KAKARAMEA.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 966, 1 December 1882, Page 3

KAKARAMEA.

(from our correspondent.) Thursday. Mr F. E. Jackson held his usual monthly sale on Friday last. There was a moderate attendance. 854 head of cattle were yarded, and 273 sold. Prices ruled as follow's :—Weaners £2 2s (3d, cows £3, bullocks £5 11s 6d, £4 Is, and £5 7s 6d ; 3'earliugs £2 15s. 115 sheep were presented and sold at 6s 6d. Mr Inspector Foulis will visit the Kakaramea School on Friday, for the purpose of passing the children in the various standards. A meeting of the School Committee was held on Tuesday evening. Present : Messrs Slater, O’Sullivan and Payne. A letter from the Education Board, stating that the question of repairing school chimneys and hearths had been referred to the Board’s architect, was read and commented on. It was decided to ask (he parents of children attending the School to get up a tea-meeting on the,day of breaking up ; and also that members of the Committee and the Teacher should canvass the district for subscriptions towards a prize fund. The meeting adjourned sine die. A little son of Mr Clover at the Mill met with a painful accident tlie other day, by falling from a ladder. The pain which he experienced when moving bis arm caused his parents to take him to Dr. Croft, who found that the collar-bone w r as broken. The bone was promptly set, and the little sufferer is progressing favorably.