INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1498, 4 March 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

DuNEDijr Miroh 3.

Ernest Lear, a boy about ten years, appeared at the Police Court to- day j charged with housebreaking and stealing £5. The evidence shoned that accused and * younger boy, ton of the people from whom the money was taken, had gone Into' the hcuse and abstracted the money. They bad spent some, and then Lear had gone to the races, and when arrested he was standing by a gaming table, and had by this time only £2 on him. As the boy is too young to be sent to gaol, and haa evidently been tempted by the other lad, he was sentenced to six strokes of a birch rod.

At a meeting called by the Mayor to devise means for perpetuating the memory of the lale Mr James Maoandrew, about 100 attended, A resolution was passed deploring the loos sustained by tho colony m the sudden removal by death of Mc Maoandrew, and offering sympathy to the family. After disousaion, it was resolved that a scholarship, to be called tha Maoandrew scholarship, be established at the Otago University, and that a statue be also ereoted. It was deoided to have three columns m the subscription list} ooe for the statue, one for the scholarship, and the other unconditional.

At a meeting of the Otago Dook Trnrt, a resolution was passed expressing sorrow at Mr Maoandrew's death, and a letter of sympathy was ordered to be sent to the family. " ' -,