LATEST TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 40, 18 February 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS

[united press association. 1 Auckland 17th February, Quick, the English champion bicyclist of 1878, is a passenger per .iotomabana for Christchurch, to, compete in the bicycle contest next month. Tapihana, who led the Maori prisoners in the escape from Kawau, is dead. He was a violent opponent of toe Europeans. Inproceeding to the Port Albert Show, Mr. rf. H. Smith, the store inventor, capsized in his vehicle over a road catting. He got clear, and a child who was with him was saved from a frightful death by becoming wedged in and protected by two stoves, and received only alight injuries. This Dat. There are twelve cases of typhoid fe?er and one of scarlet fever in the Auckland Hospital. Christchttrch. 17th February. Last Sunday a little girl named Moore disappeared from her home, and has not been seen since. She was on that afternoon in the company of a woman fashionably dressed, and it is believed she has been decoyed and kidnapped. This Dat. The barque West Riding sails for England to-day with the first cargo ef this season B grain. Last season a Leeston farmer was offered Is lid per bushel for his barley, but thinking it insufficient he sent the barley home, and realised 2s 9} clear of all charges.

DussDiN, 17th February. At a meeting of the Board of Education to-day, the Bible in Schools Association wrote asking the Board to grant facilities for obtaining an expression of opinion from parents and guardians of children attending the State schools on the snbject of the introduction of the Bible. Mr. Begg stated that he had been aaked to explain the pur- _ <# poses of the association in applying to the board. They thought the only way «f getting a general expression of opinion from . 0 parents was through the teachers, and he wished the board would allow teaohaM to , , send by the children to their parents one or two questions printed on a slip of paper. These the parents would be asked to sign and send baok to the teachers to be forwarded to the association. It was retolvefl > " That the board wi.l offer objeoUon to * associations communicating directly with the teaohere in the district tor the purpose of getting the information desired." This Day. Paramor, Collinson, Harris, O. Haskell, W. Crawshaw, W. Parker, G. Millington, J. Hume, Spring, H. *3. Morrison, and W. Morrison (Dipton), with John Leith emergency, constitute the Otago team in the forthcoming match Otago v. Canterbury. Several members of the Education Board yesterday appeared greatly astonished at the statistics furnished .by Mr Pnltoli, i M.H.R., showing the extravagant «xpesfit> "? ture on school buildings, &0., in the Auckland distriof, at the expense of Otago. The statement of the hon. gentleman was endorsed by Mr. Firgus and other members of the board, who had recently made a tour through the colony. It was stated that in the Auokland education district the cost of management in 1879 was 5s 6Jd per soholar against Bjd in. Otago. The Forbury Park Company hat© agreed to sell their right to a new company, with a capital of .£40,000. It is intended to lay out grounds for crioket and athletics, to offer 60 acres to suburban municipalities as recreation grounds, and to improve the test of the Park.