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Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 123, 27 June 1868, Page 2

GOVERNMENT NOTICES. NOTICE. The following resolutions •were passed by the Education Board, at a Meeting, on Monday, June 22nd : 1. That in any Educational District, in which the Rates and School Fees authorised to be collected under the provisions of the Education Act are sufficient, the Education Board shall maintain a school or schools in such district. 2. That in any Educational District, in which the Rates and School Fees so authorised to be collected are not sufficient to maintain a school, the Education Board shall call a meeting of the householders of such district for the pin-poses of determining whether they will agree to maintain a school or schools, receiving from the Board the use of the school buildings in such district, and a share of the funds at the disposal of the Board, equal at least to the amount of the Household Rate paid within the said district; and any district so agreeing shall elect a Committee, who shall be at liberty to charge such School Fees as they may consider necessary, and to have the full management and control of the school, provided always that the Education given shall be of a purely secular character. In accordance with the terms of tho above resolutions, a MEETING of the HOUSEHOLDERS resident within the several Educational Districts, with the exception of Blenheim, is convened to be held at the SCHOOL HOUSES within each district, on Wednesday, the loth day of July next, at One o’clock p.m. By order of the Board of Education, Thomas Williams, Secretary. Blenheim, June 23rd, 9SGB. NOTICE. riTHE LEASE (14 years) of the Topi house Reserve of 20,000 acres, lately held hy Mr. John Jeffries, will be offered to public competition, at the Survey Office, Blenheim, on Wednesday, the 15th July, at 12 noon. James Balfour Wemtss, 1387 Provincial Secretary, i MAY ARRIVALS. Belgravia, Yd. i ; the London JOURNAL, Yol. 45. Roses and Holly, beautifully illustrated Eliza Cook’s, Covvper’s, and Byron's Poems Thomson’s Domestic Medicine un-ay’s Modern Domestic Cookery Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Garden English Pronouncing Dictionary Letter Writers, Music Preceptors Renan’s Life of Jesus (cheap edition) Lever's Lultiell of Arrau, ditto Claude du Val, B’hoys of New York Belle Brandon's Celebrated Songster Mercer’s Hymns, Small Testaments Colored Picture Gilt Books Children’s Friend, gift for the young Calico Primers, Spelling and Story Books Collier’s English History, &c., &c. Cheap Buff, Blue, and White Envelopes Excellent Meel Pens, Drawing Feneils Playing, Conversation, and Plain Cards Marking luk. Best Blotting Paper Acceptance Books, Customs Entries Photographic Albums (leaves leather bound) Books, Music, &c., procured to order. Commissions for Bookbinding executed promptly, and at reasonable charges. ANNOUNCEMENT. THE undersigned will issue next half year to each of his Subscribers for the English Newspapers and Magazines (whether received by monthly mail or in volumes as they appear), A Quarterly Photographic Extra, consisting of one or more good Photographs, on large mounts (so as to be suitable for binding or for framing), and enclosed in a neat wrapper. To each Subscriber whose half-yearly subscription (excluding postage) shall not exceed one guinea, the Quarterly Extra will contain one picture; not exceeding two guineas, two pictures. The photographs will include picturesque sce;.D nery, the portraits of notable persons, and -views of interesting objects connected with , the Province of Marlborough. WILLIAM COLLIE, Stationer and Dealer in Fancy Goods, Market Place, Blenheim.