INTERPROVINCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 1 March 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. New Plymouth, Feb. 29. The charge brought by Joshua Jones (Mokai), against three natives for destroying posts and rails enclosing a paddock alleged to be owned by said Jones, lias occupied the Police Court yesterday and to-day. The caso was dismissed on the ground that the fence was being erected on native land, and the lease Jones held was invalid. Costs were entered against Jones for £ls.

Wellington, Feb 29. , Tbo Minister of Defence lias issued a circular fixing the capitation for the year ending December, ISSS, which will be subject to a vote from Parliament, as follows :—Adult corps, 30s ; cadet corps, os. With reference to capitation for cadets, it is not probable that it will be continued after the expiration of this year. Regulations regarding the minimum strength of corps are to be strictly enforced, and no exception to this rule will under any .circumstances be allowed. Sir George Whitmore leaves for Nclroii

to-morrow to inspect the volunteers. He returns by next steamer and then proceeds to England, The Defence Department have issued instructions that all drill instructors when travelling are to be allowed steerage passage rates only on costal steamers. At the Education Board to-day, it was stated that Mr Lee, Inspector of Schools, wb'6 has just returned from a visit to England, had found that in education matters the Colony was not far behind the Mother Country. Though English and Scotch schools were bijilt upon a grander scale, the best schools in the district would no* compare unfavorably with those he ha< inspected. Sir Wm. Fitzherbert, local director o: the New Zealand Antimony Company, hai received a cable message from the Londor Board, intimating that Mr Nicholas Rejc had been appointed managing director ol the Company ip the Colony, and that thl services of My S. J?. Eogan, who has

hitherto acted as manager for the Tate and present been disppoaed with. _ Jr *-j - r ~ The committee of the Athenieum report to its subscribers that the support ac--corded is not sufficient to enable it to pay ordinary expenses of management. jJPfiey sudJnnt a resolution asking whether Hhc cubscrioer^rare willing to transfer the I whole of theiripi-operty to the citizens as an i’cicdowmentyof a free public librjiry, should'thcMai,ter bo agreesMfto accept the offer and library rate of a penny in the L formaintenance ; failing this, subscribers are willing to realise on the property, pay off the mortgage and establish iimmselyps fvfc a diminished expenditure. A vote will be taken. The Government grant to the Wellington Education ’Board for building purposes fop the current year is Ll-Ai. The Beard consider' the pmojinj, Inadequate, and a committee was appointed to’make enquiries and if necessary wait on Government, It was pointed out that the existing liabilities would swallow up the whole vote.

Dunhdix, Feb 29. Dr Hector has received a cablegram from Mr .Seed., stating that an extension of space has been granted to New Zealand in the Melbourne Exhibition. Our cx*

hibitors are now guaranteed 10,000 feet, and probably moro, in tbe renin building. Auckland, Feb 29. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency have received advice that meeting of shareholders in London it was resolved to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on tho I.3th of April, for tho purpose of passing resolutions increasing the capital of the company by an additional. £50,000 in twenty thousand shares of L 25 each; which shares shall be fully paid up ; but •on which sharks a dividend will be paid as if fifty shillings only JbacUheen paid. Interest in lieu of dividend will be allowed at the rate of five per cent, per annum on 'the remaining £22- lOs’fpaid for the said shares..,v v = • A?

Christchurch, Feb 29. The offences’ returns, for; tbo Christchurch police district, comprising tho country from Kaikoura to Dakaia, show that during last year 1914 offerees were reported to the police, against 1972 in the previous year ; 1805 persons-were apprehended, 51 less than in 18S6 ; 81 men and women were committed for trial ; 124 S men and 205 women were convicted ; 235 men and'3o women wep(f discharged. The offence which furnished thb largest number of cases was'drunkenness, with which 568 persons (425 men and 143 women) were charged. The total shows a docrease of 273 cases as compared with the previous year. 306 cases of larceny wore reported in 1887, 17 moro than in 1886 ' For this offence (larceny) 226 persons were arrested, of whom 23 were committed for trial, 154 - summarily convicted, and 49 discharged. 242 breaches of the Police Offences Act were reported, as against 164 in the previous year. The cases of house-breaking numbered 46, as against 4 in 1886. „ The Acclimatisation Society havo decided to petition Government to close Lake Ellesmere against net fishing for two years in consequence of the great destruction of large flounders, and also to prevent the destruction of young salmon.