CARLYLE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 9344, 24 February 1881, Page 2

CARLYLE.

♦ [from our own correspondent!] Carlyle, Feb. 19. Since writing to you little of importance has transpired excepting perhaps the election last Monday of H. S. Peacock to the Harbour Board. The seats for the other ridings were uncontested, and there was in Carlyle very little interest taken in the election. The school additions will shortly be completed, and it is to be hoped that the Committee will carry out with energy its resolution about the compulsory clauses of the Act, as there are 60me veiy sad cases of neglected aud ignorant children in town. I understand that as soon as the .work of building is completed the parents sinning in the above manner will be called upon to pay the usual fine or send their children with regularity. It is noticeable that the children attending the Board's schools here ai'e nearly all very young. I hope to see some notice taken by the local Committee of this fact. The liquidator of the Town Hall Company, Mr H. F. Christie, has tendered his resignation of that office, and I understand another appointment will be made at once. Plans have been prepared and tenders called for a new Wesleyan parsonage, to cost £350. The old site has been disposed of for £140. The Permanent Building Society is doing a very profitable business, and has more applications for advances than they are at present able to satisfy. Investors still find Patea a good field for their spare cash. All the auctioneers doing business in this district are stirring themselves just now, and the public wm reap the benefit in the shape of greater facilities . Nothing like opposition. *