DOMINION NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2429, 18 February 1909, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

THE AA'H ANG AR EI-KAAVA KA W A RAILWAY. (Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 17. The Hon. Li. McKenzie has instructed the Works Department to engage 100 additional men for the WhangareiKawakawa railway, bring the number employed up to 150. He stated that tlie final route of the North Auckland railway cannot be announced till after liis return to AVellington, but the Minister is fully convinced that the line should proceed as quickly' as possible. EDUCATIONAiL AFFAIRS. Despite strong protests by headmasters and assistant teachers the Board of Education, having ascertained that a certain proportion of officers wore favorable, while nearly 400 cadets desired to go into camp, resolved U> go on with the camp. The Chairman of the Board stated, after consultation with the headmasters and booksellers, the Board was quite satisfied that tlie- Government grant for free books .was not sufficient. The Board referred the matter to the Minister. THE COSTLEY HOME. The. Hospital Board, after consulting its solicitors, deedeid that it was desirable to bold a private inquiry into the allegations in regard to tlie management of. the Custlcy -Home before proceeding further. Tho public inquiry fixed for this morning was consequently dropped. THE GARRISON ARTILLERY. The No. 2 ’ Company, Auckland Division Garrison Artillery, in I j L o class firing, made a remarkable shooting figure, the mark of efficiency being 1.46, which boats the record ol No. 1. company previously announced in error to be winners of the Coast Artillery Cup.

NEW CHINESE CONSUL. WELLINGTON, Feb. 17. Yung Liang Hwang, the appointed Chinese Consul for New Zealand. and his family, arrived by the Ulimaroa to-dav to take up his residence in AVellington. The-Consul is a graduate of tho Baker University’, Kansas, and of Columbia College, New York. MANAWATU RAILWAY LINE. Recently a deputation of residents up the M-anawatu railway line waited on the Minister for Railways with a request for ait improved service, eoncessions, etc. Mr. * Millar has now icplied, refusing all requests, and pointing out that it would not pay the Government to grant them. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. • The supplementary list of the senior Civil Service examination includes the name, of Thomas Richards, of Nelson, as having passed in five subjects. ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. At tlie Police Court to-day, three men, John Trainor, AA T illiam ’Thomas, and George Williams, were committed for trial on a charge of assaulting and robbing an old man named James Carter”in the hack premises of a city hotel, on the night of February Bth. ILLEGAL A DYERTISING• At the Police Court to-day, __ Patrick J. Flannigan was fined £5 and costs £1 18s 6d for inserting an advertisement in the New Zealand “Truth” announcing hi.s -willingness to make bets on the results of the Wellington races last month. A DUNEDIN INQUEST.

DUNEDIN, Fell. 17. At an inquest before Mr. H. Y. Widdowson, Coroner, alone, on George M. Sullivan, who died at the hospital from injuries sustained on; Sunday evening by' falling from a hammock, a verdict was -returned that death was due to an accidental fall from a hammock, and was caused by meningeal hemorrhage, predisposed by a congested condition of the blood vessels of the brain. A DIVORCE CASE. CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 17. At tho Supremo Court, in divorce, a decree nisi was granted in tho case Chas. Ncwbery v. Ruth Newbory, misconduct .with Jas. Hamilton, £SO damages being allowed against corespondent. PRICE ON BLACK SHAG’S HEADS Tlie Canterbury Acclimatisation Society decided to-night to offer Is per head for heads of black shags, in or dor to protect trout, hi rivers under the society’s jurisdiction.