1Opposition leader Sir Robert Muldoon has stepped into the debate over the future of Waitangi Day, saying New Zealand's national day does not belong to Maori alone, and that it is time to acknowledge that the British brought more to New Zealand than the Maori.
2A brawl involving nearly fifty New Zealand and American soldiers at Burnham Military Camp is being investigated by the civilian Police.
3Bay of Islands sheep farmer Jan Harm-Muller flew to Auckland today to help save the life of a sick woman in Sweden. He is only one of two people in the world believed to have the same rare Vel CEJKB Negative blood type.
4A Melbourne man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder New Zealand drug couriers Doug and Isabel Wilson five years ago. Their bodies were found in a shallow grave near Melbourne in May 1979.
5Prince Charles and Princess Diana have left St Mary's Hospital with the new Prince Henry Charles Albert David, to be known as Harry. Prince Harry is now third in line to the throne.
6A twenty year old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a threat to poison the water supply to the Australian city of Geelong.
7Police in Western Australia have arrested 23 Aborigines who went on a rampage in Port Hedland.
8There are fears that 'air piracy' involving plane hijackings has become the latest weapon in the four-year long Persian Gulf War.
9Israel's new Coalition Government has announced a 9% devaluation of the Shekel. Food subsidies and Government spending will also be cut.
10The Government is to introduce tougher levies affecting all off-shore trawlers which will be used to financially assist the in-shore fishing industry.
11Nelson fire fighters spent the day today mopping up the last smoldering remains of yesterday's fishing boat fire.