WELLINGTON SPECIAL.
STRANGE RUMOR,
(Special to Times.) Wellington, last night. A carious rumor went round the town yesterday to the elicit that a young woman nad died from the effects of ether administered in a local surgery, and that she bad heeu buried without any report of ihe mutter being made to tho authorities. The police have failed to trace the case, nnl u is assumed that rumor is ouee more a lying gade. EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
Ex-Chief Inspector Lee, who was recently dismissed by the Education Board under circumstances discreditable to some of its members, is contesting a seat which is vacant.
The working average at the schools in the Wellington district at the end of last quarter was 19,655. or about 350 moro than the same quarter of the previous year.
A LESS ON. Tho master of the Haupiri was fined 0s and costs by the magistrate to-day for carrying to sea a sailor without entering into the statutory agreement. It was explained that a new purser was blamablo for the mistake.
THE RELEASED TROOPER. Trooper Tasker, of the Sixth Contingent, about whom so much fuss was recently made because of his imprisonment for sleeping at his post, arrived by tho Waikare to-day. Wonderful to relate he did not get a public reception. FOREIGN VISITORS. Foreign States seem rather fond just now of sending representatives to make a survey of this littlo colony of ours. Tho other day two Swiss gentlemen made a round of inspection. To-day there arrived M. Eiouard Glascer, a member of the Geological staff of the French Republic, to make a tour, with the object of reporting fully as to the manner in which our labor laws apply to the mining industry. He had an interview with tho Ministers for Public Works and Mines and the officers of the Mines Department, and has been supplied by them with all the information in their possession bearing on the object of his mission. M. Glascer has been specially instructed to ascertain everything he , can as to tho operation of the Arbitration Act. He will visit most of the leading coal and gold mining centres of the colony.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 340, 14 February 1902, Page 2
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