DUNEDIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3519, 18 October 1882, Page 3

DUNEDIN.

October 18

There was a good deal of discussion at the Episcopalian Synod last eveniug on a motion by tbe Rev. Mr Byner, seconded by Archdeacon Edwards, affirming the desirability of a school for girls being established in connection with the Church of England. The mover stated that bis special reason for bring the motion forward wasin order that thepractice of sendging girls to Catholic convent schools, which was largely followed in Dunedin, might be obviated. It was stated that some twelve cases were known in which girls had been proselytised to Roman Catholicismjwhilstattending these schools. All the speakers concurred in the opinion that influence, direct or indirect, must be exercised towards proselytising in such schools, according to the well-known tenets of the Roman Catholic Church. The motion was carried, and a committee was appointed to take steps to carry it out. A motion was also carried affirming the desirability of abolishing the ten shilling fee for performing th 6 marriage ceremony. Tbe Waste Lands Board met yesterday to determine on a division of fortythree runs which are to be sold in February next. The great bulk of tbe runs were agreed to be re-leased —some for seven years, some for ten, some for fourteen, and some for twenty-one. The upset rental was fixed at from a penny up to as much as fivepence per acre. One run that is now leased by Messrs Cargill and Anderson at Roxburgh, containing 32,000 acres, was entirely retirely reserved for settlement, as was also a portion of one at the head of Lake Wakalipu. Messrs Smith and Gellibrand'a Mount Stokes run, containing

18,500 acres, it was decided not to release at present.