INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 5

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(Per Frees Association.)

AUCKLAND, this day. Sharcniarket business done to-day : — May Queen, Is 2d ; iWaitangi, 7d ; WaihiPaeroa, 375 ; Hikurangi Coal, 19s. WELLINGTON, this day. A yellow-bellied wliale, about 70 feet long, was washed ashore at Lyall Bay early this morning. It had been dead for somo days. Tho death took place to-day of Homy C. Schlaadt, of the firm of Schlaadt and Co., woollen merchants, aged 63.

' Guard Cadman, who was reduced to the rank of porter m connection with the brakes of a train running between Kaiapoi and Christchurch, and whoso appeal was uphold by tho.' Railway • Appeal Board, has been reinstated, as doubt •has arisen on the subject of alleged negligence. The Appeal Board's decision was vetoed by tho late Minister for Railways.

■ The Rev. J. Dawson, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, m giving evidence before the Education Commission, said that -the- Alliance' urged the neces- 1 sity'df scientific instruction! m public schools regarding the effects of alcohol. -If the truth about the taking of alcohol were taught officially and systematically only good would result. Temperance wall sheets alone did' not meet tho case.

•The continuation of wet and cold weather has necessitated the postponement of all Arbor Day celebrations.

CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The death is announced of the Rev. Decimus Dolamore, , the oldest Baptist minister m the. Dominion, and' the senior* minister' of the "Baptist denomination m Australasia, at the age of 92 -'years.