NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 277, 2 April 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

(FRB PRESS ABBOCfATTOV ) Auckland. March 31 The session of the iucklaud Uni» veisitv opens on Monday H- M Tubbs, the ew Classical Pro* fessor, is here. Seagar, Professor of Mathematics, ond Egerton, English Pn-fertfcor, en route from London in the Aoraopi, arrive il the end of April, tak ing up work at once. Owing to the short interval the Pro'essional Board decided not U> appoint a substitute fur Professor Drown. Professors Tbo/nas and Tub be being tbe stuif till the arrival of the now nijisiers. Mrs Sarah Rosie, aged 60, was taken to the hospital suffering from phosphorous poisoning, having swallowed match heads She waß under treatment in the hospital five months ago, >Bid to be suffer ins? from cancer, and owing to femoral pain was hardly responsible for her action. CHKISTCHURijH, April 1 The Canterbury Kuuby Union, at a meeting luat uignt. decided bj a large majority to join the iSew Zealand Union. Wellington, March 31. The Wellington Education Board, in their annual report, complained that the Education Department had taken advantage of the epidemic of measles in the September quarter to save expenditure from the voti-, and also of the emnll sum allocated to the board for building purposes. In an interview with a Times re porter, the Minister of Education says thut by the Department adopting the working average the board has already got back more than it lost through the September quarter The Gothic left Rio on Thursday for London Palmebston N ., This Day. The Returning Officer officially declares the result of the licensing election as folfows : — Voters on roll, 8792 ; voted on questions, 1983 ; informal, 281. The poll is therefore void. Kaikoura, This Day. A sharp earthquake shock was felt at 1.45 am , yesterday. Waterspouts were seen off here yesterday, travelling from the east.