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Cromwell Argus, Volume XVII, Issue 832, 24 March 1885, Page 2

The Education Board last week granted £35 for additions to. Hawea School. The/Stow* says tha to wing to the inability of the Defence Department to supply the required tentage, there is a strong probability of the proposed encampment at Tahuua Park at Easter being abandoned. The Hon. W. J. M. Larnach, Minister of Mines and Customs, leaves Dunedin on his proposed tour of the Otago Goldfields in the course of three or four d;lys. It is understood that he is to be accompanied by Mr Vincent Pyke, M.H.R, . The inspectors having intimated to the Education Board that they often lost a great deal of time in visiting schools and finding them closed for holidays, it has been resolved that instructions be sent to school committees and teachers to forward to the Board a' notice of the date of any holidays one week beforehand. :■ At a meeting of the creditors in the bankrupt estate of Mrs George, Clyde, convened last week and presided over by Mr Ashcroft, official assignee, it was decided to sell the equity of redemption of the Dunstan Hotel property, also the right of license, to Mr Naylor; and further, that he retain in his own hands the furniture and effects of the hotel to cover his bill q|, sale.| that the cottage and sections in the occupation of Mr Fache be sold by auction, and the assignee be instructed to make the best possible terms with the mortgagee of the Riverton property. The assignee said, as far as he could see, after all charges were covered, and a liberal allowance was paid to the debtor, there would be nothing for distribution amongst the creditors. £ A six-roomed cottage in. Clyde, the property of Mr Robert Stewart, and occupied by Mr John Cox, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon last, together with the whole of the contents, excepting one box of clothing and a few books of accounts. Unfortunately there were but few adult males in the town at the time, the rest being away at the races, and the efforts of the few to save the property were futile. Mrs Cox had been washing all day, and at the time of the outbreak was hanging out some of the clothes, and therefore is unable to say how the fire originated. Though the house was insured for £IOO, and the contents for £l5O, both the landlord and tenant will be considerable losers, —Dmstan Times,