SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 485, 17 November 1877, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FEOM OUR OWN COIUMOSPOXDEJTT.) 4i DUA'EDIJf. ISToveinber 17. The Education Board and the Rector of the High School are at loggerheads again. Tlie latter declines to make any recommendation as to granting leave of absence to one of the masters though called upon to. do so. It will be remembered that this was one of the principal causes of the late dispute, resulting in the appointment of the Commission. The Rector also l-efuses to allow Mr. Petrie, the Inspector of Schools, to conduct the examination of the Hig i School pupils, alleging his incompetent!j to do so. A stormy discussion is expected at the next Board meeting. The publication of the report of the Commission is eag.-rly looked forward to now.

At t -e adjourned inquiry touching the deat i of Ann Harper, medical evidence said her death was from a blow on the head with a weapon, and could not have resulted from a fall. In deceased's house the police found an iron on which were several hairs. The room was saturated with blood. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against her husband. The total contributions to the Indian F.-unine Relief Fund to date amounts to L33IL.

The Times- strongly urges Sir Julius Vogel's re-appointment to the AgeutGeiieralship, saying that it would be a graceful as well as a jusT act, and stand out in pleasant contrast to tiie conduct of late Ministers, who were raised by Sir Julius Vogel's hand- an^nurtured by him into the similitude. .of i Ministers, and tnrew.hini over when it served their purposes, ait I are now ■prepared to sacrifice liii'n wholly in order-to. reward the servile sycopLanjy of Mr. Stafford,