NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1970, 21 February 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

|IJV TiaKCIUl'H.— I'RK-S ASSOCt VTHIV ] WANGANUI, Tlmiailay. At the licensing elections to-day, the tempera ice candidates wcic all defeated A man named McDjnald, piospecting at Tokom.irn, has s nt tlic Hcrahl some quartz specimens showing gold, found at Tokomaru up the Wlianganui River.

WELLING ON, Thursday. A bonus of sixpence per g.illon will l>c pawl oa kerosene pioduced in the colony to an extent not excelling 00.000 gallons, in quantites of not less than 10,000 gallons at a time. At the licensing elections for Cook Ward, the publicans seemed tin ee out of rive caudulatea. Ft id. iv.

The Boaul of Heilth Authorities lia\e taken steps to have the house from which Kate Kelly, the puerperal fever patient who died, was tiken thoroughly fumigated. No fuither eases of blood poisoning have ojuurrod at the hospital. CHRISTUHUKCH, Thuisilay.

The Hon. Messrs Stout and Larnach arrived here from Spiingfield thi«< morning. Mr Stout met a deputation ef the Industrial Association on local matters, and had a private interview with Mr A. T. Stuart, Pictnier ot New South Wales. Mr Larnacli left by special train for the North, en route for Nelson, at a quarter to five p.m. At a meeting of shareholders last night, it was resolved to wind op the Temper-

ance Hotel Company. We aro having beautiful harvest wcathor — the best known for many jcars past. The repoits legauling the. crops are of thu most sat natuie. DUNEDIN, Thursday.

At the Education Bowl to-day, the following letolution was canicil :—: — '•That, hi the opinion of this hoard, the mode in which the Minister of Education has appointed the vote for school buildings is not fan to this dtstiiet, and that the only fair method of rii\idiii<; the \ote is liy t.ikina; the average* attendance as the basis of .\ppot tionitiir." The amount allotted to Ot^o is £10 GJS.