TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 10055, 4 January 1889, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(f»SB PRESS A88OCIATIOH.) AUcitAktl|iAM.3. |; A'exawder -McCoMobb' received serious ( injury on Tuesday night. He tn nnharnewDg a horse when the animal kioked him nnd trod on him when down. He is not expected to recover. In reply to-a denotation who orged the repeal of the Contagions Diseases Act the Governor , said be would lay tbe question before his Ministers. At the annual sale of thoroughbred yearlings from the N^w Zealand Stud Go's estate there was a very large attendance. : The highest priced yearling was '# colt by Nordenfeldt-Locket purchased for 500 guineas by Mr Stead, who also bought "a colt by Nordenfeldt-Radianoe for 375 guineas Mr Bailey bought a - filly by NordenfeldtOuida for 250 gainew, and Mr Gollan a filly, by Kiug Cole-My Idea for 230 guineas. A farewell address f rom the citizens of Auckland was. presented to the Governor to-night. Sir Wm. Jervois expressed his regret upon leaving the colony, and said ' that he had contemplated taking op bis abode here. He stated that Lord Onalow was exactly the man who would be liked as Governor of this colony. WELLINGTON Jan.3. In oonsequence of disclosures made it has been 1 decided to hold an inquiry into the fire in the hoose of Mr Bigg at Newton on Ohrißtmas morning. At the meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Educational Institute today a motion wm carried— ''That tbia Council, while advocating temperance principle*, does .not think Dr Richardeon's Temperance Lesson Book the most suitable for that purpose, and does not .approve of its aie ai a text book." Recommendations from .; the Education Act Amendment Committee were considered, and a pioposal tint; the appointment, removal, uod payment of inspector^ should be placed unde^r the control of the Education Department was adopted; ■ Proposals that the appointment, etc:, of teachers be vested in the central authority, and. that teachers be empowered to elect one member to Education Board* were not agreed, to. A deputation waits on the Minister for Education to-morrow relative to various matters affecting the teaching profession. The report of a committee recommending that the Government be requested to return to the system of paying on the woikinp, instead of on the strict average was agreed to. The Customs revenue for the nine months . of " the . .'financial year waa L 1,095,242, which ia a deficit of L 26,258 on the Treasurer's estimate for that period. The beer duty for the nine 'months ia L 36,651, being a deficit of L 1598. TtM Government \baye made a grant of 50,000 rounds of ammunition to the New Zealand Rifle Association in lien of the usual money grant.. . The Premier has received information that Admiral Fairfax With the squadron will teach here about the 15th 1 Jnst., and that the. Admiral in the flagship' will leave fot. the West Coast Sounds- on the :4th.;.:.:;;:.;' ;.:.;;...: „,.. A> young man named Frank Reeve has been committed >for trial for forging two cheques for L 2 and L 2 ss. ■'.! WAIPAWA, J&.3. The; weather is intensely hot and fires are raging in many parts of the bush district. The pasture, is being burned up by hot winds and in some places the aheep are being driven to water. WANGANUI, Jan. 3. To-night a man named Reuben Bason took oat a warrant against his son ior robbing bis orchard of apples: The boj has .been arrested and will be brought before a J P. to-morrow. The local Caatoms receipts for the last quarter Bhow an increase of nearly LI 600 over the corresponding quarter of -1987, NAWER, Jjtoß. A email double chop occupied' by Afhworth, (bootmaker, Shakespeare road, waa destroyed by fire this morning. Insurances: building, LI6O in the Boutb British : stock, Ll3O in tbe Imperial. -^ f J. G« Kinross, the oldest: merchant in Hawkes Bay, has filed a declaration of in* solvency. Tbe estate is a large and complicated one. He bad made ail preparations to assign the .estate, ; but one large creditor would not agree at %hk last moment. j J '* Two girls named Gaotbam, aged 10 and 12, were to-day convicted of stealing and sent to the Industrial School. . Their father was found guilty of receiving the stolen goods, and was sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment. .;,::' ; \- A ploughman named James Doyle was drowned at Mobaka to-day. ■ GBEYMOUTH, Jan:?: The total quantity ot coal, coke, bricks, and fireclay exported from here last year waa 163,734 ton?, being an increase of 3723 tons on tbe previous year. OHBIBTGH URDU, Jan, 3. The Secondary Schools Conference today resolved to request the Minister of .Education to prepare and eubmit to Parliament an Act defining the relationa between Boards of Governors and principals of 'secondary school*, and providing that principaU shall have control of internal discipline, choice of books, and methods "of organisation, and that no assistants be appointed or dismissed and no change made in their status without the reiDb'm* mendation of a principal. The Conference also decided that it is desirable to increase the number of junior university^ scholarships, which should be divided into two divisions— one for special excellence in particular strbjects and the other to encourage general proficiency in all school subject* ; and that the 'degree of proficiency neceßiary for matriculation should be increased. Io the R.M. Court to-day a wife deserter named Geo. Stokes was.aent to gaol for 6 ruontbi. Peter Pascbe, for pUying an illegal game on, the Christcburch race* coarse with a wheel and table, called "Fly,"waafioedL2o. ':.. m ';■■-" OAMABU, J^.3. Two fires occurred to*day — ' one <at Ngapara and one in town. There was. an insurance of L 420 in the Sooth British offl c in the one instance and io the other the insurances are not known. A man named Geo. Lewis died saddenly last night in his garden. A deadlock has taken place in the borough i council. At the last meeting the question. of the Mayor's honorarium wai raiaed, CouociHors were, unable to agree and decided to uke the sense of the meeting by a kind of ballet. After ascertainiDg; the . feeling of tbe meeting 'it was resolved that tbe amount be LSO^ ' This was a reduction of LSO on the previous mayor's honorarium. At the meeting to* night the Mayor refused to allow the minutes of last meeting to be read, saying that as the method by which the amount of the honorarium km fixed was illegal the minutes were also illegal. He refused to accept a resolution on the subject aco) four of the councillors leaving the room there was no quorum present and the meeting broke up. The Mayor holds that the amount of the honorarium was fixed by ballot and ii illegal and several of tbe councillors bold that the unanimous resolo* tion of the Council was perfectly legal. . PUNEDIN, Jan. 3. At the Caledonian sports today the Border wrestling was won by JDonn. Five-mile bioycle race— Crow (800 yards.)/ 1 ; Fraaer (BSO yards), 2 $ Laorenson ' (scratch), 3. Oae mile bicyle raoe— ' Laureneon, 1 ; Mitchell, 2 ; Hooper, 3, Tt»« OQoiolitioa wrestling was won. ky J.

Bailivan ; J. B l «?!«>sf second. In the Dan«iiß.handio«i> and 440 yards) J 1 ; Peteraob and D. Daocan divided.

A number of fo ged Na'ionnl Bank on' pound noies nre in circulator, ten havt> been detected up to ths present. T c forgery Km been done by photographing ;■ gennioe to*».