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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 6984, 6 February 1886, Page 2

The valuation of the area of the Education Board Reserves, taken for the Moturoa Railway, was returned to the Government as £380; but the compensation tendered by the Public Works Department amounts to only £308 10d. The area of land tuken is 7a. Or. 26p. The High School re-opened last week with 36 boys and 24 girls, being an increase of 5 boyb. There is na room for an accession to the number of tho girls, all the arailable accommodation of that department being taken up. The Rev. Mr. Lee, who has been attending the Wesleyan Conference in Christchurch, and who has been absent about a month, returned to New 'Plymouth last night. A little excitement was caused in Devon street to-day by one gentleman assaulting another. The parties were quickly separated. A meeting of the New Plymouth School Committee was held on Friday, night, when the question of appointing a second mister to the Central School vras considered. ■ It appears that no reply had been received from the Education Board to the, request that the whole of the applications for the position should be submitted to the Cornand the latter body in consequence has decided not to make any recommendation until their application is acceded to. Stratford is evidently beginning to attract outside notice, and its land becoming appreciated by people at a distance. A. HOUllnuuu Ju nairglilKcS, Tnrltlag to tUc Secretary of the Education Reserves Board, says that he is anxious to occupy about 1,000 acres of tho Education reserves, and is prepared to spend fully £3,000 in felling and grassing. The terms under which the leases are granted, however, are an obstacle, as a twenty-one years' lease is not bu&l ciently long to induce capitalists to make the improvements necessary to the occupution of bush lands. It is understood that the Reserves Boar.l are at present endeavouring to have its bush land brought under tho perpetual leasing system. But apart from questions of increasing the facilities for occupying Taranaki lands, it cannot but be a hopeful sign that so many worthy and successful settlers from tho other parts o£ the colony are taking up, and seeking to take up, properties in the district. Tho remains of the late Archbishop Vaughan are still unburied, pending tho action of tho Roman Catholic Church authorities in Sydney. Tho.famjly are reported to be exceedingly indignant Unit the lato archbishop left tho whole of his fortune to his church. It has peon alleged that Cardinal Moran received £3000 that had been subscribed for the arch bishop previously to his departure from Sydney. The whole affair has occasioned much scandal. In reference to tho above statement, Cardinal Moran says there is some misunderstanding between tho committee in Sydney and tho Vaughan- family ac < o the final disposition of the remains. The committee wired home that they were anxious to have the body placed in St. Mary's Cathedral, but, receiving no reply, they imagined that their request had been refused. Evidently, the family are annoyed. The soreness has arisen owing to the nonreceipt of the cablegram. With regard to tho other portion of tho rumor, Cardinal Moran says ho has never received any of the money received for the lato archbishop, and is wholly unconnected with the matter referred to in the cablegram. Wo notice that tho Napier Telegraph seems tq be greatly exercised because "under the headjng of 'The Juno Cqmpany,' the Waipaioa Mail reprints a notice of its issue o\i the 18th January on the arrival of the Company in Napier, without a 1 word of acknowledgment;" and yet tho same newspaper, only a short time since, stole a leading articlo from the Wellington Press, and used it us its owu, under the leader heading without acknowledging where it was obtained from. It is thus wo find it every day; the greater the culprit, the more noise ho makes when his own goods — or lather the goods he, perhaps, has purloined from others — uro touched. The lumber operators of Maine, with one or two exceptions, have agreed to employ no man in the woods during the coming winter, unless he has recently boon vaccinated. ' ;According ,to the latent official statement publishod by tho authorities of Russia, there are in that country not less than fourteen thousand square miles of oil-producing jiands. Spurious honey (clarified treacle and simple syrup) is largely sold in England. A small piece of honeycomb, from which the honey has been extracted, is placed in the centre of each glass jar. Tho Canadian Province of Ontario is following the example of Now York in making the Canadian side «f Niagara Falls free. The French Cabinet has decided, to oppose an increase of duties on cattle and corn, as the imports have already dwindled to v low figure. A majority of tho meiui b?ra of tho Chamber of Deputies favour prohibiting the purchase of Government supplies in other countries.