INTERPROVINCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13828, 13 February 1909, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 12. The Hon. R. McKenzie, Minister for Public Works, arrived to-night, and sets out to-morrow on a ten days' tour of the north.. Ho will open the Wellsford section of the North Auckland. Main Trunk railway on Monday. WELLINGTON, Feb. 12. Judgment was given to-day in the compensation case of Baylis3 and others v. the City Council, a claim for £15,947, arising out of the resumption of land at Island Hay for the purposes of making a recreation ground. The Court awarded claimants £292». CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 12. The Addington school, the main building of which was destroyed by fire a week ago, re-opened this morning with a large attendance of pupils, ine majority of the pupils were accommodated in four large marquees, which had been converted into schoolrooms for the occasion. The novelty of thensituation seemed to appeal to the youthful tent' dwellers, perhaps more than it did to the teachers. A hall in Crescent road is also to be pressed into the service of the school. At the Congregational Union, a motion was agreed to, "rejoicing m the continued progress by the no-license movement, and devoutly thanking God for the moral and humanitarian earnestness thus indicated, and praying that the campaign against the alconolcurse may be entirely successful. A committee was set up to aid in the maintenance and development of the work in Sunday schools. At a meeting of the Deans Memorial Committee to-night, it was agreed that the memorial take the form- of a tablet to be placed in the school, and a fund to be raised, the interest from which shall be applied as a Robert Deans Memorial Scholarship, to be awarded somewhat on the lines of the Rhodes Scholarship ,and not by examination, such scholarship to be open to boys from any district high school or secondary school in Canterbury, provided that the bolder must attend the Christchurch Boys' High School tlnwighout the term of the scholarship.

CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 12. To date the subscriptions received towards the erection of a children's ward nt the Ohristchnrch Hospital total f:3200. There are still a number of returns to come in.