INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10096, 13 March 1909, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(Pee Press Association.) WELLES GTON r . March 13. The Wellington Public School Headmasters .Association has adopted a report protesting against the uses to which the primary schools have been put for display purposes. The report submits that teachers have been overworked by extra tasks wliich have no proper place in the right education of youth, and some of the duties imposed on teachers on occasions of demonstrations are repugnant. As the practical outcome of the Association's deliberations it is hoped, concludes the report, that local bodies, the Government, education boards, and entertaining committees will on public occasions cease making demands as a mere matter of course on the pupils of public schools. Teachers should be free to withhold their assistance according as occasion commends itself to them or not. X"o woman should be expected at any time to undertake school duties outside the school grounds by way of spectacular displays. DUXEDDf. March 13. Efforts are lieing made to induce Arnst to remain for the Waihola regatta on March 23rd. At the inquest on Donald Watt, found in his hut, a verdict of death from natural causes—heart failure as a result of abscess on the liver—was returned. The old fellow had been a laborer and fencing tractor, in'the early days. Xo one had'any idea of his wealth. |

CHRISTCHURCH. March 15. Mr J. J. Kinsey, the New Zealand representative of the British Antarctic expedition, states that the Nimrod, with , Lieut. Shackleton and the members of the exploring- party, may return to New Zealand any time now: although she is not actually due until the last week of this month. The members of the '-Farthest South'" party probablv returned to their winter quarters at Cape Rovds in Maemurdo Sound in time to depart in the Nimrod not later than February 15. The scheme adopted was that the Nimrod, after taking the explorers on board and gettimr out of the pack-ice, should undertake scien° tifie investigation in the Southern seas. Jt the conditions for work of that nature are not favorable, it wiil be abandoned, and jn that case the vessel will probablv come to its headquarters in New Zealand without delay. Lieut. Shackleton has 13 men with him in the Antarctic. The Wakanai sailed from Monte Video on .March 11 for London. The Papanui arrived at Monte Video on March 12. AUCKLAND. March 15. A fire early this morning sutted two Lome street cottages owned by Mrs Crawford and occupied by Philip Gibb and George Broderick. Broderick's family had to leave the cottasre by an upstairs window. NAPIER, March 15. Captain Harold Williams, of the Dorset Regiment, who leeently arrived from England on furlough, received cable advice to-day that he has been appointed Assistant Adjutant-General on the headquarters staff of South Africa. FEILDING. c. , ~, . March 15. *>plendid ram fell last nisht and this morning, with a promise of more. The five weeks' dry weather had a bad effect on feed and stock, and prices showed a downward tendency. It is now expected that prices will show an advance. GISBORNE. March 13. yesterday afternoon Mrs Holloway received terrible burns about her body. She was melting beeswax on the stove when the was boiled over and shot into flames. She rushed to the stove and caught the dish in her apron, and when endeavoring to take it out the burning was set her dress alight and .6he rushed out screaming for assistance. Several neighbors were soon on the scene, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames after the poor woman's dress had. been almost completely burnt off. Although suffering intensely she had the preserve of mind to tell the helpers that the huise was on fire. Two gentlemen who had arrived by this time immediately went in and succeeded in putling out the Dames before any serious damage was done. Mrs Holloway was carried into her room, where the doctors who had been sent for bathed her wounds in oil and limewater and wrapped them in lint. She succuumbed to her injuries at six o'clock this morning. Deceased, who was a young woman, leaves one child. ASHBURTON. f March 13. Logans Hotel, a large two-storey building of 25 rooms at Tinwald, was completely destroyed by fire late last night. No one had been living on the premises for several weeks, and the furniture had been recently removed, but a tenant was to take possession to-day. The hotel was insured under a policy held by Manning and Co., Christchurch. but foT what amount is unknown. -^