SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 162, 9 July 1907, Page 6

SOUTHERN NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) •MOTOR-CAB. AND TRAIN COLUSION. HASTINGS, this day. .<■ Mr. T. E. Crosse, who was injured in the motor-ear and train collision on Saturday last, is doing as well as can he expected, hut it will be four or five ■weeks before he is about again. Miss Schmitzex, the other injureu passenger, is doing splendidly and -will be out of the doctor's hands at the end of the week. PRESENTATION TO HON. GUINNESS. WELLINGTON, this day. A presentation by "West Coasters" to the Hon. A. R. Guinness last night included a serviceable gig, a set of harness and silver-mounted whip, and to Mrs. Guinness a diamond, ruby and sapghire brooch, and handsome purse. STAEFDTG OF SCHOOLS. NAPIER, thia day. At the meeting of the Education Board, last night, it was resolved: "That the attention of the Department be called to the present unsatisfactory • system of staffing the schools, and that the Department be asked to consider the advisability of staffing on the average highest weekly attendance, and that the Education Boards be authorised to send temporary assistance to schools that require it-" ALLEGED THEFT. OTTRT.STCH UKCH, Monday. A yonng man named Robert Henry Wob&house ■was committed for trial today on a charge of stealing £122 6/7 from the Christchurch Tramway Board. Woodhouse had been employed as a, clerk in the board's office, and the money, •which is alleged to have been stolen by him, had. been placed in one of the office draweza, in. readiness for paying the eonsferTHsiaon staff. BEQUESTS TO CHURCHES. ASHBORTQF, Monday. In his ~wHl fhe late Mr. Meredith Wileon, of made the following bequests:—The proceeds of a house and section in the town of Ashburton to the Primitive Methodist mission fund; £400 to Dr. Barnardo'a Homes; £300 to the Presbyterian Church extension fund; and £200 to the Salvation Army. The three last-named bequests are payable in about four years' time. CONFERENCE IN HEMP GRADLNG. WELLINGTON, this day. The conference of the chief officers of ■fie Hemp Division of the Agricultural Department opened this morning. The object of the conference is to arrive at a uniform system of grading, and the discussion will last about three days. WAITING FOR A RAILWAY. BLENHEIM, this day. The IJand Board to-day decided to notify 23 holders of <trna.il sections near the township on the Flaxbouine settlement that they must reside according to the Act or forfeit. It is hoped that this decision will help the cause of the Blenheim Flaxbouroe railway. There is not the least doubt that the settlers when they took up sections iwo years ago believed the Government intended to extend the railway at once. As a matter of fact, work on tSe line has not averaged a mile per year for the last four years.