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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1391, 30 May 1883, Page 2

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IONITED PRESS ASSOCIATION Auckland, this day. Wahanui, Taonui, and other leading Kingite' Chiefs hold.aloof from the East Coast Land Company. News has been received by the mail that tho projected London Company will amalgamate with the New Zealand Land Company. Earl Shaftsbury, and the Bishops of London, Liverpool, and St Asaph are said to be amongst those interested in the : London Company. The report of the Commission of Enquiry into the charges made against G. P, Hogan by several female inmates entirely exonerate him. Gisborne, Wednesday. Whilst towing a' punt at Tolaga Bay on Sunday containing goods from on board the schooner Gisborne, with a [heavy sea on the bar, the punt was swamped, with goods the value of £SOO on board. ■ Tua Nihoriho, on behalf of, Ngatiporou, presented a greenstone patu ; to His Excellency, This relic his been handed down for twenty generations. Dunedin, Wednesday. Aynesley's Mosgiel Hotel was burned down last evening. Immediately after the fire George Cordoss Was missing, arid his trunk was found among the ashes, Charles Yickers, sentenced to fivo years at last sittings,, effected an escape from gaol this morning.,. Two hours afterwards he called at the ,;resideiice of a Mornington settler, .and" after threatening to shoot Mrs Warrington I got a change of clothing. The police are in pursuit. -

Wellington, Wednesday At a meeting of the Education Board to-day it was decided not' to appoint a pupil teacher to the Pernridge-School-It was decided, allow-the vacation to be altered so'that the holidays should take place while alterations to the school were being made. . Repairs were authorised to schools at Grey town, Kaiwaiwai, < and Matarawa. The Board agreed to build a. school at Te Whiti: providing! the settlers would grant the Board-two acres of land for schooland residence, Five pounds was voted fOr'the sewing teacher at, the Matarawa'school; and the Board considered - ; that! the. female assistant in the Carterton school should undertake the teaching of sewing in that, school, The Board decided to agree to the application from Pahiatua for a teacher's residence and school as soon as the land is properly vested in the Board. . Extensions to the at Gladstone school w'lir'eliiiithorisedi,' V The Board, refused^^ccfldyii; the request from Master&ifo^'a^wbVdshed. ,:[.<,.;:;■;:• ':'j^ r The applications from' Halefield -and Belvedere were until' next meeting. ■ \l% : Jt"/