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}DT TELEQRAPH — OWN COKRKSPONDENT.J DUNEDIN, This Day.^ At next week's meeting of the Otago Education Board, Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, M.H.R., will move: "Whereas the methods obtaining for securing appointments place country teachers (equally qualified with metropolitan) at a'great disadvantage, and, further, should the law remain unamunded, the practice muy seriously affect the progress of country schools by hindering cupablo teacheis from hazarding a term in the country, lest that fthould militate against their professional future, this board, therefore, is of opinion that this should be changed, and that preference should be given, when filling such vacancies, to those teachers who, being equally qualified, have taken their share in tfib work of education in tho back country.'* "One of the finest concert hall organs, if not the finest, in the world," is what Mr. Lemare said to a resident of Dunedin last night, when asked his opinion about the Wellington Town Hall orguu. The first white womun who saw the Tokomairiro Plain has died in the person of Mrs. John Sttlmond, who has been a resident in rho Milton district since 1850. The deceased lady, who was eighty-five years ef age, arrived in the colony in the ship Larkins in 1849, and the following year Bettted at Karnfacd,;nsar Milton.