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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1633, 9 March 1886, Page 4

Thompson was brought before the E.M. Court this afternoon" and discharged. • ; Tuesday. . Tlie post, of Secretary of the Education Department has not yet bee^i tilled rip. Mr Habeas will for the present tulfil its duties. The Government will enquire into the circumstances -of the arrest of ■ Oscar Johnston at Christchurch, and if they consider the constable's action was within due limits, they will bear the charges of the action against 'him. It was intended to try and compromise the case, but the action came before the court too quickly. It is understood that the history of New Zealand is to be made a subject of national education, and a gentleman m Wellington is writing a manual for use m State Schools. Christchurch, Monday. Eliza' Fice,.- wife of Thomas Fice, formerly an hotelkeeper here, dropped dead m her house at Bingsland this morning. . .-■■;".' Dunediv, Monday. A sharper named Docherty was sentenced to ■ three months for snatching a watch from a man who refused to shout for himself and another. ■j BefnardiHiind,:. who^ recfentlv arrived from the Kohimarama Ti'ajping School, Was sentenced to "three months for stealing .tvyehty £I ..notes .from his fellow employe, named .Thompson;, ;j