INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1640, 19 August 1887, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Manaia, August 18. Tho mail coach from Opunake mat with ao. ftfcideafc to-day, wlureby a lady .passenger hid her arm and ankle broken, and the drirer sustained rather seriouß injury The horsas, whioh were standing at tha Oeo hotel, started oflf and oapr.zjd the coach. Ousfdin, Aoguat 18. At a meeting of the Education Board to-day, it was resolved to represent to the G'Vernmont that the Board's funds for eohool buildings were exhausted, and as more were urgently npeded, they requested Government to grant them authority to lnour moderate expenditure on buildings, The Secretary o! tha Education Dapartment only acknowledged receipt of the report oo the syllabus, and a resolution was carried expressing regret that the head of the Department shon'd attaoh so little attention to the opinion of the Board that had sent them the digested opinion of the most valuable educational experts la the colony. One of the prisoners In the gaol laid a charge against a warder of striking him on tho minth. but as (t was entirely unsupported it was diemleßofl, and the prisoner was sentenced to seven days. Writ i have beec liaued against pist and present members of tho Lako County Council for the recovery of about £1200 illegally paid county funds, as shown by a ■pedal audit by Mr Batkin. Two of the members who were m office at the time have since died.