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Western Star, Issue 174, 6 January 1877, Page 3

EDUCATION MEETINGS. iHE STATUTORY ANNUAL MEETINGS of the Owners and Occupiers of Land and Householders in each Education District will be held in the Schoolhouse thereof upon MONDAY, the Bth day of JANUARY, 1877. at half-past 7 o'clock p.m., to elect a School Committee, and for the other business specified by Ordinance. JOHN HISLOP, Secretary. PUBLIC NOTICE. |T\N and after January Ist, 1877, the undersigned will run a COACH at REDUCED FARES between RIVERTON and OTAUTAU, on the following days : Leaves Riverton on Mondays at 2 o'clock, returning on Thursdays at 12 o'clock. Leaves Riverton on Friday at 8, returning same day at 5. Fares—Single, ss; Return, 7s 6d. JOHN CALLAGHAN, Mail Contractor. N.B. —A.ll parcels will be taken care of and forwarded with dispatch at moderate charges. AT COLLINS'S "ARRET GARDEN Riverton, 100,000 good SEASONABLE PLANTS For Sale. Families waited upon with all kinds of Fresh Garden Produce. Terms always reasonable. TENDERS FOR DITCHING-. TENDERS will be received by the undersigned up till noon on the 15th of January for 100 CHAINS (more or less) of DITCHING at Eastbourne, Flint's Bush. Specifications can be seen at Messrs Martin, Maitland and Co.'s, Invercargill; Whitt ngliam, Bros, and Instone's Riverton ; and at the farm, Flint's Bush. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. F. FIELDING, Flint's Bush.

Writing of New Zealand in a recent issue, the Melbourne Argus remarks that the best statesmanship in this Colony has directed its efforts to transform it—in the language of comparative anatomy—from an invertebrate to a vertebrate organism. This is being accomplished socially, commercially, and geographically, by a railway system, which, when completed, will run like a backbone from Auckland to Wellington in the Northern Island, and frem Nelson to Invercargill in the Middle Island.