INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6061, 21 September 1894, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

———_jp (Bt AUCKLAND, SBifTBtfBBB SO, Alexander Watson* employed by the WaU ksto Land Association, fell off a wagon, fris horse having bolted. The wheels passed over him causing injuries from which he died. NAPIBB, Sbptbubeb 20. Jobn Bestall was brought up at court this morning on remand, charged with attempting to murder ten employees on Patoks station by administering poison. The evidence of T O Sanderson, manager of the station, was partially taken when the farther hearing was adjourned till Monday as Mr Skey, Government analyst, omitted to bring certain bottles necessary m the case, with him from Wellington. A twelve-roomed boarding house m Linooln Boad occupied by Mrs Fernandez, was totally destroyed by firo* TJje insurance is £500 on the building m the Meoeheitor office end £260 on the furniturt m the South Brjt^h, WANQANUI, Bhj?tbm»bb 21. A robbery took place at the Butland Hotel during the early hours of this morning One of the boarderi, named Fothergill, a com. meroial traveller, losing £40, and Adams, of Patea, two gnineas Brideon, another boarder, was aroused by the thief, but thinking it was a porter calling him he did not give an alarm. DUNEDIN, Sbptsmbbb 20. At the Education Board's meeting to-day there was a strong diioussion over tbe notion of a country committee m refusing ta accept at teacher a girl beoauie she happened to baa Catholic. The Board by 4to 2 agreed tc urge the committee to reconsider its decisioi and give the girl a favourable reception. At the city and iubor!>an %bool Com' mittees conference resolutions wer*> eajr<rfss jc favour of continuing the Training College, the closing of which was viewed with alarm. The proposal to appoint,an advisory board tc assist m selaofciog teachers was condemned. The Knights of Labour passed a reaolutior to-night protesting against tbe borrowing polioy of tbe Government, on tbe grounds ol involving the payment of a large amourjl ai interest coming from the pookets oi the producers of the colony, and whict would go to enrioh the foreign capital o ists, and ea the Government protested to be and were «l«oted as a non-borrow ing Government; also disapproving of th< o Advance to Settlers BUI inairauob as i State Bank Bill, similar to the one propotefl m New South Wales, would meet the raone '- tary requiremflutfl of the country witbou 1 c imperiling tjje jiaUpnal ?«#,