LATEST TELEGMMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent. LATEST FROM THAMES.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 May 1887, Page 2

LATEST TELEGMMS. (By Electric Telegraph.) From Our Own Correspondent. LATEST FROM THAMES.

Thames, Last Night. In tho Warden^ Court this afternoon, the plaint lodged by Frederick Challis aguiust the owners of the Paroquet claim", Waiomo, pn the ground of non-working, was dismissed, each party to pay their own costs. The case occupied two days, and excited considerable interest.

THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. ' Auckland, Last Night. Mr Rice, Secretary to Board of Education has drawn up a long report in answer to Inspector O'Sullivan's attack upon administration of education in Auckland . He combats section by section the opinions expressed by the Inspector. At the Board meeting to-day, Mr Goldie moved, " That the report of Mr o 'Sullivan be received, and that he be requested to furnish the Board with necessary proof of the charges contained therein, and further, that copios of the report of Messrs Goodwin and Fidler for sections of the districts they have examined during the period refened to, with any other information bearing upon the subject under discussion be laid upon the table at the earliest possible moment." Carried. <

WRECK OP THE NORTHUMBERLAND. The Northumberland has completely broken up, and the cargo and wreckage is strewn along the beach at Napier for several miles. The bodies of three of those drowned have been recovered.

LATEST PARLIAMENTARY. EARLY DISSOLUTION PROBABLE. Wellington, Last Night. Some sensation has been caused amongst members by a lumour to the effect that at a Cabinet meeting held this afternoon it was decided to bring down the Public Works Statement immediately. This is supposed to mean dissolution. It lias transpired that Sir R. Stout wanted to get clause 3 struck out of the Representation Bill, with a view of insert ing an amended clauso, but afte/ a cautious " whipping" he has found that members were so evenly divided on the proposal, that it would be venturing on delicate grounds to propose it, and the idea h«s been abandoned To-night there will be any amount of stonewalling, and the result of the sitting will doubtless be to show that it is impossible to pass the Representation Bill. On Tuesday Ministers will want to take the second reading of the Customs Taiiff Bill, but this will be objected to on the grounds that the representation difficulty must bo first solved ; and if a majority of the House insist on that being the coursa of events, I opino that Government will accept their ruling as a vote of want of confidence. Your readers will gather from the foregoing that i anticipate that tho issue will be fought out on the finance debate, which will probably extend over a fortnight, as almost every member ot the House is sure to have something to say.