INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 108, 3 November 1893, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PEH PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, November 2. Last quarter's returns show that at the end of September there were 12,270 children on the rolls of 94 schools in the Welliugton Educational District. The working average attendance was 9090 and the strict average 8416. 'I he Board maintains a staff of 307 teacher?, including six teachers of sewing. The tender of Messrs Cameron and Mulreeat £1934 has been accepted by the Lands Department for metalling the first section of East Coast Road from Stratford towards the interior on the route along which it is proposed to open up road communication between Stratford and the Railway terminus at Te Kuiti in the Auckland district. The accepted tender is I'lOO m excess of the estimate. Only one other tender was recived. The statistics of the Registrar- General for the nine months ended September 30th show the colony has gained in population to the extent of 6000 in excess of arrivals over departures. Auckland, November 2. At a meeting of friends of the bible in schools movement Bishop Cowie presided. There was a representative attendance of clergy of various denominations. It was unanimously decided that a " scrip* ture text book in public schools association "be formed. It was resolved that every elector present in sympathy with the movement be one of a general com* mittee. Mastbbton, This Day. Sixty-six residents yesterday presented Mr Payton, of the Wairarnpa Daily Times, with the amount of costs incurred in defending the late libel case brought by Mr Pownall, and an address expres sive of the appreciation of the manner in which the paper had upheld principles of religion and morality. Dunkdin. November 2. At the Anglican Synod the report of the committee appointed Inst year to consider tho liquor trallio was rereiveJ. They stale they woro unable to convince themselves that the policy of tol«.l pro hibition is either practical or desirablr.