TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10418, 22 July 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(Pes. United Pbess Association.)

■-..'.; AncßaitrD,. Juiy-20. Dr Joseph Cook hag commenced a lecture season st the ;Ciiry Hail. There'w&s a large attendance at his.first lecture.*

By a fire at Eden J terrace, G-Uand'sgreen-grcc-ry building was gutted. Thestock was insured for, £.0 in the National office. The premises of M'Naughton (hairdresser) and Hawes ; (bootmaker) were also damaged. Hawes's stock and furniture were insured for £150. in the Rojal;' M'Naughton's were uninsured. The three shops were under one roof, and were owned by Mrs Jane Robertson, who is insured for £250 in the New Zealand office, The damage ib estimated at £300.

It has,; been reported to. tho collector A of customs that logs were adrift'id the fairway between Kawau and St. Rodney; ]' The cutter Corealis narrowly escaped collision with one.

iJjt'77 : ' CraisicjßJDHCH, July-21. At a meeting of the Canterbury Educatienal Institute, resolutions were curried---" (1) Noting with satisfaction that the Minister for Education has taken charge of the Teachers' Court of Appeal Bill, and tbaufeiiig Mr G. J. Smith for introducing the bill. (2) That this branch of "the Educational -Institute approves pf abolishing the practice of prize-giving in schools." It was resolved that the instituta use their best efforts to" fnrther the wishes of the Industrial Exhibition Committee with regard to encouraging exhibits from children in attendance at the public schools, but wauid suggest that the element of competition between school, and school should be rigidly excluded..

At a parade of the Christohurchand Lyttelton volunteers' Ust night, the volunteer officers' decoration was ' pubiiely presented to Colonel Sumpter, Msjors Slater, Wolfe, Young, and Headland.; Lieutenant-general Fulton, lata R,A;j'made the presentations. -