TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9390, 1 April 1892, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.) Auckland, March 31. The now trial of the action the Commissioner of Customs v. Sharland and Co., is to be applied * for. 1 The suggestion that tho dispute regarding ] the champion whaleboat race should be referred 6 to the New Zealand Rowing Association will 1 not be acted upon, and the action by the AA'ai- r temata Boating Club for tho recovery of the first prize will therefore proceed. < AVellington, March 31. i The Chamber of Commerce to-day declined ■ to give its patronage to a large meeting of the Railway League to be held here in a few days, , on the ground that it was a political matter. J Christchurch, March 31. Mr T. H. Anson was elected chairman of the North Canterbury Board of Education to-day. Tho report of the board for 1891 was received, and consideration deferred to next meeting. It states that the expenditure on buildings during the year was L 7612; on teachers' salaries, L 53,091; and grants to committees aud incidental, L 6989. The average attendance was 17,51-1. The cost per head for teachers' salaries was L3 0s 7-_-d, and the total cost of maintaining schools L3 8s 7-kl per head. The teachers in the board's employ number 553, the school districts 151, and schools 170. The inspectors' reports show a substantial rate of progress. Ashburton, March 31. At the Magistrate's Court to-day judgment was given by Captain AVray, R.M., in the case of Kelly v. Moore. Plaintiff, treasurer of the local Hunt Club, sued for the amount of a cheque given by defendant in payment of a sum due to the club by a former secretary and dishonoured tho cheque. Evidence was taken last week. His worship said the cheque was evidently given under the impression that it would stay the criminal proceedings pending, but at any rate given under the impression that the amount to meet it would be provided by the security of debtor's property in the defendant's hands. This security was seized by the debtor's other creditors, consequently the cheque was not met. It was never contemplated that defendant should pay the amount out of his own pocket, as clearly there was :no consideration. Plaintiffs elected to be nonsuited, with costs.