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Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1081, 24 January 1879, Page 5

. We have been desired to draw the special at aention of Parents to the fact that ahe Toko mairiro High School re-bpens on Monday next, when it will greatly asisist the Recjtor and Teachers, if all scholars are then in attendace as the first three days will be occupied ; in an | examihation for Standards daring the year. r $omb gentlemen are yieiting poultry yards in and around Milton just now and aru annexing ducks, geese, and fowls. lt| is doubtful whether Caucasians or Chinese are doing this, but as the police" have bsen warned, and are keeping a' „ sbarpwatch, doubtlesß the inyatery of race wiU f ; sooii be Boiyed. „ -. "■■' ..:■.•,:::':■■:..■.. :.' ■ - .-;i\U< : Mk E. Lax6k, : B.A.i who sometime back lectured with great success in DuD : edin, is, w« ''iixti glad to hear, 'going to celebrate the Anniver- 1 safy oFfibbert Burns by agrand^ecture ehtertaiumeht to be held in St/Ge6r|§reJHall, Mtlton, ' on Friday,' January 24th, (fcbii^^eninp). He j divides Mtf lecture into three parts, i..ej Ayrshire, Eiinburgb, arid EUißland. ' Prom what wejknbw and have heard of Mr : LalbrV we have no doubt his lecture 'will be a great success, and as to day is the anniversary of the birth of 'Scotland's poet, doubtless this faat : alonis Will cjuse a goodly attendanoe in honor ef Rustic Robin. ' .v..^yfi ::^:,'^

■ v Thb election of membra of tb« Milton SobQol Cdmtoittes i* advertised to take place on Monday next. „.-;;'..'■ >;; p •;;■:,-. :■ ;; ■..'/' \ ';' 'THO/IV Th« Hon The Colonial Treasurer purposes spending some time on a visit to Lake Wakatipu and the Goldfields. ; : ;< • A large quantity of grass has been grown and . cut in the Warepa district this season. It is now being cut and some fine stacks of bay are the-rtsults.-'-'f;.''';-^ ; ' : ■■';..•■■■■■■ .\-:i. :-.■■■■ ■■:■'■-■ _ > Mk' Thomas Slate* Pratt, formerly proprietor of th.e'Waikbuaiti Herald' and more recently connected with the '* LiceDßed Victuallers Gazette,*died this afternoon of congestion of the «lungs. '• •'"■■■ -- !i -^-' : - ■';.- ■''■'■■ ■ . _ ■ ■ ■■;■■ -'^ .. ': It would be well, if landowner* would understand tb at impeovni en ts are not subject to iaxa-. tiori, and ' would prepare themselves with all . necessary information as to what improvements they may have made, in order that when the total values of their elates are Bhown these improvements may be deducted from the same. . . Thk alterations in the ; running, of railway trains, consequent upon the opeoing of through; traffic, w : it,h., Jnyercargill, : have- notVt beenadvertised in this paper. \?e have; net yet taken; the sharp curve that would make : usslavish supporters of the Government, and -this is our punishment. It is . comfortable to know however, that we can hold on .our, own line despite the want of Ministerial favour. ■- - . ■ : Ant accident happened, on the evenibg of the' 15th, to Mr Duncan M'Kenzie's coacb, rnnning between Catlin's River and B&lclutha, when opposite Mr Downie's farm, at Puerua. At this place the driver left the horses and coach standing on the road, while he went to Mr Downie's house for some fruit that he had for Catlin's River. There were fortunately no passengers in the coacb, as the horses bolted, and rnnning up the side of a cutting, a )but a mile down thif road at a very sharp turn smashed the' coach into pieces, an<V very much injured one of the horses. ' A meetino of the Milton Ed ucation Committee - : was h-ld on Saturday, the 18fch instant. Present—Mr j. E. Brown ( hairman), and Messrs Clark, White, Dyer,, and Marryatt. The minutes of last meeting were read and'confirmed Letters from the Education Board, with regard to pupil teachers, fees for higher education, and . 'refund for cost of fence and desk, were received. The Inspector is to decide as to the suitableness of the pupil teachers nominated when he visits the school. The fees may be modified, with .the consent of the .teachers; and the -Board agreed to pay the cost , of desk, but. declined to pay for the fence. The balance-sheet, audited by Mr R. R. Jones, was submitted and approved of; A draft report for the year was read, and approved of . „A letter from the Rector was received, and the Chairman authorised to see that ; , the buildings were fit; for the opening of the schools, and to advertise their opening. As the Board bad not taken steps for ventilation of the High School, the. Chairman was instructed to communicate with the secretary. It was agreed to meet on Saturday, the 25 th, to nominate members for the Education Bo«rd. At. the New. Zealand Primitive Methodist Conference, it was arranged that the following should be the stations of ministers for the next year: — A ucklari||||Mr Joseph Long, Ist, and Mr John Dixori^RThairies, Mr George Smith; New Plymouth; Mr Joseph -Sharp ; Mariawatuj, ■M r .P. W.: Jones.; Wellington, . Ms DanieLDiitton.l F.R. AS., and Mr William S, Potter.; Chtist- : churcb, Mr James. Glover^..Greendale, Mr Alfred G. Joynes ; Aahburtpn^ Mr Brownlaib Westbrbok ; Timani, $Tr John Dumbell ; Qamaru, Mr Charles E. Barley; Dunedin, Mr JoLiah, Ward and Mr James Guy ; Inve'rcargill, Mr Charles E. 1 Ward' ; General Secretary and Ci>nnectionai Elitpr, Mr William J Dean. A WiLLINGTOir exchange ; says :-r-A seaman had a narrow escape from drowning last: night. ■HejWas however, safely taken put pi the water aualbronght ashore,' when,' according to a contemporary; Mr Biker, of: Baker and" Fairon, "rolled him in a cement cask to relieve bis distress," and the man was afterwards taken to the" Hospital-. •■'•' If, to this highly intelligent treatment' of the ! apparently drowned, Mr Baker bad added holding the man tip by his legs, and rubbing the bqdy, with salt, two other venerable "restoratives," the man's " distress " wqul'd have been " relieved "at once and for ever, arid the necessity of takV a i? him to the Mosp'itarwould have been' obviated, by his becoming duly qualified for admission to the * Morgue. ' : ■•■' v - : ?■*!"'<"■■ ' ■:; A B Aliwxi Supplementary •'Gazette ' contains the following notice .referring to the notice published in the 'New Zealand Gazette ' ,x>f 26th April, 1878, relative to the Australian International Exhibition tobe held in Sydney, New South Wales, in August, 1879 :-r"lt is hereby further notified, that the Government of New Zealand will ba prepared to receive and forward to Sydney ; any ; articles for exhibition which may be prepared by persons resident in this Colony. A Royal -Commission will be ap r pointed immediately, whose members will prepare and publish regulations under which they will receive exhibits for transmission^ As articles! for exhibition should be shippeS;frbm Wellington riot later than June next, persons wishing to exhibit are. invited to communicate with Dr Hector^ the i Chairman of the Royal Commissioners, without delay.' All expenses of transmitting and exhibiting approved articles Will : be; defrayed by the Government ; but as ; experience ihaa, proved that; in of this kind the best effjeotjs produced by a few well-displayedopbjects of considjeable^size; and as' the ; space; allowed ,to -:the. Cplony f or exhi-'bitiori-twill.be limited, a, carefnl, selection will have to be made,' ; so that. ; represen,tatioM may! ibfti completed The; Collectors-: of: Customs at;, various ipprta have jheeriins^tructred to receive exhibits/ and forward themtPithe Chairman of, JtheExWbition Commissioners at Wellingtony by ; whom they will be collected and transmitted to '. Sydney ,; but t np exhibits can be received Jater tban t 3Qjijhi '.sine, 1879^ . After tW,exhibiiionv is closed^ the exhibits will be p eith«r retpriied f ree 4 ' dfexppMft pf sold, or otherwise. -.'disppaed .of in Sydney at the desire of the exhibitors, but the' ; Government undertake no responsibility for loss or damage either in transit or during the Exhibition, or in regard to the price to be realisep if sold, nor will they gauiaiteiithe safe remittance

