INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 49, 5 October 1886, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS

(TEE UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland. October 2. The subject of the charges against Mr Gurr, teacher at the Onohunga school, has again been before the Education Board. Gurr wrote to the board giving an emphatic denial to the charges made against him, and intimating bis intention of taking the matter into tbe Supreme Court. ' October 4. It has transpired that after last Saturday's review that a fracas took place between a non-commisßianed officer and a civilian at an hotel, over the sword exercise, which ended in the .sergeant falling and breaking his leg in two places. The unemployed engaged on the forest plantation works at Rangiriri Are doing well, and have already planted 900 trees. This Day. Reports are still current that an alligator has been seen in the Waikato river, and it is said that last year two tourists taw the head of what they took to be an alligator. The story generally is disbelieved. Wellington, October 2. At a- meeting of the Wellington Edu» cational Institute it was decided to send the following matters down to Christchurch for discussion by the conference in January next : — 1. Establishment of a teacher's pension fund : 2. Revision of the standards, with a view to the i reduction ef subjects. 4. The advisa- : bility of clearly defining tbe powers of ' boards and committees, especially in the matter of tbe appointment of teachers. . 4. The issue of a series of text books m wbioh colonial matters should be promi- . neat. 2. The opening of greater facilities , to teachers for obtaining a university degree. Messrs Purdie and Vie Morran were elected delegates to tiie conference. October 4. \ William Peate was charged at the Magistrate's Court with fraudulently 1 converting to his own use a promissory . note. For the defence it was shown that the note was unstamped, and therei fore not valuable security, and as a mat- , ter of law the accused was not a bailee, aud further that there was ao evidence of conversion. The Magistrate in dismissing tho case remarked that the evidence did not leave a shadow of disgrace on the character of the accused. The Supreme Court opened this morning. There were 17 cases. True bills were found against Te Whiti, Titoko* waru. and the other Maoris on 2 counts of malicious injury to property and forcible entry, and also against Hodgson on two charges of emmbezzlement, and William Templeton alias Woods for burglary. The latter was convicted of stealing samples from a commercial traveller at the Empire Hotel and sentenced to two years hard labour. Benjamin Hob bins, for larceny from a peraoa, was acquitted. This Day. The Government have offered Mr Crawford LlO per aore for land taken for defence purposes at Fort Ballance and Point Halliswell. The heaviest rain for months fell this morning. Nn damage is reported, The last bricks in the tunnels on tbe j Wellington- VI ana watu Railway were placed yesterday. The line will be open through to Longburn early in November. The Government have received an offer from a Duaedin firm to manufacture iron raih. Tbey have secured a patent which will enable them to use any sort of old iron fer the purpose. In the Supreme Court the charge of jewel robbery from Freeman* is going on, and will probably last most of the day. James Mitchell, alias McKenzio, for jewellery robbery received five years. The Maoris' oases are for to morrow. Dunedin, I his Day. Three young men reported to the police that while at the Ocean Beach last nighi they saw the figure of a man or a worn m dive into the waves. They ran to the spot but could discover nothing. Russell This Day. Captain Cromarty, ef the Arnwata, which arrived from Fiji this morning, report* a volconic eruption at the Islands of Mirafau. Two thirds of the island* have dissappenred. The volcano is still active. There has been no loss of life. The island is covered with dust. Nelson, This Day. Town School Committee last night ' agreed by a majority of four to three to grant the use of the sohool rooms for religious instructions by Minister of religion between nine and 9.30. It was, however, agreed the whole committee should rosign in order to give the householders an opportunity of expressing an opinion