LOCAL COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 228, 24 September 1872, Page 2

LOCAL COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION.

The following is the result of the elec,tion of two members of the Town Education Qommittee, that took place at the Provincial Hall to-day. Owing to a pressure of advertisements, we must delay, giving a fuller report of the proceedings until to-morrow. Proposer. Seconder. Candidate. Jones J. A very R. Burn 53 iParmenter Graham, sen. P. Cooke 37 Levestam H. Barnett J. Hooper 28 Elliott ■ " Pollock C.L. Maclean 17 D.Burns Percy B. Grant 3 D. Grant Barnes J. Henry 3 Measrs Barn and Cooke were declared elected, the former to serve until June s 1874, and the latter until June 1873. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. . For remainder of news see, fourth page.

T^BRB are in r Gjßrm^ r and 90,000 sewiDg inathines, 3000 steam"'^idughß,,ind^ ;, : ; . p letter^a^ r^oeiv^d^ iri fiSanrFranciscp, from England on the Ist of July which contained a telegram 'from , Melbourne, dated . 30th te&f."' in^lligence thus travelled around two thirdi of the globe in, a monlh. Mks <G^a»t.-t- If all : that is ; s^id ibfe tr"uv the daughter of President Granl, who.'; isi npwr; on ;a visit . , to : Europe; will shortly become the wife of; a young lord, the eldest ' son and heir of o Scottish earl, some of whose estates are in the Higblaods.—Correspondent of Dundee Adverr tiser, ■•-.;■■ , ■ _•- • .• - r.--- : "-■■- EAltHjpAiois, in AjmbbicA.— Within five years from, this (says . the , Nev>s> letter), there will be four' railroads across the Untied Statee from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Northen Pacific in rapidly progressing... The. Southern Pacific., is : making headway, and a new road from San Francisco is about to be undertaken. The exact route it shall follow is at present a subject of hot controversy. ;A; STQBt ! is told of ' a .,^soldier who was frozen in Siberia, His; last remark was "dEx-r-" Hei then frozen stiff as marble. In the summer of 1850 some physicians found him, after haying, lain froeen for 115 years.. They gradually thawed; him, and upon animation being restored, he concluded his sentence with; " ceedingly cold;*--.- - ■';■■■ •-: ;■; -.:"", An Illinois constable made a return on the back of a paper thus*.— ", I executed this subpeeny by trying to read it to John Mack, but he was driving cattle on horseback, and run faster than I could, and kept up such a hollerin* I don't know whether he heered or not. This is the best I could do, and don't know whether the subpeeny is served according to law or not^- ■•'■ .-_.-• ■■^■•■' '•_ ; /■' :- : '•;• " _ A Royal Advertising MEpiirJa:.— The King of Dahomey is reported to have changed .the: fashion of his, wearing; apf pare). He received the Italian Scientific Commission not long ago, seated on his throne, his; body profusely decorated with the blue, gold, and green labels which had been carefully peeled from the medicine bottles .brought;;, by Europeans to his country. If; his Majesty had any enterprising and business blood, in him, he would charge for the' exhibition of the labels as advertisements, and let out the space on his body for bill-sticking. WsiTiKte to Lady ißurdett Coiitts to thank her for the efforts she has made to prevent the destruction of little, birds, Colbhel loyd-Liodsay says :— "While driving throngh Normandy last week I was struck by the desolate appearance of many miles of road. - Alt; was green nod beautiful save the trees, which were, with scarcely an exception, covered tilth, black masses of caterpillars hanging in festoons from the boughs," from which every particle of leaf has been eaten. So far, midwinter reigned in Normandy in the month, of Judo, and this is greatly owing to the remarkable absence of little birds." Simplicity of Amebican Deceptions. < — Wa have not yet attained the simplicity' of the American receptions. M. Jules Claretie relates the following anecdote :— One of my friends told >me that: he. went; to one of President Lincoln's receptions; he gave the address to the' coachman^ telling him to drive to the White House. ' Oh, ' says the cottohmaoj ' you are going to call upon the president, Well, then, I will go- with- you. 'He left his box, entered the palace, bowed most respectfully to President Lincoln, and, re tonaed to his horses." ! Notice has just been issued by the PostofQce .in England that a telegraphic, message of twenty words can. be sent to Queensland > by Australia. , : for £10 , - and : that it will be forwarded to Port Darwin by cable, and thence to its destination, bjj horse express and. telegraphy; The wholff' distance whiidhjYuch;^ messag evwill, travel will be about 14,000 ' miles, and it .will reach its destination in about thirty hours.' It will go from l&sfy}ti? t^&fis&i&!- && :- -'■-o n: laad '^Xrie^'win^^er^e!?^ appear^C^AlwjmM Egypt, re-enter thasea at Saez, and again 'appeal •at PortfiDftrwiai^-', ';<)■ •.••■">••"'■• "; :'•'"' ■;■'