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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3523, 30 May 1890, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CHRisicnoncH, May 29, The North Canterbury Board of Education carried a motion that there should be a uniform system of standard examination throughout the colony.and that the test questions should bu prepared by the Education Department. . Ihe Board appointed a committee to consider to what extent the uniformity of text books can be secured in the schools of that district. The Board also decided that the syllabus should be made more elastic.

Tho oriminal sitings of the Supreme Court closed this evening. Richard Morran. for fraudulent bankruptcy, was sentenced to three months' hard labour; Henry Cape Williamson, for a similar offence, was sentenced to sis months' hard labour..

Tho .Canterbury branch of the Eaihvay- Servants' Booiety, unanimously passed a vote of thanks to and confidence in the Executive in' regard to their recent action, At the. annual meeting of tho Cbristchurch Horticultural Society to-uight, Mr E, C. J. Stevens \m ro-elected President. It was decided to have three classes for nurserymen and cottagers at futuro shows, instead of two as heretofore.

Auckland, Uay29.

A petition -was received: to-night' by the City Council asking chat the Publio Library should be opened between ij and 7, and 9 and 10 p.m., aVbefore the repoi|t. curtailment of the hours, There we 1072' signatures to the which was referred to the Library Committee, The five men recently turned away from the asylum are, still at the Pri-bu Brigade Home. Taylor haying escaped, ani} they will remain there untjl the arrival pf Dx Maopgor, who is expected to visit Auckland shortly,

Mr Richardson at Kaiapoi. CnmsWHUHon, May 29, Mr E, Richardson addressod the electors at Kaiapoi to-night, He condemned Mr Fergus' proposal to consolidate the Iqotl loans and to borrow by means pf land debentures. Ho ppritenil.cd that the Kailway 0om : missioners pould have obtained as good financial results as they Had without pressing so hardly a* they had done on those who bad used the railways, Ho counseled the railway employs to unite mm i a'.ion with firmness, and the Commissioners to recogliise SUtl oiiWiiee unions. It wouhj be a great mistake to £?jl the railways. Ho was. opposed to New Zealand joining an Australian Federation, ''■' ■) : ;"

"" CpwsTCHuifcjj, May 29. T|)A racehorse Oadogan, with'the mares Ethel,: Jfons'ense, SijD.sjta. Helena, La Mode, Caprice, Maritaua, Albania, and Doris, were shipped to Sydney per Hauroto to-day.

:.;: An Ambitious Sculler. ' \ Aucklakd, May 29. i T* Sullivan, who recently won the Humteiir sculling championship of the Colony, intends to proceed to Sydney to enter on a sculling oareer. Ho will be trained by Matterson. Sullivan, who is an Aucklander, has resigned his position in the Torpedo Corps, •'. ' A Profitable Concern. JAuoklakd, May 29.. The annual report of the Auckland Fibre Company shows a net profit of £4589, of which £1855 hag,been devoted to a reduction- of the profit and loss debit balance, and £BOO to the special account for repairs. ~

Early ClosingDunedin, May 29. At »pn'Ho meeting at fioslyn. to. night, resolutiotia were passed sympathising with the early closing movement, and those present pledged themselves to abstain from dealing with those who did not. close early. All the shopkeepers in the district have Jiillim in with the movement.