INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 1899, 30 November 1877, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

: [Press Agency.] Auckland, Nov. 29. Many representatives of tho Masonic Lodge from all parts of the North Island are coming to the installation of the District Grand Masters, Messrs Wliitaker and Graham to-morrow. ; At the meeting of the Auckland Steam Packet Company yesterday, offers wore received for the Southern Cross and Pretty Jane, but below their value. Aresolu-. tion was carried m favor of winding? up, the property to be sold to the best , advantage. The meeting very stormy, and with considerable personal recrimination. Mr Aitkin accused some pf the shareholders of being desirous to sacrifice the Company's plant with tho view of purchasing, and forming a new Company. Wellington, Nov! 29. It was reported about town to-day that his Excellency the Governor received by last English mail a despatch from the-. Secretary of State for the Colonies, conveying the official intimation that: henMajesty was pleased to confer on two exjudges — Justice Gresson and Justice Chapman— the title of " Honorable " for life, within the colony of New Zealand. '. Dunedin, Nov. 29. ; Mr Gillies intends to move at Wednesday's meeting of the Education Board that immediate action be taken with the . riew of securing a lady principal for the Girls' High School, and a, rector for the Boys' High School, and that it be referred to Professor Shand, the Secretary, and Mir Jasper to prepare a recommendation to be considered at the adjourned meeting. ' Considerable damage was done on I Tuesday night to the Mataura telegraph office by lightning ; the telegraph post within a few yards of the office was shatr tered to fragments, and three cells of the battery were burst m the case. ■ ; Aitcheson, who has been charged with incest, was dismissed- The child was over twelve years of age. Horrible revelations were made. The Magistrate m dismissing the prisoner designated him a polluted scoundrel.

Resident Magistbate's Coubt, Waimate.—On Tuesday last, before M.Studholme, Esq., J.P., the police charged a man with being drank and disorderly on the previous evening. The accused pleaded guilty, ana i£ being the fint offence charged against him; he was dismissed with a caution. Yesterday, before the same Justice of the Peace, an inebriate was charged with being drunk and disorderly. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was dismissed with a caution.