INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6899, 10 February 1894, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Bsr Telegraph; — Press Association.] WELLINGTON, To-day. Government has decided that New Zealand shall be represented at the Canadian Conference. The question raised by school inspectors publishing a work of New Zealand flora has been referred to the Minister of Education, to inquire and submit a recommendation to Cabinet. In order to encourage the paper-making industry duty is to be remitted on machinery that cannot be manufactured m the colony. No date has been fixed for the licensing elections yet, the Act apparently leaving it to the Returning Officers to appoint any day they choose m March. It is understood some of them are thinking of fixing March Ist, m order that the new committee may take the regular quarterly business. It is stated, however that the Government are adverse to this, and the bulk, at any rate, of the elections will probably be after the 15th. ACJOKLAND, To-day. Mr Massoy, who contested Franklin with Major Harris, will contest Waitemata. Mr Jackson Palmer will also stand. Judges Prendergast and Connolly at the Supreme Court this morning declined to grant certificates of indemnity from prosecution under the Elections Petitions Act to Ernest W. Monk, son of Richard Monk, and James Stewart, junior, witnesses m the Waitemata election petition. The ground given for the refusal of certificates was that these witnesses had not made a full, free, and satisfactory discovery of all facts \shich they were cognisant of m connection with the election.