NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 68, 17 September 1896, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

«- (Per Press Association.) Wellington, This L»ay. Mrs Crewe, wife of David Crewe, mayor of Pahiatua, and one of the first residents in this district, died last night. Napier, Sept. 16. Mrs Chambers, wife of a cabman, was found dead by her husband on his return home last night. Constable Norwood was to-night presented by the Mayor with a certificate of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for a gallant attempt to save the man Marr in the heavy eurf. The Minister of Education refused his assent to the new pnpil teachers regulations unless payment of both sexes were made equiil. The acting chairman remarked that in the state of the Board's finance 3 he feared the equality would have to mean a reduction of salaries of males and not an increase to females. The Board has only nine male pupil teachers, but 50 females but the higher salary was adopted to attract more males. Christchurch, Sept. 16. A woman whose name has not yet been ascertained was drowned at New Brighton this afternoon. The man in charge of the pier saw her struggling in the water, and made an attempt to get her out, but|could not do so. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Adolph Schlesniger, tobacconist etc., was fined 40s and coats for Belling goods on the statutory half-holiday. At the Education Board to-day a motion to allow all certified teachers to inflict corporal punishment was rejected. Auckland. Sept. 16. At the inquest on the seaman McLeod, of the barque Himalaya, a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned land no|blame was attachable to anyone. The deceased was under the influence of liquor at the time. Nothing further has transpired with regard to the specimens stolen from the Welcome Find.