TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 152, 5 June 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.)" Auckland, June '2i» At a meeting ot the Board of Education, a resolution was passed that the Board approve the suggestion contained m Principal Heath's letter on calisthenics at the Girls' High School, and resolve that attendance at drill as prescribed by the school syllabus be enforced on pupils, unless a medical certificate be produced to the head master stating that such exercises would be without doubt injurious to the scholar. That a circular to parents and guardians be drawn up calling . attention to the dangers of the present style of dress, and its nnsuitableness to the purposes of physical developement. That the Inspector shall arrange for a periodical examination m calisthenics as m Gther subjects. In the course of the discussion, it was suggested that the girls should be dressed m & neat, serviceable, and uniform, dress. , At the Native Lands Court, Cambridge, Mr Gwynne, a surveyor, would not produced plan, as the survey was not paid for. The Judge ordered the production of the plan under a penalty. Mr, Gwynne then submitted. In future recalcitrants will be fined £20 for each non-appearance. Napier, June 2. The Hinemoa, with the- Governor and suite, left at 3 p.m. yesterday. It was blowing fresh from the south, and the steamer meeting a gale at night, pat back, arriving m the roadstead early this morning Auckland, Jane 4. { Information has been received here of the drowning, on Thursday last, of Captain James, of tne cutter Wave, on the voyage from Mercury Bay, to Suva, by being washed overboard. Deceased, who tf as formerly pilot here, leaves a "wife and six children. -■",,.- ' WELMBraTON, June 4. ■ Much excitement was caused at Garterton yesterday through tlbe -'arrest of; Eli, Thomas, and Joseph Strawbridge, farmers of W aihaheke on suspicion of being connected with the recent robberies of drapery and boots. Some of the articles found have been identified. They aDDear this afternoon.