INTERPROVINCIAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11133, 20 February 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

■ -» . (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, February 19. .1 he Mongonui School Committee have substituted swimming for drill in summer. •" WELLINGTON. February 18. At the Waste Lands Board to>day, Mr H. Bunny stated chat the imp essiou was abroad in Wairarapa that Mr Clemie, surveyor, who was engaged on the ranges at the back of Feathorston, had been commissioned to survey the branch railway Jine from Kaitoke, which would do away with the necessity » o * crossing the Bimutaka Summit, j*» March ant, Crown Lands Oomtnia^oner replied that Mr Clemie had received no order to survey any lim» for the branch, railway ; but he had been instructed f o explore the country, and if, during f h "« course ot bis ordinary survey, he u JS ™™! ,i m ' g ?' *"■• reqairad fot that IZTJ'T if' 0 ' in °^ OT *at the n a- i n«- February 19. OardmaJ. Moran arrived bore at 10.25 ! this morning. A launch went out to meet the Rotomahana, with the Hon. T 1 i cy aud a rece Ption committee on board. A large number of clergy awaited on the wharf, and a fair collei turn of the public. Some dme waa spent in allowing those who visited to pay their devoirs to his Eminence before he landed, and a procession was then tormed of hacka and . carriages, with two banJs, to St. Patrick's College, where the students deceived Cardinal A* o^, and an address was presented. The college will be formally opened on Sunday with High Pontifical Mass. OH&ISTOHUSCH. / February 18. .This afternoon Cardinal Moran laid tue foundation stone of the Magdalene Asylum, at Magdala, Lincoln Eoad, towards the cost of which the Maxwell bequest of £2000 is to be applied. The Cardinal, accompanied by a large number of ecclesiastic?! and others, drove out in a namber of carriages to the Bite of the asylum. On arrival tli-> party was received by 80 school children drawn up in two lines. The stone having been laid, Cardinal Moran de^ liveied an address, stating that they were met that day to lay th* foundation stove of an asylum for the mosfc forlorn of their fellow creatures, and a work which would commend itself to everyone, she virtue of charity was the crown of all other virtues, and the works of their Divine Master had t ..Id them that it was a pearl ab^ve price, i A collection was made, realising a large '. sum, including four contributions of ' 100 guineas each, and two of The j Cardinal and party J eft for Wellington ( this evening by the ftotoaiahana. (

Mr F, Back, geueral manager of tha Canterbu-y railways, wan to-night presented wi'h a i address and a purae of sovereigns from the railway employes on the occasion of his departn c for Tasmania.

At an inqueet at Kaiapoi on a boy named Koir, who .va3 drowned yesterday^ the jury returned a verdict of a^uideatal death, and added a rider jTCoaim judiug lank the! boy Jim Forrest iiio deceased's compauiun, who b,ad made a gallant attempt to rosoua him, bo jcoognised by the Eoyul Humane iSoci-ity.

Fob' nary 19. Tho hands© uc n™ <-.ffi jes, which have bean erecied in v i Square for the Australian iV!utu;.u >'roviftent Society, were oponodto day,»nd the ocouaion was celebrated by a luncheon, at which Sir W. Fitzhorbu't presided. In tho course o f his ,'ipceoli ho referred to the saliafae-

tory progress of the society since it was first established in New Zealand in 1871. tfe condemned the Government Life Insurance for guaranteeing absolute security to policyboldfre, because it meant the possibility of increased taxa* tion to the oommunity. At the quarterly meeting of the Can* terbury Chambor of Commerce to-day, the chairman reviewed the possibilities of the prices likely to b« obtainable for th 9 colony's wheat crop, and concluded that their chances of s ■■curing better pricps w°re doubtful. He considered, however, that reli ible 'Kugliah ti^a aro u?mui'nou.-j in their o-iinion that tv the near future there will bo a splendid market in Europe for all the moat New Zealand would be able to produce for many years to dime.