INTER PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2006, 6 December 1888, Page 3

INTER PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PER TKI'hH ASSOCIATION. ) WmuKQToif, Deoember 5 A man named Happy has been nrreeted nt Msßterttn, c 1 a*gtd with committing an unnatural offi nee. A*, the ce'^mony of the preaeoWon of pritee at St Patrick's O'.>l'ege, Hlb Exoellency the Governor a»id m tskirg an affectionate farewell, be moat iay that he thought the colony w»a to be heartily; congratulated on the sppnlntment an his inoeeiibr of 0n.9 who b*d been eminent m tba public service of Eoglnnd. Lord Onalow, he could venture to pay, would take the same le»erf Bt m the educational Interests of the colony aa he (the speaker) had done, (or co man with his heart m the right place coold vis* wltb jealcmy the establishment of rchoola or colleges on a platform different from that which he himself occupied. The Diocesan Board nominators have nominated the Rev W. 0. Watters, curate of LoughtoD, Kmtez, to the vao»m incumbency of St Pater's. Tbo ateamer Bacepbalns left for Calcutta this evening with 300 bors-e, of wh'.oh number 230 are from tho South, the remainder being shipped here. At a meeting of soft goods and boot Importers, held m tha office of Sargood, Son and Ewen, Wellington, the undermentioned firms being represented : • Blng, Harris and Oo ; McK»y ; Logan ; Steen and 00. ; Whitten Nicholson and Oo, ; Kiroaldie and Stains ; Wilson and Blebardson ; Jarner; Smith; Sargood, Son-and Ewtn-; the following resolution was carried unanimously :— " That this maetlng strongly proteas agaiost the appointment of Mr Shannon rb a soft expert, ho not having tha confidence of the trade." T^Z