INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
A commission consisting of the several heads of departments have been ho'dng an inspection of the various departments of th-i C vil Service in connection with the Government retrenchment scheme. The Government intend to classify all cleiks in the service, and each c'ass will have a maximum and minimum salary, so that no officer in that chass can get more than a fixed amount; also Civil Servants in future will enter ua cadela, and will ascend class by class as their merits warrant. As many of those engaged in the different departments in the same kind of work frequently differ considerably h the amount of their pay, an effort will be made to equalise the salaries so that one will not receive more than another.
On Saturday morning John Dank Gray, aged 65, walked into Uaigno’s butcher’s shop at Parnell, Auckland, and seizing a knife, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He is alive, but shockingly injured. Archibald Douglas, aged 71, was committed for trial at Waipu, Auckland, v on a pliargo of indecent assault on a young woman, and with supplying a drug to procure abortion,
A seaman named Char’es Johnston was seriously injured on board the Huiaat Wanganui on Saturday, They were heaving up a tank of malt when the chain gave waj and the derrick came down on Johnston’s head. He is not expected to recover. The quantity of growing kauri burnt at Pubipuhu, Auckland's considerably below what was estimated, and in all probability will not exceed two-thirds of the whole, if as much.
At a numerously attended meeting of farmers held at Christchurch on Saturday afternoon it was resolved “That the time has arrived when it is absolutely necessary that dairy factories should be started in Canterbury that she may successfully compete with other countries,” At the annual meeting of the Society it was resolved that the society was of opinion it would bs advisable in the iuteres a of the profession if the vaoition fixed by the Supreme Court ru es was abolished, and in lieu a vacation established frorp December 18th to Jan. 31st.
A new publication called the Trade Protection W zute has been issued at iVelliugtoD,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1710, 13 March 1888, Page 4
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368INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1710, 13 March 1888, Page 4
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