The Wellington temperance organisations intend canvassing the city for signatures to a petition to the Governor asking for the removal of those members of the Licensii g Committee who voted for the transfer of the Waverley Hotel license to Newtown. The overdraft of the Christchurch City Council, which bad exceeded £3.000 for several years, has been reduced to £935. Mr Edward Jermyu Matthews, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has been appointed Pro fessor of English Literature at Canterbury College. District Judge Kettle has reversed the decision of Mr Hutchison, S.M., fining the licensee of the Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton, £6 and costs for alleged Sunday trading. Mrs Tasker is to be asked by the Women’s Democratic Union to contest a seat on the Wellington Education Board.
WHY SWIMMERS DROWN.
