INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 235, 18 October 1878, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Agency.)

Wellington, Oct. 17. In the House of Representatives today, Barff asked without notice, whether there was any foundation for a report that another murder had been com- * mitted by the Natives at Waimate Plains. ■Sheehan said that some of the Ngarawharau tribe went to Pariaoa in search of the murderer Hiroki, but were assaulted by the Native police and their horses taken. No lives were lost; he would visit the district after the Session, and take steps to vindicate the law. Te / Whiti had not participated in the "3 The debate on the second reading of $rfche Education Bill was resumed. Dr supported the Bill as unsectarian, and not making undue concessions to ' Roman Catholics ; it only asked per- £ mission for all denominations to become ■- auxiliaries to the State in the matter of C education ; he contended that the present 'system tended to destroy individual and parental effort. Mr Joyce said the Bill proposed an unsectarian system, while _jthe State system destroyed emulation /and fossilized teachers. The House divided on the qnestion that the Bill be read. Ayes, 32 ; Noes, 38. Barff said the division showed that Government must amend the existing Education System, or they could not continue in their seats. Market quotations— Adelaide flour, £17 ; colonial, £11 to £11 10s ; oats, 4s 9d ; hams, 9d ; bacon ; cheese, ; butter, Is; potatoes, £4 10s, good demand.