NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 May 1901, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[Pee Peess Association.]

Teachers’ Salaries Commission. Inveecaegill, May 23. At the sitting of the Teachers’ Salaries Commission to-day, Inspectors Hendry and Braik and Mr McAlister, member of the Board of Education, and several teachers gave their opinions on the main point. They were generally agreed that the second scheme of Colonial scale of salaries was equitable and would prefer it to payment at the discretion of the Board. The Commission has closed. Deceased Husbands’ Brother Bill. Wellington, May 23. It is announced in to-night’s Gazette that the Royal assent has been given to the Deceased Husbands’ Brother Marriage Bill passed during last session of Parliament.

Accident at Military Sports

Wellington, This Day.

The Military Sports held at Heretaunga by the Mounted Eifles yesterday closed Very abruptly, owing to one of the competitors in a chase after a supposed “Boer” causing injury to some of the spectators. A Trooper who caught the “Beer" seized his horse’s rein and swerved up on a bank amongst the crowd, with the result that two boys were knocked down and badly bruised. One was taken to the hospital. The injuries are not serious. Suicide by Hanging. Wellington, May 24. A man named Syven Sylverston hung himself at a boarding house in Masterton to-day, the indications suggest that the act was deliberately planned. Queen’s Statue. Wellington, May 24. The fund for the erection of a statue of the late Queen amounts to £ISOO. half the sum required. If within the next few days the fund increases an effort will be made to get the Duke of Cornwall to lay the foundation stone.

Supreme Court Sittings

Auckland This Day.

Henry Johnston Ex-Director of the Kauri Timber Coy was sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labor- An application for probation or fine was refused by Oonnoly who declared that he made no distinction between Johnston and any person of inferior position who might have no eloquent counsel to defend him.

Alleged Embezzlement.

Dunedin, May 23.

Henry Nelson Firth, Clerk of the Court at Queenstown, was arrested on a charge of theft of £IOO belonging to the Government, He was brought before the Court at Queenstown and remanded. Proceedings were instituted by the Audit Department.

Burglary.

Cheistchueoh, May 24.

The Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton was burglariously entered last night and about £4O stolen; the safe was carried away and found on a manure heap on a vacant section, burst open with dynamite.

Supposed Suicide. Chbistchurch, May 24, Jas Lewin, of Lyttelton, son of Mr Lewin of the Harbor Board staff, is missing. His hat and revolverwith one chamber empty have been found on the edge of a cliff off Summer road, 'Lewin has been, strange in hia manner lately and it is feared that he shot himself and then threw himself over the cliff. The police are dragging for Ms body in the sea, Fatal Accidents. Napier, May 24.

Michael Oakley, a single young man, died in the hospital last night as result of an accident at Puketapu. Yesterday afternoon deceased was picked up unconscious on*the road, his team of horses having run into a fence a little further along.

Invercargill, May 24.

The body of Geo Dorsby who has been missing since Monday was found in Pum Creek. It is supposed that ho fell in accidentally.

Gisborne, May 23. At the inquest on the body of the lad Mills White, fatally shot while out duckshooting, a verdict was returned that death was accidental, no blame being attachable to anyone.

No Word of Flotation. Wellington; This Day, Mr Harris, attorney for Mr Spencer Booth, who recently left for England as attorney for the Tasman Golden Gravels Company (West Coast), declared he had received no information of the successful flotation of the Company being assured as mentioned in a Hokitika telegram of the 10th instant. He further states that shortly after Mr Booth’s arrival in England he received a cable from him in which no mention was made of the Tasman Golden Gravels. Railway Station broken Into. Otaki, This Day. The railway'station was broken into this morning and an attempt was made to blow open the safe with dynamite. The explosion did not quite fulfill its purpose, but the burglar got away. Obituary. Dunedin, This Day, 0, M. Gordon Registrar of Supreme Court and Sheriff, died to-day, aged 72. He was about town till the last day or two.