1The drought in North Otago has reached a critical stage. Unless it rains very soon, over 600 farmers risk having no grass growth until next spring.
2Two and a half thousand people rallied in Cathedral Square in Christchurch this afternoon over the proposed Homosexual Law Reform Bill. Although the rally was organised by opponents of the Bill, they were at times drowned out by large numbers of gay rights supporters.
3Around forty thousand Black South African mourners have attended the funeral of people killed in recent violence.
4While speaking in Kenya, Prime Minister David Lange has likened the apartheid system to Nazism.
5Efforts by Television New Zealand (TVNZ) reporter Bill Ralston to return to South Africa this weekend have been unsuccessful.
6Veteran broadcaster and actor John Gordon has died in Wellington aged 87.
7A huge flotilla of boats and thousands of people turned out to farewell Lion New Zealand as she sailed out of Auckland this afternoon, bound for England and the Round the World Yacht Race later this year.