TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume XXVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

| UNITED FBKSS ABBOCIATIOH.j Auckland, 27th October. The qneatdon of th* use of aohool buildings for religious instruction was further ducussed at the Education Board upon the resolution tabled by Mr. S. Cooper, and already been telegraphed. The discussion terminated by a unanimous acceptance of the principle that use of pubho school buildings for religious instruction within hours provided by statute shall be encouraged rather than opposed. A motion of Mr. W. P. Buokland, to the effect that Sohool Committees have a right to be consulted in tespeot of the removal of a teacher as well as upon appointments or diMnißiudw, was also carried. At a meeting of the Local Committee of the New Zealand Rifle Association a motion was carried that a letter be sent to the counoil of the Association to ask why men on reserve are debarred from competing for belts. Some members present were of opinion that as the clause was not retrospective, it only came into force with the present Act and regulations of 1883, and therefore did not apply. The first prosecution here under the Prisons Aot, 1883, resulted in James Gaffrey, for refusing to vrork, being sentenced to ■oven days' close confinement, and to forfeit 14 days' markka, Thib Day. Mr. Whitaker will, in all probability, leave on the 12th inst. for Sydney, to attend the Conference. The Hinemoa landed timber at Kawhia yesterday for huts for the Constabulary. The use of the racecourse has at last been obtained for the Bifie Association. Chbibtchubch, 27th October. Five thousand five hundred young trout were yesterday sent from Cbri.stcb.urch to be put into North Canterbury streams. Captain li. L. Owen is said to have been chosen superintendent of the Lyttelton Sailors' Home, which is to be opened on Thursday next. The four hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's birthday is to be commemorated in Christchurch by a tea and public meeting on 14th November, under the auspices of the Protestant Alliance. DuNEDrN, 27th October. The tramway line is to be extended to the subnrb of St. Clair, at the southern en.d. of the Ocean Beach. The Hussars wound up their week's drill with military sports on Saturday. These were successful, and were largely attended. The barque Jasper, on her passage from Mauritius, passed through large quantities

of ico and sighted one iceberg GOO foot high on 22nd July, when in latitude 47deg. SOnun. S. and longitude 27deg.W. Captain Stannars reports that he sighted a complete field of ioe, and aa he had twice formerly ran into the same field, ho is of opinion that it ia land covered with ice And snow, and this has also been seen by the barque Elisabeth and brig Bio Loge, both vessels being owned by Mr, Turner, the owner of the Jasper. This Dat. A three-months' old son of Mr. John Wbiteley was found dead in iU mother's bed yesterday afternoon. The mother, wh6, it is said, had been drinking, overlay the child. South Dnnedin larrikins took possession of an Ooean Beach tramoar yesterday, and threw out the guard, Farrell, who had one of his feet injured by a wheel passing over it. Opunaxx, This Dat. Mr. Maokay, Reserves Trustee, accompanied by Captain Wilton, arrived here on Saturday evening. They expeot to put 8000 to 10,000 acres of land botween Opunake and Rahotu in the market by the end of the year, or early in January. Most of the land is of good quality, and would make splendid sheep country. A sovere north-west gale is blowing horo, but the bay is very calm.