1National MP Winston Peters is currently in Hawaii, meeting key figures involved in the Maori Loans deal, and says he has evidence that Treasury, and some Government MInisters were more involved in the matter than the Dean Report suggests.

2The latest unemployment figures have reached a new high, placing the Government under pressure to do something about the situation before this year's election.

3A Department of Labour report has revealed gross deficiencies in the way contract work schemes for gangs have been administered. However, it also supports a police report that there is no evidence of any criminality.

4Traffic problems on the Auckland Harbour Bridge have once again prompted calls for a second harbour crossing.

5New Zealand Railways engineers have called in a geologist to help decide the best way to get the Buller Gorge line back into service, following an enormous landslide.

6Stormy weather caused havoc in parts of the Waikato and Thames Valley this afternoon.

7The Housing Corporation has begun a promotional campaign to tell New Zealanders about a new Tenancy Act about to come into force.

8The multiracial South African Opposition group, the United Democratic Front (UDF) has accused members of the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) of murdering twelve Black people, including seven children in the Kwazulu township, near Durban.

9A West German citizen has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Beirut. A connection is suspected between this kidnapping and the detention of Mohammed Hamadi, held in custody in West Germany, suspected of hijacking Pan Am Flight 73 last year.

10Three men testing a video camera saved three young girls from freezing to death after they fell into a partially iced-over river in Edmonton, Canada.