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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1002, 26 February 1883, Page 2

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(per PRESS 'ASSOOIAriOU.) AUCKLAND, Feb, 22. The Presbyterian General Assembly sat to-day with closed ‘doors Tor The purpose of investigating the action taken by the Christchurch , Presbytery' in. deposiuglhe.Rev. C. Eraser, ;pf Christ* church, from the ministerial office. . After making inquiry into certain charges l -of immorality against him, the Assembly sustained the action of the Presbytery, The, Rev. D. B. Bruce and DrMcLeod were the only'dissentients. • " 1 - The official visitors of the . Kohima-’ rama Industrial Schoolare investigating a series of charges ; preferred by the girl Mary Wetherall, aged 19, against G. P. Hogan, the. master. The alleged offences are said to have occurred a year ago, when Hogan was. master., of the Howe-street Industrial School. , WELLINGTON/ Feb. 23. Captain Edwin says the" weather indications show ail exceptionally heavy rain everywhere during the next 48 hours. The races at Wairarapa have' had to be postponed from yesterday until Monday. : i,; -- : '' The Catholics of Wellington have decided to present the following address to Bishop MoranWe, the Catholic laity of the City of Wellington and surrounding districts, have watched with pleasure the, untiring efforts you have made in the interestof Christian education., We also view with satisfaction the college and numerous .convents’and schools which you have established since your arrival in, .this country. Wo*admire the candour,’ the courage, and the

ability which yon have always displayed in the pulpit, in the Press, and above all in your recent action in advocating onr claims before the South Dunedin electors. We thank God, who takes an account of small as well as great things, that He has raised you up to defend us and preside over a portion of His Church in this land. We therefore, one and all, rich and poor, have unanimously resolved to support yon morally and constitutionally, in your endeavour to obtain an equitable adjustment of our claims onHhe Government of this colony in regard to the education system.” The following tenders were received by the Public Works Department for the Kruaeranga. contract, WaikatoThnracs railway. Accepted—Robinson and Gordon, Auckland, £7,117. Declined—John Brett and G. Millinger, £7756 ; J. J. O’Brien, £7,8U0 ; Mace and Basset, Patea, £8,897 ; Hunt and White, Auckland, £9,848. , *

CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 23. The North Canterbury Educational Institute to-day resolved to request the Minister, for Education to take steps, for; the appointment of pupil teachers on probation for three,months, ultimate appointment to be subject to the approval of the Inspector; pupil-teachers to be appointed for five years, and,none admitted hut such as have passed the; ’’ Sixth Standard.s«it the 'cniirtoutttm bo the same throughout the colony ; that the.fifth year examination of pupilteachers be tho samc as for E certificate ; that all examinations be conducted from one centre. The Governor to-dny visited the Kaiapoi woollen factory, .the- Belfast refriW’gcrnting works, and the Maori pa, and opefaed.the Society of -Arts Exhibition, of which he consented to be patron. -■ •‘lyttelton, Feb. 23. The Omapere ard Mahiimpua collided ,in the inner harbonr this ? afternoon. The Omapcre struck the Mahinapua three feet off her stern, on the starboard side; and smashed in her plates and broke the stern. She was not making any water; GREYMOUTH, Fob. 22. : , i There was ashock,of. earthquake this evening, about ten minutes past 9 o’clock; direction west to east, and motion upward. j; "V- LYILL, 28r ! John Davidson nnd 7 Mary,Gramatica ; were to-day committed for trial at the sitting of the Supreme. Court, to be held .-.-at Nelson in June next, for the wilful ; murder of Dennis Quinlan, at Lyell, on the’29th of January last. The only ' fresh disclosure is that Mary Graraatica says Davidson told her he had stabbed Quinlan to the heart. The ; prosecution ' was .conducted by Inspector Emerson. ° TIMARU, Feb 23. At the annual meeting of the Tiraanv . Gas Company to-night a dividend of 7£ ,per gent, (or the past half-year was declared, making 15 per cent, for the year.' The consumption for the year was about millions of feet, and of coal carbonised 575 tons. Greyraonth coal only was used, and the gas declared to be of the highest quality. Gas stoves are coming into use. DUNEDIN, Feb. 22. John? Doyle, a man following the occupation of a carpenter at a farm in Lake Wanaka District, was arrested last Thursday on a charge of having fired a revolver at one Angus J. 'Robertson, with intent to do him grievous bodily barm. It seems that the .men were just about retiring, between Hand 12 o’clock on Wednesday night, when Doyle suddenly rushed out of His. room with a revolver, and presenting,.it: close to Robertson’s head, pulled the trigger. The cap snapped, but fortn-j nately the chamber was empty. Finding this, Doyle made a dash at Robert- ’ sofa’s face with .the weapon,’ and hit him ,a,. nasty.... blow. .The revolver was; frOm the assailafat by a Witness of; of\e assault. On examination it was found that the revolver was loaded ‘in three chambers, the others'being empty.; The hammer falling on 'one of these; |Undo.nbtedly saved . Robertson’s ■ life, as the muzzle was held within a few; finches 'of hishead. Doyle is now lodged; ia. Clyde.Gaol. . ' VCanterbury beat Otago easily in the Interprovincial boat race on: the Taieri; tKver to-day.- H " KUMAR A, Feb. 24. . In consequence of some too intimate correspondence written by McKenzie; Ross to a married lady, said to be acting ' stewardess dir ‘one’ of the Anchor Line of steamers, her mother, who keeps the Greymouth Hotel, in Knraara, last evening, horsewhipped the young man in the •street. The Times publishes the letter.