SOUTHEN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2314, 29 March 1876, Page 3

SOUTHEN TELEGRAMS.

(PBB PBESS AGENC?.)

Weliington, Tuesday. Messrs Wm. Gisbornei Win. Seed, and Jno, Knowles have been appointed a Commission to visit the, several provinces and to obtain information with a view to the consolidation of offices under the new system.. /They proceeded South in the 'Phoebe'this afternoon. ; ' Chhistchuech, Tuesday, During the last month the receipts on the Canterbury railways amounted to £18,090, as compared with £14,771 in February, 1875.—-The Canterbury men did not fire in the Jnterprovincial Pigeon Match. No notice was given them of the day fixed for the firiog.—The educational returns show that. 8,545 .males and 7,897 females are attending the Government schools in the province, the average daily attendance being: Males, 4,084; females, 3,360. The number. of children attending the Christian .schools is 4,219.The total number.: of teachers, employed in the province is 316, .

Dunedin, Tuesday, •The cost of the sanitary ..department for the Corporation during the last six .months has been '£2,232, including the erection of a fever hospital.—At an inquest on the body of Constable Yernoh, a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned, with a rider that it is desirable that legislation should be passed imposing s penalty, on persons trespassing on the railway, lines. vMarks were found in the tunnel .showing that Vernon had been feeling in the dark for the recesseß cut for the purpose of affording escape for any person working in or walking through the tunnel when the train is coming. His traces showed he had turned back twenty yards before the train struok him Had he lain down outside the rails he would have escaped.