BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3915, 10 September 1875, Page 3

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Timauu. September'.'. The School Commit too hero have resolved to send a d putation to Christchurch to interview the Minister of Education, becmse they cannot get their letters answered, or any attention paid to their affairs by the Provincial Government. Last week, driven to desperation, they decided on .'hutting up the school, and the 000 pupils a holiday until they could ;:e' the Government to move. The school, which is one of the largest and in the Colony, has been without a head master for eight month'. ami is just being mined through neglect and delay on the part of the Chiistchureh authorities.

Major Atkinson's proposal to eon:stiluie :i Provincial Board of Education causes groat dissatisfaction here.

IsVEKCAiItiU.!., September 10. M'Glashan was brought up &t the Migistrate's Court to-day, when the evidence taken before the Coroner was nad over, and additional evidonce was tendered by the p<i]ic.\ Sergeant Purdue deposed that, on conveying the prisoner after the inquiry to gaol, ho said : '■ One thiiiff, I can sle p easy ; I did not set fire to it intentionally. I saw to-day that my statement to you boys, trving to deny it. -.vas tin worst tiling agiiu.-t ine. I knew if I was committed by it I would get off by the jury I wouldn't care so much about it only for the look of the thing." The Magistrate said that on the additional evidence he felt it hi.-; duty to commit prisoner for trial. Prisoner, who had nothing to say, was accordin ;ly committed. Bail was accepted, prisoner in LIOO, and two sureties in LIOO each.