NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6820, 26 September 1883, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[FROM OUK' OWX CORRESPONDENT.] ." - RUSSELL, Tuesday. The Whangaruru natives-were paid over the amount due to them for their share .in. the Puhipuhi block, on Saturday. j- This makes the purchase of the block by the Government complete. [PRES3 ASSOCIATION.] : WANGANUI, Tuesday. The Education Board torday. resolved, by a majority, to give Inspector Foulis three inonths' notice. of dismissal.: This, is -the outcome of a series of disputes and complaints regarding scholarship examinations and other" matters. Th"rc is a strong .feeling amongßt the- School: Committees in favour of Mr. Foulis. ■ - ■ WELLINGTON, Tuesday, v The Wellington Meat Freezing Company .send. 5185 carcasses mutton and 20,000 '.pounds weight of beef per the Doric. . . , An elderly man, named.:Harrison, a . carpenter. aged 65, dropped dead this morning. ■■■■' Edxvard Mullins has; beeri'arrested on a charge of.arson in ■ connection with the fire at the boarding-house at Taoa Flat. on Sunday. .■ , ....V I '.: , . : ;; CIIRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Josh. Piftkersgill's "Innocents Abroad Panorama " opened to'-riight, at the Theatre Royal, to a fairly good house. ; . The cottage destroyed by five on Sunday, at Sydenham,.. was insured, in .'the Royal, not the Standard. . V . , . .The Commissioners at. Rangiora and Mandeville'have granted a license to Mr. Lees, of the Royal Hotel, Woodend, which was re'n'sed alt tlio annual meeting. ' The Law' Examiners have recommended T.'Hay, ChristcburcK, for the Canterbury Law: Society's Barristers' gold medal, and :W. Cv McGregor, Dunedin, for the Society's gold medal for, the best set of solicitor's papers. . They have also made the following awards :—Certificate of merit for excellence of work,;:P. Kipperiberger. Christchurch; H. T. W. Halliwell, Dunetjin. Honourable mention : F. G. Raimond, Christsbnrch ; A. S. Adams, Dunediri ; J. A. Civgil), Christchurch. , , c." ' DUNEDIN, Tuesday. In' the City Court to-day, the proprietor of the South Dauedin Rope Factory was convicted of; employing hands after the legal hour prescibed by the Employment of Females Act, and fined 20s and costs. No arrest ha 3 yet been made in connection with the robbery committed at SearJiffe Railway Station on Sunday, when about £100 was abstracted from a safe.