INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1579, 10 May 1887, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

At the Auckland Board of Education meeting on Friday, a very strongly worded report was submitted by Mr O'SnUivan, Inspector of Schools, in which he says that the education system built up with such labor and travail is crumbling. The Press Association ha?e expressed their regret for having published a paragraph on Apil 14th, which appears to reflect upon Mr William Hooker, patentee of the platinum burner for incandescent light. Arthur Smart, fifteen, committed for trial at Duuedin for indecent assault,.was unable to find bail. He was released under the First Offenders Act. Tiie Southland Frozen Meat Company have made an agreement with Tyser and Co., of London, to run four steamers annually between the Bluff and London, carrying frozen meat. The first .vessel is to sail in September next. A young man named Edward White, residing at Kaiwarra (Wellington), was thrown from his horse on Friday evening through colliding with a boy. He remained unconscious and died early on Saturday morning. Three men left Waikawae (Wellington) to go fishing at Kapiti Island on Monday last, and have not been seen since. It is feared that they are drowned. A boat has gono in search of them, The names of the missing men are not known, The annual balance-sheet of the Colonial Insurance Company, to be presented at the meeting on Wednesday next, sho<v ß the receipts to be £64,319 17s lid, and expenditure £64,985 6s lid, there being a loss of £615 8s 8d on the year's operrations. At a meeting at Auckland on Wednesday night, re the proposed maritime ex, hibition, it w»8 resolved to hold an exhibition in 1890, *nd a Committee was appointed to carry out the project. _ The Supreme Court sittings at Blenheim were abruptly terminated on Wednesday. The counsel on both -ides were taken ill. The remaining causs were adjourned to Wellington. At a meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday it was revived, in view of the financial position, that the Chamber be forthwith dissolved. The new suspension bridge across the Molyneux at Roxburgh (Ofcago), was opened for traffic on Tuesday. It m a fine structure, stretching acro-s the river in a single span of 270 ft, The total cost will be about £9OOO.