LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 185, 8 May 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per press Telegraph agency.]

Wellington, May 8. News lias been received here that thd cable between Amoy and Shangliai & broken.

Christchurch, .May 7. The funeral of Drury, the engine driver, Who was killed by the recent aCcidettt dn the railway, took place yesterday. Over.2ooo persons followed the hearse. ■. The railway employees on the South line were brought to Christ church by special train.' All the heads of the Kail way Department also word present. . 1 Ten scholarships are offered" by the Board of Education this year.' At the special conferenCeof School Teachers, wmchjthe Canterbury menu here of the Assembly afo invited to attend, on Saturday next, the following resolutions will be ptbposed That education be free, compulsory, but re* ligious and unsectarian, .supported by a Conscience clause.“ That no certifr Cates be issued teachers, on ekaminatioh, higher than sectmejl'class/’ “ Firsts class to bo obtained by. gUccess as a teacher, and length of service 'Only.** . “ That Inspectors be appointed by Central authority and one shall be ap> pointed be Chief Inspector, as in Engi land, so as to render the system of ex- 1 Uminatiott uniform' throughout (ho Colony/’ “ That it is desirable to take steps -to form a. National ’ Union of Teachers. 1 * That the standing of teachers be differently- defined." , - , . / Imy* At the Resident-Magistrate’s Court a number of publicans have been sum* mpned for neglecting to. take out licences for extra\barsu *f. Barrett| Devonshire, Arms Botet, was taken as a test cUse. .The evidence showed there.- -were . a half ..door and U small window at which persons, while stand, ing in the passage, br. in a room which opened into the street, could be served with liqnor from the. bar. Cojunsel for, the, defence urged that it Wqs absurd tO call these separate. bars, nonsuch defi- , nitioft was placed bii the word “ bar ’* in England, nOr Could it, in cbnimoU sense, bp, . dsno here. The Bench said ‘‘The Licensing Act-, of 1873/' di* l tinctiy sUid the WOrd “ bar.*’.slimild be deemed to include any Or lobby, opening immediately On to the Street, itl which the public, ate with refreshments.\ A dtie of £5 was ' imposed. Notice df appeal. WUs lodged. Seven other.cases WerAiidjdUiSied ,*• sind dtß.; 1 —- —. - ’ ■

5. : t An disturbance took place lil St. Andrew’s Rresbyteiian. Church yesterday at the eleven o’clock servicC; ti sdenis the majority Of tlie congrej'atioh wish the intiodiiOtictdr of the English Presbyterian hytiih ’book, but ther-i are sopie aild when seryice .commenced. yesterday; morning by singing a hytrill. R.' Miller got on the platform, and there commenced td r«id a grofeht against the introduction .Of , thd hyrari bodk; ’ Hltlmately hid voice was drowned by that of the Minister, the Mrspw, and by the, music of the choir, blithe ended by throwing his . Written protest at the Minister, 4nd, it fell among the congregation. Much indignation is said tO oe felt with regard to Miller’s action. .A jSrivate letter has jhst been r£» fcCived hdre, stating that 'the Lystei* Opera Company wfill hot visit NeW Zealand for six - months; ... _. . May 8; A rile u nisi ” for a new trial had been granted in the case of Russell Vi omythiesj on the ground of by jtidge. . ■/•.

■ / ; May 7. The Stelld ICavCs 'this evening. The Hon. Mr Whitaker Is a passenger. At a meeting of the . Acclimatisation Society to-day* it was stated that tWO hundred thousand Ova had been ordered from California, and. the secretary wad Instructed to write to . the Otagd Acclimatisation Society to make arrangements for. the. Supply of trout ova. A letter received from the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society apolm giSed for the rumor circulated that it bad noV received a fair proportion of the salmoU OVa lately imported, and stated it was perfectly satisfied it had been fairly treated, |7eW pLVjfoUTH, May 8. At the Supreme Court tbete Was only One person for trial—K. E. Meredith* mte clerk to the Resident Migistrate’S Court, at Carlyle and Hawed: He Wad found guilty nf eolbefelertfettt, and sen* tenced to two years’ imprisqnmfent. A shock of earthquake Wfii felt tbid fnotnmg* at f.So. '