INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5204, 10 February 1892, Page 1

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(nv Ti:i,i:nit.M'ir.) (PKlt I'KIOSS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON. February !•. At this afternoon's silling of (lie Synod, a bill for providing for Maori lay representation in diocesan synods liy making additions to tin? canons, was read n lirst, 11mo. A resolution was passed expressing (lie Synod's sense of tin; great. set-vices rendered to tin* Church of New Zealand, and especially to flu l Diocese of Nclhoii, liy I'islio]) Suter, mid assuring Mrs Suter of its profound sympathy with her in llio critical state of her husbaiid'shcalt.h, which lias necessitated his resignation. At to-night's sittim; of tin? Synod, the second reading of Bishop Ncvill's liill for constituting a hoard of missions for Iho ecclesiastical province of New Zealand was negatived, there not beinjj a majority of each onler in favor of it, as required l>y the rules of the Synod. Tin? division list, was as follows: -Ayes: Bishops, j clergy, l.'l : laymen, Noes : Bishops, 1 ; clergy, f> ; laymen, IU. CIIUISTCUWUCIL l'"eliniary !•. A boy named Thomas .lansen, residing at, Sydenham, was drowned in (he llcathcote River at noon to day while lishiii;,'. The body was recovered three hours after. TIMAIU'. February !•. A dinner is to be to Mr Moss • lonas, a former Mayor, on his retirement, from business as an auctioneer, stock and station which lie has carried on for over '2O years. llis bu«iliess has been purchased by Mr <«'uin liess (late auctioneer to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company) and Mr Henry LeCren, jnnr. (late of the National Agency Company, of Dunedin). IN'YKUCAUGILL. February !t. At, the Supreme. Court, William 11, 1011 is and Ellen Lewis were charged with t,he theft of a watch and appendages from a Cardroiia miner, named .lames Jones, in a brothel in The Crown Prosecutor otlercd no evidence against, tho woman, who was discharged, and t;avo evidence against Kllis, who was found not guilty. It is likely that, a considerable percentage of the wool lost in the Star of Erin will be recovered. Nearly all the tallow is already ashore.