INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1883, 3 July 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(PBB PRBSS A8800IATION.) Auckland, July 2. ; Two houses m Brown street were burned down at two o'olook thia morning Migulre was insured for £200, and 1 Tomkln foe £150, both io the South ' Brltiab. The inquest on the remains of Mrs Oroft who bad vied the Canadian dootors modlolne resulted m a verdiot of . death from natural oaU3ea. The barque Oonlayee whioh left here on the llth olt for Lisbon haa put baok io a leaky condition, On her rccsnt visit tbe Oonlayee was en route from Tonga to Marseilles with cargo and having been found In a dangeroua condition, she put In hero for repairs. The vessel was partly unloaded and plaoed io the dook, but vory little m the w»y of repairing waa done to hor, and when about 1100 miles of her journey to Lisbon had been traversed, Bhe had again to put baok. A largely-attended pnblio meeting was held to-night at the Oity Hall, the Mayor presiding, to consider the motion proposed at a previous meeting m the Lome street Hall by Mr Q. M. Reed, namely— " That m consideration of the finano al position of the oolony, end the necessity for further retrenchment, the sohool age be ralaed to seven years, aod free education atop at the fourth standard." To-night Mr Reed divided the motion Into two parts, and submitted the first, that portion referring to the aoh col age. Mr Theo. Oooper moved an amendment— -" That no Interference be made with the present State system of eduoatlon, either by way of raising the sohool age or lessening the sohool age ; but that, m the opinion of the meeting, a large sum of money oan, and should, be saved by a iqore economical administration of educational matters. '' Aftir an anlma^d dlaoueslon, lasting for three hours, li_fr Cooper's amendment was oarried by $ Urge majority. WEfcJjINGTON, July 3. The Oity Council met to*day to consider a resolution, passed at a publio meeting of ratepayers on Friday night as follows : —"That In the opinion of this meeting, the provisions of the Wellington Oorporation Drainage and Finanolal BUI now under consideration by the House of Representatives are calculated to Inflict great finanolal lobb upon the city, and the Oity Council are hereby requosted co withdraw it from Parllameut." After dieousslon m Committee lt was deoided to withdraw the Bill and it was further reoommended " That m the opinion of the Committee the resolution passed at the meeting Is tantamount to a vet) of] Wantof Confidence m the Oounoil and that (t is the duty of members to resign." This resolution was a|so adopted. The Oounoil deoided to hold a formal meeting on Thursday for the purpose' of plaoiDg the matter formally before the'Olty Oonncil.' The whole returns of 'the Customs revenue have been ascertained witn the exception Qf that from Tauranga. The amount known tp have Ijeen collected is £78,64$ whioh, added to the amount collected ln the two previous months, makes a total of £324,000 collected for tho first quarter of the present finanolal year. Tbp estimate for the three months was £313,600, <"> that the receipts exceed the estimate by £11,600. The amount of beer dnty oolleoted throughout the oolony last month was £4126, whioh, added to tbe amount oolleoted ln April and May, makea a total of £12,342 for tho quarter. The estimate was £12,750. Tho lowest tender for rebnilding the Opera Hous* lb £6655. F. Rogan aud 00., of the Zealand!* Poultry Farm, Karorl, are sending down to-day forty plotted specimens from their stook for che Christohuroh and Sydenham Shows. WESTrORT, July 2. i W. Robertson, who haa : come here from New' South Wales to examine the JNgaka-. wau coat aeaius on behalf of a syndicate who intend to' parohil-e, has completed hla | examination, and Ib understood to be - favorably imgrsßßfld vith the property. The auooesa of theqe negotiations tnuans a ] Rroat expansion of the looal ooal trade, i dHaiSrouuKCH, : 7al v 2. I 1 It has beet) ascertained that tha fires at 1 Woolston aud Phflllpstown police stations ■ on Thursday last were lighted by a lunatio named Wmi Allison, who was this afternoon committed to the Asylum. , Blupj?, July 2. | Isaac Hoberfield found the body of j a man on Mokotqolrq beach to-day. It , is supposed tp be that of Arthur Sgott or Luboon, both mlsalug from the schooner Awarua since April 2, The body will be * sent to luveroarglll for Inquest and Iden- i itificatlou,