(TOTTED TBESS ASSOOIATiOK.) Hokitika, January 7. A crowded public meeting was held at the Town Hall last evening (the Mayor presiding) to urge upon the Government the necessity of bringing the Westland Education Sub-division Act into operation' at once. ' The- meeting unanimously resolved to send-a delegate, to' Wellington, and selected Mr H. B. Bae,' member of the Hokitika School Committee, to proceed at once to interview' the; Minister: of Education on the subject.;. ■ ■ -,v " Adcklakd, January 7. > In the Besident -Magistrate’s Court to-day, Edwards, the: pedestrian, was sued for £SO by J. N. Pollock, batcher, of Wellington, alleged to have been lost.by the plaintiff acting as guarantor for Edwards when the latter bad an hotel in Wanganui. Edwards repudiated the debt, and said a blank cheque produced with his signature was a .forgery, ; His Worship nonsuited plaintiff with costs, £3 13a,. re marking that the whole thing was unsatisfac tory. Application has been made to tbeConrt to impound the cheque pending farther pra cecdings. . . -Six yonng ladies took the veil on Saturday at the Convent at Fonsonby. Bishop Luck officiated, being assisted by three priests.. , Dunedik, January 1: ' At tbs inquest on Mclntosh, found dead on the Portobello-road, it was shown that the accident occurred at the junction of an old and new rood, and that the cart had fallen from one to the other, over a bank 35ft high. The

evidence was that Mclntosh left Dunedin sober. A verdict of accidental death was re tamed. The Governor attended the concert of the Kennedy family tonight. The entire proceeds were in aid of the Benevolent Institute-and the Barns’ statue fuaJ, ami were £9O. The stakes at the Caledonian gathering were paid over liar'ce £43 for running ;. Dlnnie, and Murray, the dancer, come, next, with £BB each ; Dianie aLo gets £SO from the Society for, his presence. It is thought th*re u little probability of any of the challenges to Dlnnie coming to a contest. The sum taken at the gates for the three days was £1063, aud the stakes pad over amount to £SOO. Tauranq v, January 7. • H.M.S, Esplbgle sailed for Lyttelton at 9 a.m. Captain Bridge and officers came back from the Hot liukes ou Saturday evening. It is reported that the Governor and suite will proceed to the Sounds by the Kspi^gle.
