NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 97, 13 April 1908, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

SCHOLASTIC. Per Proas Association. Wellington, Last Night. the Senate ni' tin: Ciiivi'iMi v' ul New Zealand nut yesterday anil elected tin; Exhibition science research scholar for the veal'. 'l'hc examiners in England hiUt '""aide to decide between the two candidate-,, A. .\l. l-'inlavsun. M.Sc . of Dunedin, ami I). )•;. Hansen, li.Sc., of Auckland. Alter lengthy discussion il was resolved tiiat tin;'scholarship bo awarded to Mr. h'inlay >on. NLW TECHNICAL SCHOOL. Wellington, Last Nigh I. The Governor laid the foundationstone of the i'etone 'J'cchnical Schocd Oil Saturday, Lord l'lnnkct spoke briefly of the importance of technical education, ill view of the struggle going on in older countries to obtain commercial and industrial supremacy. E.\l I'LOVEKS' ASSOCIATION LAiiOli ULliiiAU. ■Napier, Last Niglil. It has been decided to form a labor bureau branch of the llawkes J.!ay Employers' Association. The membership roll of the association is Don' 127.

CAKJiFL'LXIiSS OK TIIK CUSTOMS. Auckland, Last .Night. | llie care with which the Customs authorities examine articles was illustrated at the Harbor Hoard's meeting yesterday, when the fact was mentioned that owing to their being two and a-lialf matches too many in some boxes, 100 cases of matches had been detained in" the whart' sheds. The Customs wanted increased duty, and delay arose while the mallei' was under -Ministerial consideration, and the result was a charge for twenty-oight days' storage fees, the committee decided to recommend the Board to remit half the storage charges under the circumstances.

COOK ISLANDS' WKATJllili. Karotohga, April 2. ' The month of March which has just passed Holds the record for the greatest amount of rain ill one month for the past ton years, a total of 22.2(1 inches having fallen in eighteen days 1 rain, with a maximum of 3.U3 inches in one day. The average for the month of March in the last ten years is 8.05 inches. The total rainfall for the first three mouths of the present year is 42.40 inches, as against an average of 28.82 inches for tlic previous ten years.

On the 15th and l(Jth March Karotonga was visited by a severe northerly gale, the barometer falling to *20.71. The wind was accompanied by a high sea, which rolled irto the harbors. The schooner Vaite, which was moored iu Avatiu harbor, was for some time in danger of drifting from her moorings and going ashore, but luckily her wire rope* held. The mean of the barometer for the. month was '2SMISO inches. The mean thermometer readings were as follows:—Mean maximum, 82 degrees; mean minimum, SO.-1 degrees.