INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1839, 12 May 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

. t , Axtokland, May 11. Advlceß have been reoelved stating that Dp Sohlelezjr, the exp&rt engaged by Mr Newbary, to reprasent the JSewburyVautin Company m this oolony, has left England for New Zealand, bat before coming here he will -visit Sandhurst to inspect the gold extracting applianoea there. I>> is believed the machinery for the Thames pUn* will reach here In the oourse pf six weeks ( r two monthn. Ttie plant will ba equal to the treatment of 200 tona per week, and the oost of the treatment will be about 12a 6d per ton. The prooeas saves from 96 to 97 percent on assay valoa, and as much of the talllngejon the Thames foreshore are worth considerably over 7dwt per too, the venture ahoald prove very remunerative, In further pursuance of the scheme of retrenchment the, Board of Education have adopted the folio wing regulations m reference to pupil teachers : — " That pupil teachers who have completed their term of three years' service and have tolly passed the examination for certificate m olasa E or D be raised to the rank of assistant teaohets, with salary as follows :— If classified full D, £60 a year ; If classified full E, £50 a year. (2) That from and after July Ist, 1888, the salaries of the pupil teachers Who had completed the term of^hroe years' service prior to the 31st-Oatober; 1887, the data of entry for the last teaohera 1 examination, and who, being then not less than nineteen years of age, have fully passed the examination for a certificate, ba regulated as follows *. If classified partial D, £50 ; if classified partial E, £50, if not classified for E, third year rank, £40; second year, £30 (3) That the foregoing regulation shall be applied acoordlng to the resnlts of the .teachers' annual examination to those pro* butloners who were raised to the rank of assistant teachers by fprevlons resolution of the board dated 27th April, 1888." iNVaROARaiLL, May 11, Government have offered £600 to the Southland Ouunty Council for expenditure on works by the unemployed, tba wages to be 4s Gd for married men and 3s 6d for single moo, and the work to be not less than twenty miles from Invetcarglll