INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1905, 30 July 1888, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

<PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, July 29. At a public meeting held laßt night m the Lome street Hall to consider the village settlement scheme the following resolution waß passed— "That the members m Parliament for the Auckland district be requested to arrange that yhen the House is being moved into Committee of Supply the following resolution be moved— 'That a respectful address ba presented to his Excellency the Governor prayiDg that he may be pleased to direct by message the placing npon the supplementary estimates the sum of £10,000 for the purpose of continuing and extending village settlements ia the provincial district of Auckland " Wellington, July 29. Detective Oampbell, with a number of police, made a ra : d on a Chinese den, situated m Taranaki street, last night, and arrested nineteen Chinamen, who were engaged playing fantan. Very little money was taken The ship Fioione nas been launohed on Waikanao beaob, and lies at anchor under Kapiti Island.

A deputation representing the headmasters of the city schools waited on the Minister of Education yesterday for the purpose of bringing under bis notice certain artlolea recently published m • looal paper alleging that Immorality existed In the State Bohoolu. The Hon George Fisher stated that he did not wonder that a deep and wideipread feeling of Indignation had been excited when a newspaper etatejd, without any qualification whatever, that the public schools of tbe colony had beoome moral pitfalls* Naturally that would create a great feeling of unsettlement m the minds ,of parents as to what tbe moral condition of their children was to be m tbe future. He thought tbe Education Board had taken op a proper position. He would give suoh an expression cf his views as he hoped would Indnoe the Bosrd to take further aollou, hnd if the Board would pasa a resolution asking him to appoint a Commission or appoint persons oooupyIng some judicial capacity to institute an ■ enquiry, he was Inclined to think the Government would be willing to accede ■• to the request.