NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) « COMMITTEE IN STRAITS. GRANT ON A BURNT SCHOOL. Christchurch, June 29. Th© Education Board to-day had before it a letter from the Department to Hie effect that £S7 would be allowed the board for reinstating the school at Lakeside, recently destroyed by flro, and that an additional allowance of J?SO would be made in view of the increased size of the new building. The letter alsostated that the Department's liability, in regard to replacing the school, was only 15 per cent, of the capital cost. The board decided to inform the Department that it could not carry on work if it had to accept the responsibility of replacing buildings destroyed by fire on the basis laid down by the Department.

AN ASHBURTON INVENTION. Christchurch, June 29. The directors fo the Rnbber Substitute Company, Ltd., formed to exploit the invention of an Ashburton resident for the manufacture of a substitute for rubber, have received a cable from an influential firm in Australia, who represent large capitalists, asking the company to place the invention in their hands to deal with for Australian rights, and also to have the handling of the same on, the London market.

VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF, Napier, June 29. The Supremo Court to-day concluded the hearing of the case of tho Official Assignee in bankruptcy (estate oj Musgrove and Thompson) v. the Ifawke's Bay farmers' Co-operative Association. This was an action iu which plaintiff sought to recover .£l3Ol 25., value of 411 rams alleged to have been transferred to defendants by the bankrupt firm within such time before bankruptcy as to constitute the transfer a frauduleut preference. The jury returned a verdict fol plaintiff on all issues submitted to them. ATr. Justice Edwards, at counsel's request, reserved further consideration, and adjourned the case to Wellington.

TEN CONVICTIONS. Dunedin, June 29. Ernest Edward Needham, previously convicted, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the theft of an overcoat. David Jolly Milne, a youth, for forgery at Gore, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. At the Police Court eight men were each fined 40s. and coets for playing two- . up.

BREAKING INTO A WAREHOUSE. Christchurch, June 29. James Arthur Lambert was charged ai tho Magistrate's Court to-day with breaking and entering the warehouse of 'Walter Thomas Jones, at Christchurch, on June 7, and stealing a number of articles valued at .£3O 2s. 3d. Evidence was given to tho effect that accused had hired a horse and van and so removed the goods. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

DROPPED DEAD ON SHIPBOARD. Whangarel, June 29. Peter Clark, qnarryman, dropped dead aboard the steamer CoTomanael yesterday afternoon while the vessel was alongside the Limestone Island Wharf. Clark was leaving for Auckland. Heart diseaa was the cause of death.