INTERPROVINCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 9154, 8 June 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Per United Press Association.]

AUCKLAND, June 8. In the course of an examination in a civil case -to-day Mr Justice Conolly remarked that there was a great cry about the Civil Service, but he believed the Government offices here to be undermanned. WELLINGTON. Jine 8

In view of the possibility of an influx of teachers from Victoria, where large numbers have been retrenched, the Minister of Education has remodelled his former reply to applications, pointing out that the number of teachers trained in the colony is yearly increasing, and that applicants from a distance will have little chance, however good their certificates may be. The Government do not intend to do anything re. the Midland Company's proposals till Mr Wilson, the manager, arrives in the colony. m The Government now have control of the Estimates of the Legislative Department, and in framing them wish to utilise the spare time of some of the officers of both Houses, but both Speakers have raised objections, and nothing so far has Wen decided. BLENHEIM, Juni: 8. Mr Mills, M.H.R., has instructed his solicitor to demand from the proprietors of the ' Post' an apology for, of retraction of, their paragraph of April 24, accusing him of improper motives in connection with the purchase of the Rai Valley Tramway, and, if not satisfactory, to issue a writ for £I,OOO for libel. CHRISTCHURCH, June S. With reference to the medal received by Mr Tregear from a bogus literary society, ' Truth' exposed the whole affair on the 27th of last month, and proved conclusively that no such genuine society existed. The same journal exposed the WorthingtonPmnkett scandal some days before it was taken up by the other papers, and is now engaged inquiring into the bona fides of an advertised electric healer who is touring the colony.

The weather here has been remarkably fine, but very cold. The frosts during the last few days have been the most severe experienced here for some years.