1The Cabinet has deferred a decision ion which American warships can visit New Zealand until next month, but Prime Minister David Lange says New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy is unchanged.

2A violent electrical storm hit Auckland and the Waikato last night, causing widespread damage and killing one person in Te Awamutu.

3Auckland Police have provided the Queen Street Riot Inquiry with their version of events today.

4A New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Orion has been searching today - without success - for a mysterious orange slick reported in the sea east of Tonga.

5Meat inspectors at Auckland's freezing works returned to work this morning after walking off the job on Friday over a staffing dispute.

6Unions and employers involved in the dairy industry's wage talks were today told to "settle down and get on with the job" by the Chief Conciliator. Meanwhile, the Meat Workers' award talks, which collapsed ten days ago, are scheduled to resume in January 1985.

7New Zealand's four container terminals remain idle tonight after plans to get watersiders back to work were disrupted by a new argument which erupted in Wellington.

8The Marsden Point Refinery Construction Consortium says more workers have signed back on to work at the expansion site today.

9A defamation suit brought against bankrupt former Labour Party MP John Kirk by new Sydenham MP for Labour Jim Anderton, reached the High Court today.

10A survey undertaken by doctors at St Helen's, a leading Auckland maternity hospital, has found that mistakes cause about one-third of deaths among newborn babies there.

11There will be no special screening of organs used in transplant operations in New Zealand, despite reports from Sydney that two people dies after receiving kidneys from a homosexual donor who had AIDS.

12Auckland's non-conformist religious community, known as Centrepoint, today moved some of its members into ten old buses parked on the roadside near its property. The group has just been evicted from a rented house in Glanfield because of alleged overcrowding.

13Offshore oil drilling for the summer season has begun off the coast of New Zealand between Taranaki and Cape Farewell.

14A Christchurch scientist says the site of the old City Gasworks contains dangerous substances that could cause cancer.

15Fears of another potential poisonous gas leak in Bhopal have eased as the Union Carbide Company converts the remaining gas into pesticide.

16Police and supporters of the banned trade union Solidarity have had their worst clash for a year in Gdansk, Poland.

17British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has left London to complete an unprecedented round of talks with world leaders from both the West and the East. This leg will see her meet with China's top leadership followed by American President Ronald Reagan. She has just completed talks with senior Soviet MP Mikhail Gorbachev.

18The Government of Belize has suffered a crushing defeat in the country's first election since gaining independence from Britain three years ago.

19Foreign squid boats have been sailing into Wellington in considerable numbers in order to collect licenses to fish in New Zealand waters.