WELLINGTON.
(From our own Correspondent.)
[By Telegraph.]
"Wellington, September 24. The Government has brought down the following new clauses in the Abolition Bill: (1.) All real and personal property whatsoever which immediately before the coming into operation of this Act within any Provincial district is vested in or under the control of the Superintendent of any Province comprised within such Provincial district for general educational purposes, or as sites for schools, or for the endowment of education, or which shall be vested in any other person or body for such purposes, shall, on the coming into operation of this Act, be vested in the Board of Education constituted under any Act or Ordinance; or if there shall be more than one such Board in a Provincial district then in such Board or Boards as the Governor-in-Council shall direct or appoint. (2.) All the functions and duties which immediately before the date of the coming into operation of this Act were under or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance in force in any Province vested in the Superintendent of such Province either alone or acting with the advice of his Executive Council, shall, on the coming into operation of this Act be performed by the Chairman of the Board of Education in whom such property shall be vested as aforesaid. (3.) All lands hereby vested in Boards of Education shall, subject to any leases or contracts theretofore lawfully entered into relating to the same, be held in trust for the same purpose and with the same powers that the same were held by such Superintendent or by such person or body as aforesaid prior to the coming into operation of this Act.
Mr Bowen’s Evidence Amendmt nt Bill meets with general approval. Mr Curtis will move, in addition, that a judge, prior to summing up, may question a prisoner, who can, if he like, refuse to answer, but neither the prosecuting nor the defending corrnsel shall be at liberty to cross examine on the answers.
lu future the Fijian subsidised packet will not come down the coast.
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Evening Star, Issue 3927, 25 September 1875, Page 3
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347WELLINGTON. Evening Star, Issue 3927, 25 September 1875, Page 3
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