TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
[Pun Fiusss Agenost.] Auckland, Saturday. An Education Board deputation waited on tlie Superintendent to represent that the Board was completely out of funds to enable it to carry on. The deputation said the present expenditure on teachers’ salaries alone was £17,000 per annum ; administration, inspection, school rents, fittings, &c,, about £3OOO, The rate this year would only yield £12,000, leaving a deficiency of £BOOO to be provided for. The endowments would not .yield more than £4OO a year, many being valueless for leasing. His Honor considered the question of education of paramount importance in the colony, and it should bo dealt with by the General 'Government. Ho was convinced that if the present colonial revenue were administered with proper economy, the savings
alone would be sufficient to educate the whole colony. He was not satisfied with the present mode of rating, which was unfair. The subject should receive his most earnest attention, and he would do his best to place the educational system of the province on a more secure basis, but pending the meeting of the Council he would see the wants of the Board provided for. Two magistrates, Brabaut and Major Roberts, have been sitting for tlio last few days here, holding a Court of Inquiry oa Captain Gilbert Mair, well-known for his services
against Te Kooti in 1870 in this district. The charges are considered here to be paltry and trumped-np. William Hancock, mate of the brig Derwent, has been missing several days, and it is feared has been drowned. Ghahajisiown, Saturday. Mi'. Masters, of the Pyrites Reduction Works, has furnished the Evening Star with a report of assays made by him of two pieces of stone knocked out by himself from the Prospectors’ Reefs at Ohinemuri.: No. 1, from the large or main reef, gave a yield at the rate of 3ozs. Sdwts. Sgrs, gold, and 14ozs. Ifidwts. of silver to the ton. The value per ton of ore is £l6 14s. lOd. No. 2 reef, higher up the hill gave loz. 12dwts. 6grs. of gold, 19ozs. sdwts. llgxs. of silver; value per ton, £ll ss. 4Jd. Mr. Masters says it will be apparent that this claim’s stone will require special treatment, as an ordinary battery will not save the metals contained in it. The gold returns for the week are about 1500ozs. It is reported that the Queen of Beauty will discharge all their men to-day, owing to the want of water to crush with. This will throw about 150 men out of work, between the mine and the batteries. Napier, Saturday. Thomas McCarthy, game-dealer, was fined £2, and costs, for selling wild ducks out of season. W. K. McLean has resigned the town clerkship. Fresh applications are called for. True Blue, the Wanganui horse that ran at the Napier races, died at the Seventy-Mile Bush on the road home. Nelson, Saturday.
There was a slight explosion at the gasworks last night, injuring two men who were clearing out the scrubber, in which a small quantity of gas had been left. One man was a good deal burned about the face and neck. Westpokt, Saturday. At a cattle sale on Wednesday prices ranged from 375, 6d. to 40s. per lOOlbs. Hokitika, Saturday. A presentation and address were made to Judge Harvey by a large number of hia friends, on his leaving the Coast. He leaves for Otago by the Albion. Dusedik, Saturday. The papers this morning contain two columns of correspondence between the Provincial and General Governments re the Ocean Beach railway. The Superintendent’s letters all support the scheme, especially on sanitary grounds. The wind-up of the matter is that the Colonial Government will not allow the company to proceed with the line until a Bill is passed. Judge Gray is rapidly sinking.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4381, 5 April 1875, Page 2
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