TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5938, 19 February 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Peb United Pbess Association.)

; Aucfxand, February 18th. ' A painful accident occurred at Totatahi, Northern Wairoa. A number of telegraph poles were stacked on top of an embankment and parallel with the public road. Five children were playing round the poles. ,Two were seated under the bank and the other three running round, when one of them stumbled' against the poles. The outside pole turned over and dropped down the bank, striking one of the children, hurting her back, and instantaneously billing the other, a fine girl three years : old, and daughter-of Mr Saundera. At the inquest the jury expressed their opinion that tha Government were to blame for the carelesii manner in which the telegraph poles were stacked. Had the poles been end on to the bank all would have been Well. ■'. .-'I1- ;■■ "- . :

: There are 12 cases of typhoid fever and one of scartet fever in the Auckland Hospital; . The annual report of the Ladies' Benevolent Society showed the receipts to be LSOO. The Society relieved 135 cases, of which 67 were widows and 60 were deserted by their husbands. .:;• / . -i:-- . :,.. ' '

; A young girl named Annie Bell, who at the late enquiry at the Inctußtrial Home preferred certain charges against the late master, J. Shckley, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment as a common prostitute and vagrant.

John Parcel], contractor, has been committed for fraudulently lemoving .goods to defraud his creditors. Two charges of forgery' are yet for trial against him.

---' rr.u xr t - r, Cambridge, February 18th. The Native Court disposed of nearly all the subdivision cases on the list. Oaly.one succession case ,waa heard, the remainder hems held over for the arrival of the Crown grants

tang mad. In « art « Stt .- ,«,*„,„'',? 5? SRisawir.sjsll* A & Numbers of Natives are still arririnK from, all parts of the island. There wMfie 100& present at the opening of the Cowtou MonaaS?lhe Natives are exceedingly well behaved, aret 1/q^and:--

L, Nelson, Ferbuarv 15th

!. •-■■.-. V• February 18th. f (,- v° n —' £? cob, proprietor of? :S£K«SJS- &»\|«»|

; The meeting at Parihaka parsed off quietly^ The Commission appointed by the Government to wquire, into the maDagemeni: SlttL Alter two wihiesses had been examined the, nc^onr^ °n to morrow after-

win^f't6^ areteiD g ; taken to thoroughi^ prcspsct the Terawhiti dißtriet. •

i»K'-••'-■■ P?*?istchoch, February 18th;*-"!r ■■ A rabbi is now on a visit to Chrisichurch collecting EubscripUona from the Jewish ssclibn of: tbecommumty for hospitals in Bagdad. The Market Hotel caught fir! to-day br - h™ a™ i* c¥m^- lt ia time, and put out. Littla damage was done. t An»*°er- new J3«y lias -been . finished afr -■ Lyttelton, and was uaed for the first time yes— terday.-, • ..-....;...•■'.:. ?.-' :,-..-. -- .. * ■ v;: ■«£«!?•' hai^.lately been rei * moved in Lyttelton harbour by a novel proce 8 f£ — •The screw is imbedded goma 30f i in the clay and has a between Sit and 4ft id diameter. c A diyer went down with a lengtk of hose from the fire-angine ot a tug, anS .literaUy washed the mud away from the ecrew--■ ' rod by the force of the jet. The Bcrew was thus ; " cleared.and easily raieed. . : -V~ Th? Rev Mr Donglas, Presbyterian minister V; atAkaroa, has accepted a call to Hokitika and ~ leaves at the end of the month. . The Caswell Sound Marble Company has; been floated. A' meating of shareholders will"" ba called at an early date, and active operationscommenced in March. .