! A T WAi cf reapers and .binders took place at Ashburton ~ yesterday. , M 'Corm ick's machine took the first prize, doiDg its work in first clatt style throughout. A contest of reapers and binders also came off at Totara yesterday, under the auspices of the North Orago Agricultural and Pastoral Association. -There were about 600 people present. MCormick's machine tioished three acres in 3bra. 20min ; sft. cut ; average draught, 3Jewt. Beid and Gray's tinished three acres in 2hrs. 38min. ; sft. 9Jin. cut ; average draught, 3Jcwt. The votes were — For M^ormick's 27 ; for Reid and (Sfay'a, 10. A number of machines were sold on the ground. The Wellington 'Post ' says :—" The following telegram appeared in the ■ v * New 1 Zealand Times' on Tuesday morning :— ' Dunedin, Monday; The j debate between Mr Charles Bright and the; Rev. Mr Gwen on "The Divine Origin of Cbristchurcb" comtnenoss on the 21st of t -ia month.' This decision, should be eminently interesting. We always knew that Cbristcburch was a city which claimed l«fty decent, but we never before were aware that it pretended to divine brigin." • ■ Th» principles of the Amending Land Act, which >»»»" no-w paeaed both Houses, are.con- ; cisely sammied up as follows by the 'Argus '—V Ttie term iif license is prolonged . f evvck three years to fix, and of the lease from seven years to 14, and at the same time the annual payment is reduced from 2a to Is an acre. The selector will be entitled to claim the Crown grant at the expiration of six years from the i»sue of the license, or at any time during the currency of the lease. The second principle is selection, byndriiresidehti, who will have to pay at the : rate of £2 an acre for the land, and to execute improvements for the amount of ill per acre in the first three years, and an extra £1 an acre in ■the second three years. The proviso objected to by the Assembly and not insisted on by the ■Council, was that the applications of non-resi-dent selectors should be registered in the order in which they are received, arid that the earliest Bhould get the preference— a proviso intended to prevent favouritism on the part of the Minister of Lands. Not more than 200,000 acres iper_ annum will be open' for selection by nonresidents;" ■- : .-'- J '■-":■■■'' ''■■"■ '■■''--■■■ '''■ "'