Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 14 November 1907, Page 24

Interprovincial

The total cash receipts for the three days' metropolitan show at Christchurch have been ascertained to be £1387 15s 3d, as against £1313 13s 4.d for the four days' show last year.

The Education Department is about to invite tenders for the supply of 170,000 medals for distribution amongst ithe school children of the Dominion to" commemorate the raising of New Zealand to a Dominion. The medals are to be of magnolium, a metal as light as aluminium, and equally as hard.

The Government intends to give a "bonus of £1000 if 1000 tons of good, marketable copper- are produced from ores mined and smelted in 'New Zealand on or before June 30, 1909. If a second 1000 tons are produced between July 1, 1909, and June 30, 1910, the bionus payable will be £500, and if a third 1000 tons be producea in the following year a similar amount -will be paid.

The ' Oamaru Mail ' says that the survey of the Otekaike estate is about completed and the rentals will he fixed shortly. Sixty sections are provided for, varying from 10 to 1000 acres, the smaller ones being near Xhe railway station, where about 20 have been laid off. Afcout 350 acres have been reserved , round Otekaike House, winch is to be used for some ~ other purpose. Two school sites have been set aside. The pastoral runs hitherto held by Messrs. R. Campbell and Sons are being inspected with a view to subdivision.

Two young Japanese, charged at the Auckland Magistrate's Court -^th deserting from a British' ship at Hobart, submitted a written statement which has been translated into Jknglish. It sets out that they were Japanese students who had left Japan to make themselves acquainted with ' that grand, honorable, English nation, rulers of the world.' 'They asked that 1 they should not be compelled to return -to the ship with 1 a dishonorable face,' for they would have no resource - but death as Japanese. The case was adjourned to obtain an interpreter.

A return presented to Parliament gives the numbers of attendants (male and female) who have resigned from the xnental hospitals during- the last two years. The figures are :— Hospitals : .Auckland, male 17, female 24 ; Christchurch, 4 and 21 ; Seacliff, 15 and 25 ; Hokitilca, 3 and 2 ; Nelson, 2 ana 4 ; Porirua, 7 and 20 • Wellington, 8 and 13 ; totals, 56 and 109. Experience shows that irany. who resign to get married give other reasons for leaving. Only 30 females gave this as their reason for leaving. ' Twenty-five females and one male resigned on being reprimanded.

The practical examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music were conducted by Mr. Richard Cummings in Greymouth last .week. Ten candidates were prepared by the Sisters of Mercy, and all passed, two obtaining distinction. The following is the list :— Advanced grade (local centre)— Joan O'Rci'ly, 103. Intermediate grade (local centre)— Glady- Hannam, 111). Higher division (school examinations)— Kathleen -Martin, 125 ; Grace Mallinson, 112.' Lower division (school examinations)— Rita Hannan,:l2o ; Hilda Garth, 115 ; Mary O'Neill 111 Elementary division (school examinations)— Daphne ?* ce n aph lT (distinction), 134; Veda Michel (distinction), 130 ; May Johnson, 127. ''

At trie University College' annual examination (writes °? r^ AVcklanaA V cklana correspondent) of our Catholic •students hay« been successful, among thTese being Messrs M. S. Coughlan, T. J. O'Meara, and K. Mahoney. Mr' £ S* m °u Ughlai ? di T stin S" is hed himself- in Physics, and" Mr. &. Mahoney in Jurisprudence and Constitutional Hisw^t n\ ' Mah J n V is an ex-student of the Sacred Heart College, conducted the MarisT Brothers Another ex-pupil of tfie same college; Mr. P. Amodeo rew yy ww P tr Sed + the a ? nual lamination at Victoria * College, Wellington, and another, Mr. C. Simmons after \ • successful year's study^ at Otago UniverSfy laf left ' the Dominion to enter 'Guy's Hospital, London The memorial pulpit to the late Very Rev Father T w h e^ cted L in theohureW of the Sacred I^art Thoindon, by - the Catholic clergy of the Wellington archdiocese, (says* the < Dominion *) has Tow be°n Plnced in Position. The Pulpit is of Oamaru stone with with that of the church. A marble tablet is ■ affixed stating lhat the puli>it is in memory of Father T C W* The architect was Mr. Hickmoit, of Christchurch %iv\ the pulpit has been erected under .his superintendence. '