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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 700, 20 May 1879, Page 2

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This Day. The inquest on the body of the late Mrs. ' McLennan will be resumed on Friday next, at the Masonic Hotel. Dr. Hector is expected here to-morrow by the Wanaka, to give evidence at the inquest. There will also he three other witnesses, on their way here. One, is Mra. Beile, coming from Auckland, and who nursed the late Mrs. McLennan ; another male witness is on his way here from Ghristchurch, named Morley, a waiter at the Masonic Hotel, when Mr. McLennan and his late wife were staying there; also a female witness, who was servant at the Masonic Hotel, coming from Wellington. The body of the seaman " Charlie," who was drowned m Inner Harbor, about a week ago, was found yesterday afternoon by some fishermen, just about the spot where the boat capsized. Mr. J. Stuart, of the firm of Stuart and 00., merchants, has been obliged to assign his estate to Messrs. Wardrop and Pulford, for the benefit of his creditors. At the Education Board yesterday, Mr. Locke brought under notice a letter addressed to the Auckland Education Board, by the Chairman of the Gisborne and Matawhero School Committees, asking that Board to cause the revenue derived from Secondary Education Reserves m Poverty Bay, be made payable m future to the Hawke's Bi»y Board of Education, for the purpose of establishing a Secondary School m the Poverty Bay District. The Board decided to forward a copy of the fetter to the Minister of Education with expression of the Board's opinion that the wishes of the Poverty Bay Sohool Committees should be carried out. A letter was read from the Ormond School Committee to pay its secretary £15 per annum. The Board considered the expenditure of £15 per annum on a secretary for the Ormond School an unjustifiable expenditure.