NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 67, 22 March 1901, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedin, last night. The. re-insurances on the New Zealand Company’s risk of £8770 on the fire are : United £IBOO, National £IOOO, Guardian £IOOO, Victoria £750, Northern £SOO. The furniture is divided between about 35 owners. The principal loser in this line is Mrs Larnach and Mr Douglas Larnach. The Education Board decided to allot the extra Parliamentary grant entirely among country teachers. Under the departmental scheme 197 teachers benefited; under the Board’s proposals 177 teachers will receive increments.

The Education Board to-day discussed the Minister of Education’s telegram re the appointment of a Royal Commission, and resolved, on tho motion of Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R., “in order that the Government may fulfil their promises of last session, and also comply with the requirements of section 2 of the Teachers' Salaries Act, this Board earnestly requests the help and co-operation of the various Education Boards in urging tho Government to grant the Boards equal representation with them on the Royal Commission.”

At the Police Court two dairy keepers, Richards and Thomas Coughlin, were each fined 5s for carrying pigs’ food in spring vans used for the delivery of milk. These were the first prosecutions here under the Dairy Industries Act of 1898 and the regulations gazetted in connection therewith.

Wellington, last night,

In the appeal case Riddler and others v. Dew, the Court dismissed the appeal unanimously, with costs on the lowest scale. Fish to the number of 350,000 have been hatched out at Hakateramea and Lake Ohau from the half-million salmon ova imported from America recently. Information has been received that some notorious Australian ex-convicts, liberated in connection with the Commonwealth celebrations, are now making their way to New Zealand. Christchurch, last night. At the inquest held on a two and a-half year old boy, James Peatty, who died from eating match heads, the evidence went to show that the boy had been in the habit of eating matches unknown to his mother. A verdict of death by phosphorous poisoning was returned.