Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY MARCH 20, 1891. TELEGRAPHIC.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1811, 20 March 1891, Page 2

Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY MARCH 20, 1891. TELEGRAPHIC.

(Fkom our own Correspondent.) Dunedin, this day. At the Land Board meeting, on Wednesday, Ranger M'Kenzie reported that John Brown, lessee of a section in Shotover district, had agreed to pay arrears after harvest. The Ranger was allowed to collect accordingly. A deputation waited on the Minister of Lands on Wedne»day re Inspector Moore leaving the police service. The Minister held out no hope that the decision arrived at would be reversed, but promised to report to Government. To-day another deputation waited on the Hon. Mr M'Kenzie in reference to a Government grant for new hospital building, and he promised to report the result to Government. At the Education Board meeting yesterday the question of school books and the reply thereon ordered to be sent to Government at last meeting gave rise to a warm discussion, when Mr J. M'Kenzie charged the Board with sending a discourteous reply to the Minister of Education, and he defended the lattei's action. It was decided to furnish all the information asked for by Government. Government are engaged in drawing up a scheme of classification for the whole civil service on the terms of Sir Julius Vogel's proposals in his financial statement of 1887. An indignant meeting held on the West Coast, of shareholders in the Equitable Insurance Co., have resolved that it is desirable to have an exhaustive enquiry into the affairs of the society. Miss Johanna Paterson is the new mistress of ;he Bannockburn school. A meeting of leaseholders in the city was held yesterday afternoon to consider the best means of obtaining relief by those who think they were paying too high rates. The meeting was unanimous in favor of introducing a fair rent biil in the House, and this view will be laid before the next Mitrtster arriving in Dunedin, to get Government to introduce the same. A Are broke out in the Arcade early this morning in the shop of Mr Aitken, tailor, but it was prevented from extending. The Jubilee and Tekapo steamers yesterday left Wellington for Sydney, taking between them 500 passengers.