations provided by a syndicate of Hawke's Bay ladies, who paid the passage money, each girl to repay in instalments the amount expended on her behalf. The next batch of domestics arrives in October. HASTINGS* June 16. The police have received word that tho schcolhouse at Porangahau was burned to the ground at midnight, and that the schoolmaster's wife was burned to death. Mr. Robeon (the schoolmaster) was away from home.