INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1898, 21 July 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(per press association.) Auckland, July 20. At the meeting of tbe Board of Education to-day, Mr Thos Cooper moved a resolution providing that the staff and salaries of teaobers of the publio schools of the oolony be based npon a uniform sca'e, .and that no child who has passed the _fx*h standard be allowed to attend public schools. He also submitted a scale for the reduction of salaries and amended regulation of staff, by which head teacher's ' ■■Urlea wou'd range from £360 to £600 per annum, mi those of first assistant from £200 to £100, according to the number of children in the schrols ; second and third assistant being paid £74 to £60 per year respectively. Mr Cooper claimtd thst by this means and by amended regulations of the staff of teachers a saving of £75,000 per year could be eff-oted. The motion was dlsousaed at ~ groat length, and eventually its further "consideration was postponed for two months. Wellington, July 20. The French convicts were again taken before the aoting Governor to-day. Cury's . oase was taken first. Mr Gaily appaared ' for the Crown, and said It was not even necessary for him to . make out a prima ' facie case, not such ft case as would b_ * required by onr own Supreme Court, bnt he admitted that It devolved upon him to produce evidence that the prisoner wai the person who had escaped from New Caledonia. Hla Excellency said there wbb no doubt the prisoner was the man referred to In the document forwarded from New Caledonia. He would therefore -" order that he should be returned to the French Cou.nl. One could not help sympathising with the man, seeing that he had gon? through so much misery, but the people of New Zisland did not want the oolony to beoome a reoeptaole for New Caledonian convicts. His Excellency directed the Interpreter to inform him that be would be surrendered to the French Consul at the end of 15 days, but Inthe meantime he could apply .to tbe Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. Ga*parinb'd case wllljbe taken;to-morrow. Tae Magistrate dismissed the charges agalnat the Agnews for annoying members of Parliament.

Mr Henry Anderson, a well-known journalist, died this morning at 1.15, from cancer in the throat,

A deputation, consisting of Messrs Joyce, Wii hy, Buxton and Goldle M.H.R.'a together with Mr T. W. Glover lecturer to ihe New Zealand Temperance Alliance, Interviewed the Premier this afternoon. Mr Glover, who aoted as spokesman, explained that a mass -meeting of the eomblred Temperance Societies had been held in the looal Salvation Army Barraoks on the previous evening, when a resolution was oarrled appoint ing the deputation to wait upon tbe Premier at hiß earliest convenience, to urge upon bim the necessity of fixing a day fcr the discussion of Mr Fulton's resolution on local option with regard to the liquor traffic. Sir Harry Atkinson replied that be should be pleased to assist the deputation in their endeavor to get Mr Falton'a resolution discussed, and he would consult his Cabinet .. to whether a day could be Bet apart, and would then confer with the friends of the temperance oause who had peats In the House. CiOBISTcnjTjRCH, July 20. An inquest was held at Walau yesterday, on |ha body found on the Leslie Pass, Identified as Charles Bolt, shepherd at St . James' sUtion. He had been drlnklpg at Walau for a fortnight, and left there for Hanmer Flams in company with two men laat Sunday, taking a bottle of whisky which he broached a mile this side of Leslie Pass. He would then go no farther, and his companions went on. Arthur Bryant, boundary keeper for Mr Duncan Rutherford found his saddle at | Leslie Pass, and on' searohlng found tbe body in a rockbound creek in the Pass quite dead. The horse was found at Hanmer river on the other side of the range. Dr Bolger gave it as hie opinion that death resulted not from falling into !pe creek, but from exposure whilst sufferpg from drink. The" ver^iot was '? died rom exposure while wandering about in depressed state of mind through excessive drinking."

The Executive Committee of the International Temperance Conference to meet in Victoria, have requested Mr 0. Gray of Christohuroh to become one of the Vioe Presidents. Timabu, July 20. A man named Robert Russell was found des-t id'lhe snow on the Grampian Plain, ffaokeozle Country, to day. He bad been missing since tbe 13th inst. '■■ , , poNBDiw, July 20 Some time ago E. ! Laadorf, fruiterer, was arrested at the Bluff on a charge of obtaining goods by false pretences, wrought up in Dunedln the charge was withdrawn. At a meeting of creditors'toflay his deficiency was shown to be £256. The creditors not only recommended bis discharge, but one of thera collected Bubaorlptlons lu aid of tfre bankrupt'from the P^eri. _________________