> The copper dam at the LytteHon'Dockworis ' is now fully completed, and waa tested to-day "' Ihe pump was set to work, and when the- : water was pumped.out, the whole .of the work stood splendidly. As this ia a critical piece oE ■■■• work, the result is very satisfactory; '' J It appears that it is the Government, not thepromoters of the Weat Coast railway, who hay© ' sent out the expedition to report upon Thornton and Browne's discoveries. .'. :~y.l '.'■"■■ ~~

_, / Tutabd,-Pebraary 18*. ■ X a-a n^ gram I 8 coming inrapidly in splen- - ; did condition. -A large number of vessels have.1 been chartered to load for Home direct thisyear. ■ -..-■ ::.:;: :. i ....-;::■..•■ ■; ;. .-''.,:i^l... -... . Oamaku, February ISfch. A man named Robert Miller had his thigh " fractured through a track running over him on. the breakwater line. James Mack waa cominittecl for trial to-day i?? .ffi m*n8,a robbery? He catered theWaitaki Bridge Hotel, and appropriating a- ' quantity of jewellry, got under a bed to escape " detection. The sister ia law of the publicaa. entered the room, and missing the iewelby, made a search. She discovered the thief underthe bed, and dragged him out by the hair o£; the head. He was seenred, and given in charge of the police.

-~SPECIAL-TELEGRAMS. - (JTROM OUEOTO COBBXSPOKDEKT.)

_, Ol -. Abcklasd, February ] Bth. . Xho bear,, in an article referring to Mr Pnltoaß statement' re educational expenditure in - Auckland, says:—"By ourDanedin telegrams we learn that Mr Fulton has read his threatened^ essay on this subject, and has proved by figures to his own satisfaction, and apparently lo that of _hia colleagues, who were easily persuaded, that the Auckland education district is exceptionally well used, and Ofcago very badly treated. It is a pity that persoss occupying positions held by theße gentlemen will not aefchonestly in dealing with a public question ; for - we charge them distinctly with a dishonest manipulation of informatior, which must have - been at their command, in ordar to make outa case against Auckland. Outside the question.' c£ education resrves—and Auckland- has 41 974. acres against 562,448 acres in Otago—we assertmost emphatically that it is capable of absoluteproof that Auckland has been much worsß" treated in the matter' of education than. Ofcago.Mn 1879 Aucklaad had 204 little Bchools to support, scattered over' a sparselysettled country, with an attendance of ""- ---10,688 children. Otago, compact in its r mode of settlement, had ,much tewer * schools with a largeratteridanee. * The number • of schools was 146, total average attendance .14,637. The Auckland Education Board received L 77.522 18s Id. and tho Obago Education Board" U2;318 17s Bd. -Poor ill-used-Ofago ! Mr Falton says the Auckland manage- ; ment is extravagant. Now, we admit that the * oosfc of the staff of the Central Board in Auckland h L 62.365 against L 1895 for Otago, and.that the excess in our case appears to be the necessary lump Bum paid to the respective Boardfl in very much larger proportion to - , schools and attendance in .Otago than in Auckland. Yet the Aucklaedßoardhaveagreatdeal;" more to do with their money. How have they kept their 204 little schools opsn? The answer - is plain—by starving teachers. Auckland has 387 teachers of all grades, snd paid L33.0U for salaries and tiayelling allowance, or LBS 106— '■ eacb. Otago has 359 teacher?, and pays them 1i47,345, or about L 132 per head. In Otago all ■receive housea besides L 132 a year. The - bloated teachers of Auckland:with their LBs> 10a are: without residences. We find that Otago, with its teacher's bouse to every school, actually received.. L 44.522 , a?aicst 28,748----granted to Auckland on building' account in 1879;--Wecharge';the Otago Board witlrgros* misrepresentation, and with; a wilful attempt" to create,; a senseless: outcry for which they-" ought to be thoroughly .r ashamed; ot them- '-■ -selves.?',...,: ~.;. '..„_.,- ■■"■■■. - ■-.."'"■■

j t» -« CKOirsvEEL, Febrnary 28tb.;': s Ur Corses an old Cromwell resident, dropped' dead.this mornin?. ;"Lri--;;:: •