GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 212, 1 September 1908, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

TEACHERS' APPEAL COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Danncvirke, Last Night. There was a sitting of the Teachers' Court of Appeal at Dannavirke to-day before Mr. Riddle, S.M., and Messrs. White (for the teachers) aiid McLean/ (for the Board). The case was one which \V. MeClure, master of the Kiritakf school, appealed against the action of the Board in transferring him from Kiritaki school and offering him relief work. A great quantity of evidence was taken for the appellant, and showed that dissatisfaction long standing with the committee and reports on the school were not what the committee! wished. It was also shown that friction bulween the master and mistress* existed. Hoc master also failed to live in the school residence. Mr. foster, master of the Mount Cook school, Wellington, conducted the case for the .Tcaohws' Institute. The appeal was dismissed with costs against the appellaat - :~iiiL'.&, LABOR AND JUDGE SIM % Wellington, Last, \; a M The Wellington Cooks an<» wfitm' Union to-night unanimousl- ' "A endorse the resolutions ' 'JrE? \i, B Canterbury Trades and. ffiM urging the removal of Mr , Jllrt &iMi Court, and asking sup ort for tu ti . Umoti for Mr. r > mova , CITY

„. Christchurch, Last Night ♦k < S Council to-night resolved tn »* the new by-law relating to the Burnt .jjjng 0{ theatre seats should not com'o into operation uo.til the end of l T ■ year, when tho present licenses ex« P'.rc. It was also resolved to protest ' against the clause in the Municipal Con porations Act Amending Bill giving tho Parliamentary franchise for municipal polls, A WHALE'S SKELETON. Christchurch, Last Night. The Canterbury College Board of Governors, at a meeting to-day, decided to grant £2OO towards the cost of purchasing the skeleton of the Okarito whale for the Christchurch Museum, provided the public subscribed another £2OO. Messrs. Stead and Turnbull, owners of the skeleton, havo offered to give £SO each.

ACKNOWLEDGING PLUCK. Chrißtchurcb, Last. Night. Applications have been received by the Secretary of the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand (Mr. R. Linn)' i for awards in the c«ses of Douglas Hamilton, actor (a member of Mr. Frank Thornton's comedy company),. who on 12th August last saved a woman from drowning in the roadstead at Giaborne; and of William Jones, who on: 2nd June last saved Percy Martin from, drowning at Port Ahuririj Napier. .Caplain Hnwkes, of the Union Company's'; tug Tuatae, and Mr. Frank ThorntO'u support the application iu Mr. Hamtl' ton's case.

DECEASED PEKSONS' ESTATES. Wellington, Monday, !.'■■ '!:ig the month ending to-da» .„„ ■■..'.! e. of deceased persons wei" J .: •erlilied for stamp duty. »■" J nn»lly we;.. those of Thrauft' ille lftr S est (Wellington) £32,i»'> * Armstrong I -■■> . ; ,e (Canterbur- -'> )P'""" , R ' Shield (lfiwkjfc ' /) £20,740, Arthur C. Wilt;h» (P- Ba .V) £21.77.4, .Tames Jacob M»t'i* anterhury) £21,128, and The fcirjje- news (Wellington) £20,717. in .\ov st estates of deceased persons iii'a '' , Plymouth finally certified dur\V> ne month were those, of George <• .Uon, £2570, and Samuel W. Jack.,on, £1857.

A QUACK SENTENCED. Christehurch, Monday. "Hi" Joh:i Pcarso-a, who was found guilty of (in indecent assault nnd ae-' quitted of a charge of illegally using* an instrument, was sentenced' to six months' imprisonment. Police officers said the stntcinvnt that he was registered as n medical practitioner in Sydney was untrue, and that he bad * h»d record.