The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 214, 10 September 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1877.

It will be seen by our cable news from Sydney that the steamer Lord Ashley, at one time so well known on the New Zealand coast, has beeu lost between Newcastle and Melbourne. It must be at least twelve years since the Ashley canje out to this colony and she was au old ship then. She was insured iv the New Zealand office for £70ii0.

The quarterly meeting of the Teachers' Association was held on Saturday afternoon, when the following resolutions were passed. The injustice complained of in the second resolution is so self-evident that it is a matter of surprise that it should have been left to^ the teachers to call attention to it: — 1. That it is the opiuion of this meeting that our representatives, Messrs Sharp and Curtis, should endeavor to have inserted in the Education Bill now before the House a clause to the following effect " That the services of teachers he rei.ognised by provision being made for their after years, according to their length of service." -2. That the system by which head teacher's salary is reduced as soon as he has increased his numbers so as to require oue or more assistants is manifestly unjust, and should be abolished.

With Tarquin's ravishing strides, stealthy but .swift, disease in the feeble organism. Had the constitution been fortified by seasonable iuvigoration the attack might have been warded off. Now, perhaps, medicinal succor may be unavailing. Feeble invalid, be warned in time. Thous ands perish who might have been preserved** by tonic treatment. Vitalze your enfeebled system and live. Know that there is health, streugth and cheerfulness in every bottle of Udoh'ho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic SCHNAPI'S.— Advt.