BLACKSTONE HILL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 160, 29 March 1872, Page 3

BLACKSTONE HILL.

i hj? &€* Jit,feleLmotic«Ak.e.ver . taken aof f this; ■ -pjacfttbftt.it might almost;be;thoughtf v i teha'di been blotted-joutiof rthe Gold-: : .fieWs: altogether jiansd were 'At; not for. /the passinga>f!thefdoach and-carriers it ;vr wouhl r.be-: so? and ;: iujufmtoiitxu^v;do£iiventß;flow:on/:j .-; .We.'axetall suffering .-. from the; tlong- . v. niiiiinLf >uiatters ..almost tola .standstill;, a«;Lirain>here'iß-'aa ahxiouslydooked for t->aud(UK«y-ed toras it is in>Naseby,tinost 1:; otetheclaims being idle. ; :■<.->■ '•>>.. ?■...•]-..■ :tA: well attended public meeting was . hfeld'/on/JSaturday, the 23rd-instant,' in • -.Mr.*sTif Turner-V .billiard.: room } -.■ tor con* . sider the advisability and necessity of erecting a fcchooldlouse.;:A. most una-: iriraos s and praiseworthy feeling ;of unanimity of opinion was displayed on the omiHum,-each and every one show* r ing that hw: heart was in the work and the? interest- that he- took in-the object .. ofthe. meeting. »nl send-Syou a copy : of - the* resolutions;.-passed.^Mr.;Wilkes, liaving-been, unanimously voted to the.-. chair, -in a iew appropriate, and well: chosen opened the meeting. » was chosem to act as Secretary..: -~ A fter: a * few>speeehes and - remarks'on the ■•■ necessity of erectiii; the --.building; and te-great want by the . rising generation -(of .-whom there area* i good n^mier):o; a si-hool, Mr. Kobert Johnstone 1 proposed, arid; Mr.' Koehfbvt set onded, the • following resolution : ".That this meeting, seeing the, neees- 1 sity of a School House being l erected,; pledges itself it o support the;erer.tioniof .arhojise for the. -purposes .of educati«iiiand general purposed r V; Carried; unanimously.- —It. was next ;-pro|<osed by Mr. Duff, . seconded by: ;M>..Dillon, "'l'hat a Committee be formed/ composed of nine members*" which was; carried:—Uie following gentlemen were then elected as a Committee:. Messrs. Duff, Dillon, Johnstone, MLSEhail, Koehibrt, VV.: Holland, Wilkes, Cr. Tiirnbuli. and (secretary .-t— A vote -of 'thanks to the chair terminated J&e pro-. : ceedings.-*. \ ■■■•/.•<-.i : " '<■.-> •-* /vidv,. •■' -; This will- supply ..a- want that, has been- Ion li• felt this |da«!eV U aud>*all .3P«ht-miuded: persons will iwish it' every Hsuttcess.'i. Education of the young!is of paramoiliit-impor.taiu-e, andtiltago withr •its schools and .educational;! system stands first in 'the •• ißlaekstone lainsdormant

for J a long time,'is at;;last awakening,!, iiand- has-^with;its. > flarge; naijiinij: . re--frQurfes, 1 its extent :of- good*ugrivJalti«ral . land surveyed on thecißlack*tone. Hill; Run f nanilfifs pdsi-, i tt:e main I of prosperity within and ,-wiH ''.eventually! take its place as 'one of the most flourishing communities in Ofcasa.