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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4305, 14 March 1901, Page 5

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PBEBS ASSOCIATION. ' ' .. .NAPIER, March 13. The Premier arrived at Hastings tonight, being met by representatives of the Masonic fraternity.!) Later on Mr Seddon opened the new Masonic Hall of the Heretauiiga Lodge 1 . There was a large attendance of Brethrefij “including visitors from other parts/ , The”'ceremonyWas a very impfeesiyp. one.. A banquet was ■ held subs«jueutly• - -.The, Premier comes on to Nepier in the morn--IDg' ■C ’ TIMARU, March 13. The Board of Education, to-rday .rosolved to refer ‘tolts'spnoitor'for adrice the question of how a/payou t .who claims free education in the literal sense of the word, and refuses to /ripply his childremwith school books or .pay. for those supplied by : teachers. Considerar tion of the application of the Timaru Dis-' trick High School was postponed,. . Xhfc committee states that forty pupils arh in the Seventh Standard, aruT argue that the change would not.ihjure High School, but lead to the institution acting: as a “feeder P, . ’AUCKLAND,; March 1,3. t,. A fire at Papakura has,. destroyed Messrs Coulthard Bros.’ mill and plant. The insurance amounts to £2OO in the New Zealand’office.:’ f The loss 1 is estimated at £I3OO. : !. -- i-

“ ;;GISBC)RNE, March’lS/ .|n-ived this mQrniug.to.make certain pb-, eervations' with regard. tp, geolqgica( strata- in/thi® district/ The- inf pwnatiop,' ; it is understood, ’is: being, obtained; at the request (if Professor Boverton Redwood, the eminent bn leumi, with" 'the" of tfle latter ;to locate bR, prospecting 'opbr'atioiis. s'hhll’MffipT&hb6)r' :1 i .■ DUNEDIN. -iMaroir 13-:» It is stated that Captain Robert Fra. ser (eldest son of the Hxm/F.-iH. Fraser, M.L.C?.) , fra® bqeii Appointed,; by r the Government ’to" command the’ new l defence vessel . which is, being built at Home to,their order for submarine mining : purposes. Captain Fraser will leave Wellington in the steamer Rimutaka on the 1 28thj instant ,toi,.brjpg new vessel. ’ “ ;

~Waikouaiti jvas- on /fete; the: sixtyVfirst anniversary or the arrival of the brig; Magnet,* rvyith celebrated by a picnic; arid “st»eial'’i'. under the auspices of the' -Early Settlers’- - Association'. Waikouaiti was a prosperous' whaling station- before! ! thSt®date, f hut -1 whalers becoming very Jqhii. I '.' Jones,, who, nwnedVtp}p r ,stationi,,tuvnp3 ■life: attention/to, agricultiiyaljfAnd .pas- . toriil pursuits, and brought fropiSydnoy in I the Magnet, r Oh these only, eight at present .- alive. Three heads of families still survive, all of whom are womepV on© Being eighty-six years old) " and ;,tTO others cijdity-four. 1 >; * JV. >. ■ William Richard pleaded guilty at Invercargill to breaking and 'entering'^ an ! d - sfealhigl 'the • yalue of £2, was'brought befofC-Mr Justice Williapis, .and, .to Vjsix months’ h&YdTabbui-; t6'66tniheiic6'-at thej expiration of his present,senjjeppft.; ■/ i i . 1 ‘""ii" ■■ ■ -