AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5196, 11 September 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Thames SuccessesThe result of the examination by the Board of Education as far as the Thames scholars are concerned, is as follows ; Annie E. J. Hall, (Waio-Karaka School), scholarship; while the following are en» titled to certificates :—J. H. Lawrie, H. Paterson, Alfred Atkinson, J. J. Kirn lin, (all WaioKaraka scholars,) and M. J. Gibbs, (Kauaeranga Girls' School), and Mary Blakely (Kauaeranga Boys' School.) The weather is very cold, and the thermometer was at 44 this morning. The R.M. decided yesterday in cases of judgment summonses, that in future he would make an order for payments by instalments, but without the alternative of imprisonment, except where default in payment, where a second judgment summons would require to be taken out. . 10,000 persons visit the Free Library daily.; Still hope for Massey I Gerald Massey was prayed for at the conclusion of his lecture on the " Fall of Man " last evening by a Salvation Army man. None of the ministers of religion invited attended. ■ The Employment of Females Act. Several cases were heard in Court yesterday for breach.es of the Employment of Females Act. The Bench pointed out it had no alternative but to fine where the Act had been contravened. Notices stating the hours of labor were required to be posted in all work shops, and no mutual arrangement between employers and apprentices could, be recognised, such as that referred to by Eraser and Tinne, who, during the winter months shortened the week day hours, working extra on Saturday to make it up. "Warden Kenrick and the "Waste Lands Board. Warden Kenrick has reported to the Waste Land Board that the land applied for by the Crown is not Crown Lands. He also recommended that the application of Messrs Swindley and Davies for a pro« specljng license be rerused. Permission was granted to Joseph Beunett to cut timber on his Homestead Section, Tapu.