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Temuka Leader, Issue 1811, 3 November 1888, Page 2

' A heavy fall of snow occurred at Duoedin on Wednesday night. ; Government have received a cablegram from the Oolonial Office to the effect that Her Majesty will be recommended to assent to the Governors Sal wyßillr™At » meeting of the Exhibition Committee at Dunedin on Thursday it wae decided, in view of the.warm support accorded, to make it intercolonial. Tho prospectus was adopted, and iti'waa decided to ask His Excellency to become patron, :; \ The Hon. T. W. flislop has sent a reply to the resolution passed at a public meeting at Lyttelton requesting: further enquiry into the cause of Gaoler O'Brien's reduction and transfer. The Minister states that the i»se had been fully investigated by Messrs JJsethaTs.'and Westenra, and also by the Minister of Justice. He is therefore unable to interfere. i The Commission now sitting in Sydney to discuss M. Pasteur's sohenie for exter minatiug rabbits, &c, are now engaged drawing up a report for representation to the New South Wales Parliament. As soon as the report is presented it will, 'along with the appendices, be available for all Governments who have sent a representative, [t is expected that this will be in the hands of the Ministers in a short time. A,t the meeting of the North Cantefbuijr Board of Education it was resolved thaf, }n compliance with the request of the united school committees interested, the names al} teachers applying for vacant situations should be submitted to them, distinguishing the names approved by the board from those net considered suitable. It was decided to co-operate with the South Canterbury Education Board r« having payments made on the working average instead of the strict average.