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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 485, 8 March 1881, Page 3

Wis learn from the Press that the funeral obsequies of the late Sir Cracroft Wilson, K.C.5.1.,C.8., took place on Saturday after noon. Shortly after two-o'clock the procession left Cashmere, and; in proof of how greatly the deceased gentleman was respected, it may be mentioned that the qavalcado was considerably over a mile in length. His Lordship the Primate, together with the Revs. H.C.M. Watson, C. Bowen, and A. Wright, met the coffin at the lych gato of Halswell churchyard, and it is needless to say tlio service was rendered in a most improsaive lnanne , . 9lfTiwtfa(MHPiito BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE. SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY. DAIRY FARM. SATURDAY, March 12,1881. MESSRS MATSON & CO. Have received instructions from the Mortgagee to sell by public auction at their Land and Estate Rooms, Cashel street, Christchurch, on SATURDAY, March 12, 1881, At 2 o'clock, all that parcel of land being Rural Section No. , containing 1 OA ACRES OF FINE AGRIIZIKJ CULTURAL LAND, situated at LITTLE AKALOA, Now in the possession of Mr J. W. Bennet, together with all the improve, ments thereon. For further particulars apply to Mr H. N. NALDER, solicitor, Lyttelton ; Or to H. MATSON & CO., Christchurch. THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF NORTH CANTERBURY. ELECTION OF COMMITTEES. r | HIE householders of the undermenJL tioned School Districts, that is to say, the districts of French Farm ' Okain's Bay having failed to elect Committees at the annual meeting held on January 24th, the Board, in pursuance of the powers in that behalf conferred by " The Education Act, 1877," Section 66, hereby directs that a public meeting of the householders in every such district be held on Monday, the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty one, at seven o'clock in the evening, for the election in each district of seven householders (Section 64) to form the Committee for such district for the year ending with the fourth Monday in January next. The place of meeting shall be the schoolhouse in each district. The Board further directs that the fir.t meeting of eacli School Committee be held in thn place appointed for the election, and iinrnwliatcly after the election upon the same evening. J- V. COLB-ORNE-VEEL, Secretary. Christchurch, March 4th, 1881.