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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6064, 25 April 1881, Page 6

The many Auckland friends of Professor Thomas Kirk, F.L.S., will be glad to hear that the recent changes at the Wellington College, where he has been lecturer on Science for several years, has resulted in his promotion and pecuniary advancement. He has now been appointed lecturer on Natural History to the Canterbury College of Agriculture, at a salary of £4:50 per annum, and certain fees. The appointment is a much higher one and much more lucrative than the one recently advertised. The high and well-known attainments of Professor Kirk induced the Governors of the college to secure his services. Professor Kirk, before being appointed lecturer 011 Science in the "Wellington College, was for a long time connected with the Auckland Institute and local Museum, and Secretary to the Acclimatisation Society. _We learn that Mr. P. Leslie, of Wartle, Waikato, has sold his farm of SSO acres, to Mr. Barragh, for £7 per acre, cash. Mr. Leslie, after the residence of a good many years in Waikato, is about to leave for Australia, of which he is an old settler. Mr. Leslie's leaving will be felt as a loss to his neighbours in \Vaikato, as he has all along been highly respected for his straightforward disposition and frank and genial manners. Mi*. Barragh, who enters into possession of Wartle Farm, is an English farmer, who was advised to come to New Zealand by Messrs. Grant and Foster. He is possessed of ample skill and capital to work his farm. A good strong seam of coal has recently been discovered in the vicinity of the Thames. The discoverers have pegged off a claim, and applied to the Warden for a license to work it. The exact locality in which the seam has been found hits not yet transpired, but if it should prove to be in the immediate neighbourhood of the Thames, it will be cV/- incalculable raluc to the goldfield, for tbhre is an immense consumption of coaL heri? annually for mining pui*poses alone, t otwi.thstanding that water has been c " f - cvcra l of the crashing plants. Annual School Festival, in connection With tlio- TVarkworth School, took place on 1-Lt i ground, on Friday, 25th March SET tr i orc asselr »blcd one of the largest m the and children ever field whole Lt At 12 o'clock the *yhich the rnmmiH 5 " c *ccllent dinner, after committee commenced with their prcfframme °j aport3| (£ „ having bee.* eipended by them in prizes, consisting „t" valuable and useful books, toys, & c ?) omo