INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. -The ketch Isabella Def raine, blown ashore at Ahipara on. Saturday, last,' v is high- and dry oh the rocks, at low water, with a hole m her hull. Efforts are : beinjg made to float the vessel, but success' is doubtful. -. ■ The Waihi returns for July were £64,---320, being the largest monthly return recorded, making the total output £5,---846,967. ' A meeting of the Auckland Rowing Association' '.to consider : the suspension, of that body by the New Zealand Rowing Association, passed a resolution confirming the action of the' local Association m refusing to supply certain informatiori^demarided by th© New Zealand Association. The motion was not unanimous^ a large number voting against it. : The Auckland .Fire , Board appointed Messrs David Goldie and B. Kent to attend the conference at Wellington. . The steamer Como/ another South Amei rican trader bound for Sydney, .balled here to-day to replenish ncr bunkers. - NEW PLYMOUTH, tliis day. The annual meeting of the North Island Poultry Association was. held last night. Remits from Hastings, Wcbdvilie, New Plymouth, and Manawatu were withdrawn "or negatived. Exliibitors at Manawatu A. and P. Shojv were disqualified. • Mi C. Goodsoh, of Hawera, was elected president. The Inglewood and Moa Petroleum Companies liave everything ready to com : mence bb'rmg^ahd operations will start m a few days.^ .; :- . WELLINGTON, this day. The Appeal Court yesterday heard the case, . E. ,V. Rdddiford, of Hutt, : sheepfarmer, v. the Ikara District Maori-Land Board. The. question for the : consideration of the Court is whether the holding of the leasehold land is under 'section >_c ofi the Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900, as amended by section T5. of the Maori Land Laws Amendment Act,' 1905 a _ar to the acquisition of further Maori land, or whether those sections refer only to freehold land. . Mry Morison appeared for the plaintiff, and 'Mr. Levi for the de : fondant Board. Mr Morison contended that as by section 16 of the' Maori Land Settleriient Act, 1905, plaintiff was authorised to acquire leases ol Maori land up to 5000 acres; and as the lease acquired by liim was of some land which- he already held, and! the lease of which he had surrendered, plaintiff was entitled to have liis lease. approved. - Judgment, w_s reserved, i >o .. :.-y- : :;'yy-., ' ■'.-':'■';'■• 'yy A large safe m. Laery and Co.'s fruil iriarket Was dynamited during last night ahd a_out £40 stolen.' The place wa; entered by ari upstairs window, ,whiet . was reached from" the roof of an adjoin ing building. '■ The .burglars madg n< attempt t^' deaden the sound, :bu£ did (hi dynamiting, boldly. " The expigsJYe caus ed some damage to tho office. Dr. Starr, v Jordan, Presjclent of the Leland Stanford University, m a memo, to Sir Robt. Stput, Chancellor of the New Zealand University) makes an interesting suggestion, on general: university matters. Examination, he states,, .should be th« function of th© professor, and riot of the university. Requirenierits .of .degrees should be stated m terms of work accomplished, not in* terms of examinations required. Tup Chairman of the Professorial Board should have as many as -possible ot the functions of the America- university president: as yfar as possible.! . , Certificates of masters of approved' secondary schools should b e received In place of matriculation 1 examinations. In receiving students a. generous range pf subjects should be allowed, arid book cramming, especially m science, should be discouraged. In Americam experience, the best method oi adjusting tlie course is»thiough the "majoi professor" syste_v by which the professors m charge of the departriierit beconu the; students' advisers. The colleges m New Zealand should devote themselves primarily to tlie actual needs of New Zealand. Degrees should not be granted f for extra mural study, and m general not 'for attendance m night lectures or extension lectures. The taxation; bf university students- is a mosfc- oppressive form of State In general, the professor, as a teacher, has lar too little m initiative iri'-'Austra'lasiari'finiversities.- . y 7 ■ BLENHEIM, this day. -■■ A man '.'.named Sam Turn6r, agedy 35, married, a tailor .by trade, died suddenly last evening, suffering from hemorrhage on they brain. He took a fit arid expired. .< .-'"■. .- . GREYMOUTH, tins day. McDonald,: who was injured at.Runangii last night, died this morning. - ASHBURTON, this dayri, Joseph Ward,- one of the oldest residents, died this morning) aged 92. He had been a resident of the town for 36 years. He was the first schoolmaster, founder pi the public library, and filled 'many public positions. ■:■.'.'..'..'■■■ DUNEDIN, this day. ; Fulleri have acquired a lease of His Majesty's Theatre, so that they now coritrpl all the theatre properties m this city. Local dealers m ammunication are forwarding a protest to" th© Commissioner of Customs against the proposed increase of duty on sporting cartridges: frgm Is per hundred to 2s 6d. They say the proposed duty will amount to sixty per cent, on tlie cheaper grades and forty on, the best, grades, which rates are practically prohibitive, and will prevent a large number of cartridges being used m rabbitinfested country of ocago and Southland, where shooting is necessary as an auxiliary to poisoning and trapping. Petitioners allege that th© Colonial Ammunition Company, of Auckland, will alone benefit V the proposed increase of duty, and they object to a, monopoly being given tb one firm. ... • i.The Otago Phamaceutical Association are forwarding to the Minister of Customs a protest against the 5 per cent, increase m drugs and chemicals, seeing it will affect only 250 chemists. Mary Gibson, nee Flincher, pleaded guilty to making -dais© declaration ;at Ohristchufch when registering the birth of her child', and was committed for sentence. : (Special to, Herald,) : ? . A deputation of the Hai-bor Board left Dunedin for Wellington by express today. The principal business is m connection with an enabling Bill to authorise the Board to borrow, up to the extent, of £100,000 "but the deputation wdl. also enquire when aie Petitions Committee of Parliament are likely ' to report .on the question of Boards. The deputation consists of Messrs Robin, -Barclay, Ross, Dutliie, Bullock, "DeMa-us, and the secrer tary (Mr J. Blair Mason). ■ . The fourteen workmen'^ homes first erected on Windle Settlement are now all occupied.' Six other houses, twp ; storeyed ones, have since been erected, but no applications' for them have yet been ret ceived. ' - —___——■ — —^WPWi