INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2026, 2 December 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association). New Plymouth, Dec, 1. Th-; decree in the c,se, Harbor Board v. Sinking Fund Commissioners, was sett'ed according to Judg: Ward's judgment yesterday in the Supreme Court, The Harbor Board hive refunde i to them by the Judge’s ruling some £3),0<.0 which goes towards the cons'rucfcion of the work. Wellington, Doe. 1. The Premier has addrssse l a letter to the Premier of Canada directing attention, to the absence of interchange of trade with that D nninion, and has also addressed a circular to the various Chambers of Commerce in the Colony, suggesting that steps sliouhl ba taken to faster such trade. THE EDUCATION ACL Auckland. Doc, 1. At the City School Committee a resolution was carried that aepa.ate school accommodation 1)2 provided at onee for the purpose of bringing into practical operation the compulsory clauses of the Eluc atiou Act, a,id tint a truant officer be employed A SENSATIONAL RUM'HI Chris icuurch, Dec 1. A rum >r was circulate i in town t)-iay to the effect that Th >mas HnR h d Hurst a blood vessel and had dropped dead in the Timaru Court House. It was soon discovered that the rumor had no fou illation in fact and the exei'ement suls'ded, JUVENILE DEPRAVITY. Christchurch:, D c 1. There lnve lately bicu complaints, of children be ng se:n in a state of intoxioalion, and tho police have decided to take proceedings against two publicans for supplying liquor to boys.