Telegraphic.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3256, 15 July 1889, Page 2

Telegraphic.

PASTORAL. Timabu, July 14. At a well-attended general meeting Of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Society on Saturday, a resolution was passed approving the proposal of the Hawks Bay Association tbut an Act should be passed imposing an anuual tax of £lO on all entire horses, the amount collected to be distributed in tho several districts in premiums on good horses. A proposal to except entires kept by a

i person for his own use only was negatived by a small majority. The idea is to weed out inferior horses. Education Boards. Auckland, July 14. In regard to tho proposal-of the Board of Education to reorganise the teaching staffs by sending experienced teachers from the city schools to those of the country, the Auckland Branch Educational Institute have expressed an opinion that it is undesirable that large olasses should Jbe entrusted to young and iuexperienced teachers. Athletics. ■• Auckland, July 14, The first grand handicap, ft footrace of 100 yds lor a stake of LSO, was run on a cinder track at the Zealandia Rink on Saturday, and was won by J. Cummings. Changed Wickets, CimisTOHUHcu, July 14. Mr Fowkc, the well-known New Zealand wicket keeper, leaves Christchurch on Thursday, per Wairarapa, for Auckland, under engagement to Messrs McArthur and Co, FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. Timaru, July 14. At the half yearly meeting of tho 1.0.0. F., M.U., Lyttelton District, held last night, it was agreed to support the proposal of the Wellington Lodge to have a clause added to section 15 of tho Friendly Societies 1 Act, 1882, that all properties of ■ friendly and benefit societies be exempt from local or general taxation Bankruptcy. Oamaru, July 18. 1 Gray and Aldrich, millers and grain merchants here, filled a declara- ' lion in bankruptcy to-day. Death in the Hold. Dukedin, Friday. . August William Bjermgvist, a j Swedish sailor employed in the steamer Invercavgill, was killed this . morning by timber falling on him in the hold. He was married and has a family, EMBEZZLEMENT AND ESCAPE OF PRISONER, 3 Thames, Monday.

The Police Court was crowded today when tho charges of embezzlement against P. C, Dean, lato Town Clerk, wero called on, The accused did not appear, and the Crown prosecutor said he had escaped in a boat on Thursday, night. His embezzlements amounted to £IOOO and was carried on over a series of years by an artistic system of deceit and forgery, The R.M, estreated the bonds and ordered a fresh warrant to be issued.