TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 9976, 26 September 1888, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER PRES3 ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 25. The Educational Conference has passed the following resolutions: — (1) That the teaching of trades and manufacturing processes in primary schools would be a great loss of time and for other reasons thoroughly impracticable ; (2) that it is desirable to extend the teaching of those scientific principles which underlie tlao processes of agriculture, metallurgy, and the mechanical arts ; (3) that scientific education would be of iittle benefit to those who have not passed the Fourth Standard. A miner named Frederick Somers went to cross the Waikato in a canoe at Huntley on Thursday last and has not been seen ninee. The canoe was fouad bottom upwarde. Edward Walsh, a dangerous lunatic, has escaped from the asylum. He was coca mitted to gaol sis months ago for attempting to shoot some men at Hellenevillc and there became insane. Should he go to Heleneville it is feared he will atcompt murder. This makes two dangerous lunaticß now at large in the district — one homicidal aod the other tha lDCsndiarist Spaulding, of whom the police have found no trace. Mr F. Lawry, M.H.R., addressed his constituents at Otahuhu last night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence, A crowd of men and boys assembled opposite Q-arrett Brothers' factory yesterday evening, a system of organised annoyance having been intended against the two men who had returned to work. As soon as they came outsHo the factory door hooting commencbd, but no attempt was made to maltreat them ; the presence of police having no doubtj a] preventive effect. It was estimated that the crowd numbered something like 200. The mob followed the men into Queen street, where the Inttor entered a tram oar. This evening at 5 o'clock a crowd again assembled in the street, but it transpired that tbe men bad gone home shortly after 3 o'clock, A man named Johnson has committed suicide at the Wade. No details are to hand. WELLINGTON, Sbpt. 25. A warrant has been issued for the arreat of an ex-pa blican from Upper Hatt who, it is alleged, obtaiaed a large sum of money by| means of false pretences. The accused left Wellington some days ago. The regulations nnder which various kinds of »toek may ba imported from Great Britain and horses from America will be gazetted this week. Stringent precautions are to be taken in the way of quarantine. Thus everything from Great Britain, with the exception of horses, must be shipped at London and can only be received at the ports of Wellington and«g Lyttellon where Soamea Island and Quail Island have been selected as the respective quarantine stations. The periods of quarantine will be as follows :— For horses, 120 days j Cattle, sheep, goats and deer, 90 days ; and dogs six months. A breach of any of the provisions contained in the regulations will render the offender, liable to a penalty not exceeding LSOO. The Chief Inspector of Sheep has received a telegram from the inspectors at Blenheim and Kaikoura intimating that clean certificates have been granted to the Mount Patriarch and Green Hills sheep, All the iiocke, therefore, in the South Island are now clean, butbefoie scab can be said to have been eradicated stray sheep have to be dealt with. A gang of men Btart in October to scour the hills on the Mount Patriarch country for wild sheep and Btragglers, this Being the only district in which such work remains to be done. With regard to the outbreak at Auckland no further scab has been de tected though constant and searching mepection has been carried out. The W\msS Jioofc ajs sow practically d«as f

but a certificate has .not yet been issued.'*! There is eviry probability that by shearing time the colony may once again be declared clean, that is, if tbe wild Bheep in, rough conntry have then been destroyed. There is this advantage in the present position : When the colony was laßt declared free from scab many of the runs were unfenced -, e now every flock is on fenced land, and a much more stringent Act has become law enabling any' future outbreak to be promptly and thoroughly suppressed., : , ■.. . . . One outcome of Mr MoOailum's labours" and Mr Meadows' visit to the colony is that the Government have determined to place special oars on the railway lines in this island for the carriage of produce, particularly butter. Four or five are ex« pocted to be sufficient to meet the requirements at present. The railway authorities will be enjoined that the contents of tnese cars are not spoiled by being unloaded at the wrong time or place. Application is to be made to tbe Supreme Court for a mandamus compelling the Unitocf District Aid Board to sue defaulting County Councils for tbe amounts! of nnpaid levies. The superintendent of the Cable Co. at Wakapuaka telegraphs :— " The Company's repairing steamer Sherard Osborne left Singapore to-day with sufficient new cable for the renewal and alteration of that portion of the Jiva Darwin cable recently iuterruptod by the volcanic ernption in tbe straits of Baly an<i Lotnbok. This is being done with tbe object of strengthening the communication with Australia at an expenditure of about L 25.000." MANAIA., Sept, 25. A shipper of cheese from the Manaia Factory has lost L 172 worth shipped by one steamer, whilst exactly similar cheese sent by another vessel reached Homo in splendid condition. •■ NAPIER, Sept. 25. The case of Mayo v. Sturrock, claim LIOO, for loss of his daughter's services through deafness, caused by defendant (a school teacher) boxing the ears of the child, who was a pupil in the district school, has been dismissed without costs. CHRISTCHURUH, Sept. 25. A girl named Lydia Delaware died suddenly to day. She had been suffering from consumption, and was attended by a female specialist. An inquest was held this evening and adjourned for a post mortem examination. At Lytteiton a boy named Neilaon, while playing with a dynamite cap to day, applied a hot iron to it. It exploded and severely injured his left hand. ' TIMARQ, Sept. 25. Fourteen thousand bushels of wheat and 6200 bushels of oats were sold by auction by the N.Z.L. and M.A. Co at Studholme yesterday — the wheat at 3j Id, ,3s 4<i to 3s sd, and oats at Is 10 1 to 2a. DUNEDIN, Sept. 25. la the matter of the Gridiron Hotel Justice Williams decided that married women are ineligible to hold a license, but etayed the isaue of a writ of certiorari pending the decision of the Court of Appeal. Tbe Eaglish football team met with an accident to-day winch might have had serious results. With several others they were driven to Brighton beach in a drag,and in returning, coming down tbe pinch into Green Island, the brake failed to hold, and the result was that the vehicle was capsized over a bank, smashing through a fence, and rolling into an adjoining paddock. A number of the occupante jumped out, but others were unable to get clear and were thrown heaviJy, but fortunately all escaped with slight injuries. Harper, of Nelson, sprained his wrist ; Haalam, the Eaglish player, bad his hand cut ; and Lillywhite was pitched fully ten yards, and received a severe shaking. The harness was a gsod deal broken, and one of the four horses received a severe wound in crashing through tha fence. The driver pluckily stuck to his team and so saved serious consequences. The annual horse parade under the auspices of the A. and P. Association was held to-day. The entries were more numerous than last year's, but the sales were not brisk.