INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3519, 8 January 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(By Telegraph.) Auckljvkd, Jan. 7. By the Manapouri for the South to-day visitors to tho eummer race meeting were conveyed home. Among the Lorsas shipped were Nelson, Stoneyhurst, Tasrnan, Macaroni, Revolver, and several yearlings purchased at the N.Z. Stud Company's sale, including • Musket— Onyx colt. The Waikato mystery is not yet cleared up. The police can find no traceß of Jimmy Dunbar, aud it is almost certain he is tho murdered man. The captured carpet snatehas been handed over to Professor Thomas, who chloroformed it. It will be preserved bs a specimen in the museum of the Auckland University. Napiee, Jan. 7. The Waipawa Court sat till midnight yesterday. Agnes Bloran, domestic servant at an hotel at Takapau, was committed for trial for the manslaughter of her illegitimate child. Wruiington, Jan. 7. The Secretary of Education has issued a printed circular t > School Committees and teachers drawing attention to the facilities supplied by the Postal Department for the investment of email savings by school children. Regulations for a special settlement to be formed by members of the police and the Armed Constabulary force, are gazetted. The Hons. G. M. Waterhouse and W. B. Mantell, also W F. L. Travers, are gazetted as Governors of the New Zealand Institute. James Young, M.D., is gazetted medical superintendent of the Auckland Lunatio Asylum. A. young man named Frederick Symons, manager of Gilmer's Family Hotel, which is situated opposite the scene of tho late fire, was arrested this afternoon charged with having certain tobacconists' wares in his possession which it is alleged he had stolen during the time the fire was raging. The man Howard who was arrested on a charge of attempting to defraud the Government Insurance Association was in the habit of wearing a glove with guttapercha in the inside of the thumb to conceal the fact that part of his thumb was missing. ; Advices have been received from London that the Board of Directors of the National Bank of New Zealand, Limited, have declared an interim dividend for the half year ended 30th September last at the rate of 5 per cent per annum. A prisoner named Daniel Irvine, changed with assaulting a warder, has been sentenced to thirty days in irons. Cheibtchttkoh, Jan. 7. The two Godfreys and Mrs Howard were bro"ght up at the R.M. Court to-day and remanded till Monday, January 26th. Howard arrived this morning, but was not brought U PA private enquiry into the cause of the late fire on board the ship Soukar was held at Lyttelton to-day before tho Collector of Customs. 'Ihe evidence will be forwarded to Wellington in the ordinary course. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) held its "fourth wool sale of the season yesterday, when 1000 bales were sold out of 1330 offered. There wm a keen demand for all descriptions, but more especially for good conditioned crossbreds. Greasy half-bred realised up to BJd, crdssbreds 7id, merino 71d, Down wool 7|d, and longwool 6Jd ; scoured half-bred made 13id, and merino 13Jd. At the inquest held to-day on Henry Smith Legge, a clerk in the Deeds Registry office, who died suddenly, it transpired that deceased's life was insured in the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria for £321, upon which the first premium had been paid on December 22nd last. Several bottles that had contained chloral were found in deceased's room, and three similar bottles in his pocket. Ihe Coroner, in view of these facts, ordered a post mortem examination to he made, and adjourned the inquest till Saturday. Dunbdik, Jan. 7. Intelligence has been received from the heud office, London, that (he Directors of the National Bank have declared an interim dividend of 5 per cent per annum for the half year ended the 30th eptember. Ninety-five men left by the s.s. Waihora to-day to take the places of the wharf luborere out on striko in Melbourne. At the afternoon sitting of the Educational Institute, the following resolutions were carried:— "That with a view to the promotion and encouragement of sound, instruction in scientific subjects, it is desirable that an annual examination in such subjects should bo instituted, and that prizes or certificates or both should be awarded upon the results of such examination ;" " That the .Education Depar tment be requested under reasonable restrict ions to supply to School Committees or teachers philosophical and scientific apparatus ut reduced prices;" "That Education Boards should appoint ecionco teachers in ordor to oarrj out the requirements of the syllabus with respect to science ;" " That an examining syndicate should bo appointed to conduct the inspection and examination of socondary schools throughout the colony." A motion suggesting amendments in standard examination and percentages was also carried. A Committee was appointed to draw up a report on the training of teachers. The question of a pension fund was relegated back to the District Institutes. The action of the North Canterbury Institute I in bringing circumstances in connection with the Lower Hcatlicpte pupil teacher assault

case was approved. It was stated that a constable entered the school, and arrested the pupil teacher without a warrant, and in spite of protest* and a promise to go quietly, the lad was handcuffed and led through a public thoroughfare.