TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8192, 19 May 1906, Page 6

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Afsoeiation.i NAPIER. May 18. Tho Te Aute Trust Commission continued its sittings to-day. The evidence of Archdeacon Williams was continued, and was on the same lines as yesterday. The Commission adjourned until tomorrow. GREYMOUTH, May 18. Before the Devonport left Greuiiuuth a sailor, who, for refusing to proceed, had been sent to gaol for two weeks, was put on board. Prior to sailing he declared the vessel was unseaworthy. Brown, a ship's carpentcr, writing in the Grey Star, declares he was engaged in repairing the Devonport at Greymouth ten yeara ago. Ho then considered her unseaworthv. INVERCARGILL, May 18. Mr William Young, Town Clerk of Invercargill for ten years, has resigned owing to ill health, aud has been granted leave of absence till the end of the year on full salary. Mr Young was previously manager of the Colonial Bank here. HASTINGS, May 19. An important decision was delivered by the Native Appellate Court to-day. A Maori woman, who is now dead, during her illness, adopted two minora, Kathleen Blake w d Ralph Holden Woodwood, as heirs to her estate. The next of kin to the deceased, Hakupa To Ahnnga, sought to set aside this adoption on the ground that the children never resided with deceased. After two days' argument before three judges, judgment was delivered this morning in favour of the children. The case involved between .£15,000 and £20,000. WELLINGTON. May 15. A ruan, 76 years of age, and stone 'blind, has fallen into the hands oi" the police. The man, whose name is John Boyle, came up from Christehureh fey the Pateena tins morning. The purser of the vessel, noticing that the man was a helpless individual handed him over to the police. Boyle in formed the police that he had been in the Nazareth Home in Christehureh for the past eight months, but became discontented, and saved up enough money out o! his old age pension to pay tiie fare to Wellington. Asked by Sub-In-pector O'Donovan what lie intended to do here, the old man stated that he was going to try to get into one of the Homes. The police are making inquiries at Christchurch about the matter. DUNE DIN. May 17. At a meeting of tho School Committees' Asnoeiation a resolution waa carried in favour of the appointment of a director of technical education and manual teaching. It waa resolved that the Executive renew their representations to the Education Department in favour of the abolition of the age restriction upon the admission of free pupils to secondary schools, and that the school examinations be held towardß the end of the year.