INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1695, 7 February 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

A young man named David Logue was drowned near Sortrose, Southland, on Saturday while attempting to oroifl the riv<>r. By the'Frisco mail the news of the advance in prioe of leaf tobaceo it confirmed, and the agents for the Jano Brand have beer imtruoted to make an immediate increase of Jd per lb. A further riie ii considered probable. At the Wellington B.M. Court yesterday morning Beuben Hind and John Collins were charged with breaking and entering Staples boot factory adjacent to the premises in Harbor street deitroyed by fire on Saturday morning;. Both prisoners where remanded for a week. The members of Government, accompanied by Major-General Bohaw, held an inspection of the forts at Wellington yesterday. It ii understood that the Government intend to put the defences in a state of efficiency at once in order to get rid of the heavy expenditure in the wayof supervision. What is to all appearance a bathing fatality occurred in the upper harbor, Dunedin, on Saturday. Henry Bait, 20 years of age, olerk in the South British Insurance Offioe, hired a boat at the jetty late in the afternoon and rowed off alone. He first changed the olothes he was wearing, together with his watoh and chain, putting on another suit, he took with him in the boat a towel, a small Gladstone bag and a paper parcel* Early on Sunday morning the boat was fonnd by a settler named Ohallioe on the other side of the harbor. The boat had not been upset, and in it were the olothes, a towel unused, and the Gladstone bag, but no parcel. The boat was brought b*ok, but utrange to say the police were not communicated with until Tuesday evening. A coal miner named Jas. Russell was killed at flontly (Auckland) on Friday. Ha was at work in the Taupiri Company s mine when about two tons of coal fell, crushing him. The Southland Education Board have adopted a schema of retrenchment to meet the shrinkage on the Government grant of £1920 p» annum. By the enforcement of the strict average, £«kJB will be eaved ; by the abolition of bonuses, £403 ; by reducing rent allowance of teachers, £lO5. The salaries of teachers will bo reduced pro rata from 3 to 10 per cent., the latter on salaries ov«r £3OO. Uncertificated teachers will be reduced on the higher scale, and female head teachers will get £lO less than males. In some cases pupil teachers will also be reduced. The total saving on salaries is £960. Committees will get 10 per cent. less. The Board's staffs are not yet dealt with. The total reductions amount to £1609.