NEW ZEALAND.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 8, 20 May 1893, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

The Hon. J. Mackenzie, Minister of Lands, is in Dnnedin. At Auckland recently one employer was fined under the Factory Act for not paying wages to his work girls for Easter Monday, and another for not doing so for Good Friday and Easter Monday. Mr A. D. Willis stands for the Wanganui seat in the Government interest, Mr Parsons having retired. Mr G. Carson is the Opposition candidate. A steerage passengernamed Charles Abernethy jumped of£ the s.s. Wakatipu when she was about fifty miles from Sydney Heads, and was drowned. He had all his money with him, and . left his wife (who was on hoard) •destitute. A good sum was, however, collected for her. The temperance societies in Wellington state they will not vote for any candidate unfavourable to the direct veto. A sum of £5,000 has been authorised for the formation of roads to ■ open up the Cheviot estate. It is intended to put a batch of the un- - employed on the ground next week. A Cabinet minute has been circulated amongst heads of Government departments that no increases of salaries are to be put in the estimates except those required by law -or the regulations. Patk. Burke, a Christchurch hotelkeeper, has been fined £lO for supplying liquor to a drunk man.

| |Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H.R,, speaking at the Dunedin Education Board, while expressing satisfaction that provision was made in some schools for teaching washing, Suggested it would be a good thing if children vere also taught to wash.