TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1806, 23 October 1888, Page 1

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

A resolution making the use of Dr. Richardson's' temperance lesson books compulsory in the public schools waa carried on Friday by the Auckland Board of Education by a majority of one. By H.M.S. Egeria, which has been stationed in the Tonga Group, a complete survey ia being made round the island, and a new passage has been discovered into Mikualoaf Harbor by which yessel* can enter with any wind.

The competition at the Crown land sale at Wellington last week was very keen, and the sale one ot the best ever helJ in that provincial district. There were 332 applications for seventy-five selections. The area sold was 26,547 acres, and the capital value £21,979. The electric lighting contract between the Wellington City Council and the Gulcher Company, according to the Mayor's explanation, provides, at a cost of £1775 per annum for services which now coat £I7OO, while it will increase the number of lamps from 260, alight for five hours per night, to 500, burning from dark to daylight. At the District Court, Westport, on Friday, George Mears was found guilty of indecent assault and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. The basis of the abolition of the Pubic Works Department has been settled, and the result is that fifty officers throughout the colony wil] ba dispensed with at the end of December, and fifty during next year- '