INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1063, 17 April 1890, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Electric TeuegeA£h.) (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Dunedw, April 17. . Mr. John M'Gregor was unanimously elected Chairman of the Education Board at a special meeting yesterday, Mr. Henry Clark, the retiring Chairman, declining to stand. V f The Rev. A. P. Davidson, Who will act as colleague to the Rev Dr: Stuart in connection with ILnox Church, arrived last evening. He will be inducted on 30th ins't.

The dead body of a man named John Sheehy, an inmate of the Old People's Refuge, has been found in the harbor at Auckland.

It is reported that, owing to the continued downpour of rain, the township of Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, is surrounded by water. The revenue returns for the year ending 31st March are completed, and provesT the ."surplus to be £115,174* The accounts have, however, not yet been audited, and there niay be some slight alterations. The " Times'" Wellington cori'&» spondent has obtained important advance figures relative to New Zealand trade during the past quarter of the financial year. Imports for the past quarter were valued at £1,685,521, and exports at no less than £3,792,952. The figures for the March quarter of 1889 were £1,721,95S and £3,417,734 respectively. The value of imports for the financial year ended 31st ult. was £6,260,630, as against £5,208,224 for 18S8-89. The exports reach the huge amount of £9,714,513 as against £8,201,409 last year, or an increase of over a million and a-half in a single year.

A public banquet is to be given to Mr. John Roberts, President of the Exhibition, at which a testimonial of a fitting character will be presented to him.

The police have discovered a clue in the New Plymouth murder case of great importance, and are now confident of being able to prove that the Maori now in custody committed the murder. It appears the boots which prisoner wore when arrested ha,ve been identified as belonging to the murdered man. Deceased purchased them, and afterwards had the heel partly taken off, and the man who made the alteration in the boots can identify them. Accused.states he purchased the boots at a certain store in Opunake, and the police are prepared to prove he did not. The police are .accumulating other evidence of damaging character, and there is little doubt but they have got the right man in custody.