GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 144, 14 December 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

ALLEGED THEFT. • By Telegraph—Press . Association. Wellington, La'st Night. In the Magistrate's Court to-day Frederick William Green, a middle-aged man, formerly secretary of the Wellington Working Men's Club, who was arrested by Acting-Detective Bailey, was remanded until the 20th inst. on a charge of having stolen about £2O, the property of the club. Bail was allowed in a surety of £IOO. RURAL SCIENCE. Dunedin, Last Night. The institution of rural science courses in the district high schools has made such a favorable impressioniupon the country people that the Otago Central Education Board has guaranteed a sum of £l5O towards the salary of a third instructor /to take classes in that district. This contribution guarantees a salary of £3OO a year, as it receives a £ for £ subsidy from the Government. The Education BoaTd this morning proceeded to appoint an instructor. Mr. 0. S. Ridley, of New South Wales, who was finally chosen for the post, is 25 years old, and was a pupil teacher at the Sydney Training College and Hawkesbury Agricultural College, and since 1908 has been Government experimentalist at Yanco Experimental Farm. SLY GROG-SELLING. Dunedin, Wednesday. Margaret Parker, owner of the. exRacecourse Hotel at St. Kilda, was fined £75 and costs for sly grog-selling.