INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1767, 24 July 1888, Page 4

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

The applicitions for shares in the Kauri Timber Company in Auckland now amount to £55,223. At Wellington the Magistrate dismissed the charge against the Agnews, remarking liny were of a trumpery natuie. A large number of passengers from Americ* srecn board the R.M.S, Mariposa en route to visit the Melbourne Exhibition. An alarm was given at Dunedin on Saturday night to test the alacrity with which volunteers would turn out in case of a surprise. Owing to many being engaged at business and otherwise, the muster was not so large as was expected. The Navals, Artillery, and the Hussars, showed up wnll, however, and 'he B. Battery md JN avals had guns at Ocean Beach in fighting trim very smartly. At a meeting, of the Auckland Board of Education Mr 'Thoo. Cooper moved a resolution providing that the staff and salaries of teachers of Public Schools of the colony be baaed upon a uniform scale, and that no child who has passed the Sixth Standard be allowed to attend the Public Schools. He also submitted a scale for the reduction of salaries and atnnded regulations of the staff, by which head tecioheis’ salaries would range from £350 to £6OO per annum, and those of first assistants from £2OO to £IOO, according to the number of children in the schools, second and third assistants being paid £76 and £SO per'year respectively. Mr Cooper claimed that by this means and by amended regulations of st-ff of teachers a saving of £75,000 per year would be effected. The motion was discus ed at great length, and eventually its further consideration was postponed for two month". Oury,o e of the etc .ped French convicts was taken before the acting-Governor at Welling'on on Friday, and after argument by counsel His Excellency said there was no doubt prisoner w»s the man referred to io the document forwarded from New Caledoni*. He would therefore order that he should bo returned to the French Coosu 1 . One cou'd not help sympathising with the man, seti. g that h« had gone through so much misery, but the people of New Ziaiand did n> t want the colony to become « receptacle for New Caledonian envies, Ha Excellency d reeled the interpreter to imoriu the prisoner that, he would be surrendered to the French Consul at tliH end of fifteen days, but in the meantime he could apply to the Supreme Court for a habeas corpus. On the following day Qaspanni, who escaped with Cuty from New Caledonia, was simi urly • eslt with.