NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 23 March 1912, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

IBj Telegraph—Press AMoolatlon.) . :—« SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. Dunedln, March 21. At tlio meeting of tho Education Board to-day n motion was passed affirming the desirability of tho board being assured that all children of school ago were receiving efficient instruction, and a committee was appointed to report as to the best means' of attaining that end. In tho course of a discussion it was asserted that a number of children.of school ago worn wandering about tho streets. The question was raised as to. what was to bo dono in regard to private schools, and it was stated that the board would have to investigate this matter in order to ascertain if efficient instruction was given.

. THRESHING MILL DISPUTE. Invcrcargill, March 22. The secretary of the Southland General Labourers' ami Drivers' Union, who is at present in the Wintou district in connection with the threshing mill dispute, has furnished a report te the president of the union stating that ho has visited three mills, ami is holding meetings at Winton to-night. He states that the men. he has .spoken to arc solidly for Is. per hour, and that a number nro now putting in time nt ordinary labouring work, and will not engage in oat threshing under that sum. So far the v.;ork of organising the meu has gone on smoothly. HOTELKEEPERFINED. . Danncvjrke, March 21. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Frederick Butterficld. licensee of the Wimbledon Hotel, was fined £10 and costs (,£22 Bs.), and the license was endorsed, for permitting drunkenness on tho premises. The case aroso out of tho suicide of a half-casto some weeks ago. NEW PACIFIC CABLE, Auckland, March 21. Survey work is now in progress for carrying the new Pacific cable across the Auckland isthmus. The cable is-to bo a direct ono from Sydney to 'Auckland, and will come ashore on the West Coast at Muriwai...'.. Tho route now! being surveyed will bring the cable ovorland to Jiivorhoad, and theneo to Ponsonby Iteef. As the route, from, Muriwai toßiverhead must botrenched'..'so" as to-put-.the cable underground,',' it will -.readily ;bo understood that' thei-O' is a big amount of work involved, including many miles of trenching. FOUND DEAD. JN. BED," Dunedin, March' 21. Mrs. Cheyne, wife of Mr. A. S. Cheyne, draper, of Mosgiel, was found dead in bed this morning. Her husband'\vas at Catlins. She was found by her brother-in-law, who was staying in the house. The cause of death is supposed, to bo heart failure. ■ AUCKLAND MAYORALTY. Auckland, March 21. A mass meoting of unionists was held tonight to elect a candidate to-oppose Mr. Parr for tho Mayoralty.-A-ballot was taken, Mr. Joseph Savage (of tho Brewery Employees', Union) being selected. '■■' ,;.;;; A.BULLET .WOUND. ; Palmerston North, March 21. Clarence Hcaley, employed at a 'bntche's shop, w;as to the ."hospital this afternoon with a bullet wound in' tho forehead.'''The"bullet was extracted tonight. , No further particulars- are available. ••:.' '. ■ ■ -.'■,.■„■-.;; A..LIO.UOR "PLANT." A'shburton, March 22. -At .the;. Magistrate's' Court to-day Uideon Smith, details of whose ingenious "plant'; of liquor'iii' the garden and of .a police raid tlifreou wo've-previously telegraphed, pleaded' guilty In a charge , of keeping liquor for sale, iißd.was fined .650 aud costs. ■ , ~r■.-■".";, ACCIDENT IN RAILWAY YARD. Gore, March 22. Charles Byron, a'young man employed on.a ballast trnin.in tlio., railway.Yards, was caught bcteen two trucks at 8.:i0 a.ni. His tliigh was crushed,; ..'but no bones wero broken. WAIMATE MAYORALTY. VVainiate, Sarch 22. Groat interest is being taken in the forthcoming Mayoral election. Tho present Mayor (Mr.-N. Francis), who has filled the chair for four years, is going to England next month, and therefore is not standing. This atfernoon a deputation waited on Mr. "U\ M. Hamilton, solicitor, and presented a largely-signed requisition asking him to stand, and lie acceded to the Tcquest. Mr. John Black has also announced himself as a candidate. SHERWOOD DOWNS STATION. Timaru, March 22. The ballot for the Sherwood Downs Station subdivisions took place to-dav. •There were.,223 applicants for-16 farms and 10 grazing runs! ' Seventeen"..South ; Canterbury.applicants were successful, the others being-from-North Canterbui-v and Ofago. The homestead fell "to Mr. "E. S. Forbes, of Waihao Downs. The deposits with applications totalled X29,000T AUCKLAND MAYORALTY. ' Auckland,' March 22. Mr. Savneo has not yet accepted nomination for the Mayoralty owins to'thefact that he is a. promised member oHhe socialist party, which may not be willing for him to accept tho Labour nomination. Ho is, however, personally willing. to sink tho Socialistic issue, aud eland as a Labour candidate.