TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1, 29 May 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PttKSS ASSOCIATION,) Hokixika, Thursday. A meeting of the Gas Company took place this uv*ning. There was a large attendance of shareholders. The Auditors' and Directors' reports, together with the statement of uuouuutH for thu year, wuru read and received. A diridenp uf 8s jtershwe was declared, which with 8^ paid iti November, makes 13.33 per cent, for the year. Dunedin, Thursday. lusp«ctor Petrio has drawn the attention uf the Education Board to the account of the peripatetic, system of touching sciatica «s carried out by the niriniiigfiaiii School Board, • tie pointß out thai though an elaborate prograine of eleaientury Hciencu Itaßous are prescribed, tliuy hav<* proved anything but 11 success, uutl nugijestß that thu Board uhould follow thu fXiiinpls of Birmingitain, and establish llie peripatetic system for Diiuetlin and subwbs, &nd ie would gnuJtully extend throughout the couutry. The first cost at Birmingham wa» .£IOOO, and the year's expenses £500, -.u«J Mr Potrie thinks £600 a year would k«tep au establishment m workitig order her«. , The portmanteau factory m Kingstreet, occupied by Bcojamiu Kitt, was burned down this morning. The fiiruieuro was insured m the South British for i£2(JO. The building was insured iv the Colwuiul for £100. The Premier Company at Macetown obtaiued 3720z retorted gold from 550 ton*.