INTERPROVINCIAL.

Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 78, 24 November 1885, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(own correspondent.) Auckland, Monday. The Education Board have fixed the salaries of the female head teachers at 50 per cent, less than male teachers. George Kingston, son of Captain Kingston of Wairoa, fell dead on Saturday last while talking to an acquaintance. Complaints having been made to Mr Moss, M H.R., that the ironwork of 80 freight cars now being constructed at the Newmarket railway workshops is being finished at the Addington railway workshops, although.it could be equally well done at Newmarket and the freight saved and local labor employed, he has forwarded representations to the Minister for Public Works on the subject. The Minister’s Association have protested against the proposed bye-law regulating street processions, and the City Council have abandoned the matter in the face of the opposition from various quarters. Napier, Monday. A heavy hailstorm was experienced here on Saturday last. In the country districts many newly shorn sheep suffered severely. The body of a man named Wakeham has been found at Ru’ipanga. Christchurch, Monday. A Phonographical Society has been started here. The remains of private Curtain, of the Sydenham Rifles, who died suddenly of heart disease while on parade on Thursday night, was interred yesterday in the Catholic Cemetery, with military honors. Over 600 volunteers attended the funeral, j