INTEPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1626, 3 August 1887, Page 3

INTEPROVINCIAL NEWS

■+ — - . Auckland, Angast 2. At a upeolal meeting to-day the Grammar School Governors decided to appoint a teacher of science for the free night school .reoently established by tbe Board of Education. A meeting was held to night by J. Altkan Oounell for tbe purpose of forming a Ycung Oolonkl Democratic Association, when addresses were delivered by Sir George Grej and Mr Oonnell. The attendance was amall. Napier, August 2. The Supreme Court opened to-day, there being five cases. The most importaut were a charge of perjary and one of stealing two casks of rum from the wreck of the Northumberland, . . . Wellington, August 2. This afternoon his Excellency the G wernor oommuted the sentence of death pasted on the Gisborne prisoners to that of penal servitude for life. The Minister of Publio Works returns to Wellington at the end of the week. Mr Brown, one of the contractors on the Midland Railway, has received the following telegram from Mr R Gardner, Greymonth : — ''Please state on my authority that not one single piece of now harness haß been Imported. Messrs McKione and sont oat a few seats of old harness which were left over from a contract they had just finished m Ireland, and nothing more." Greymouth, August 2. The Harbor Board's solicitor has given it bb his opinion that tho Board could not legally pay workmen for one day'a Jubilee holiday. Dunbdin, Auguet 2. In a ohesß match between the Otago and Timaru Chess Cluba each side won three games. Those unfinished were referred to Mr Hay, who has declared two drawn, and the other a win for Tiraaru, who thus won the matoh by feur games to three. In the Supreme Court to day the case of W. MoLeod v the National Bank was heard. It was alleged that the Bank, as mortgagees of 450 shares m MoLeod Bros., Bold them at under value to, among others, their own officers. The jury found tbat the shares were not sold under value. Ting Lee was fined £3, or six months' : imprisonment, for receiving seventyniuo oigars from the steamer Wooeung without paying the duty. The Collector of i Ouitoms stated that the Chinese were In ' the constant habit of smuggling from the , Chinese vessels coming here.