EDUCATION.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 9, 7 May 1842, Page 35

EDUCATION.

In consequence of a requisition addressed to Mr. Moore, of this settlement (who, it appears, had intended, when opportunity offered, to open a school), and signed by the parents of upwards of eighty children, expressing a desire for the immediate commencement of his labours, a paper has been drawn up, which has already many signatures,- and to which the signatures of all who are interested in the matter (and who is not?) are requested. We have not room to publish a Copy this week; but all who are anxious to join in subscribing towards the present establishment of primary schools and the eventual establishment of a more extended educational system, under the superintendence of a respectable committee, will find a copy of the paper alluded to at the office of this paper, where subscriptions will be received. The Company's agent has offered a Bite for the first school at a small or nominal rent.

The Government brig, Captain Richards, arrived here on Tuesday, having left Mr. Spain, the land claims commissioner, at Port Nicholson. The brig had passed the ship London, near the entrance to Port Nicholson, and the Clifford, with emigrants~for this settlement, at the entrance of the Gulf. The Clifford had on board cabin passengers for Port Nicholson.

We have received by post the Bay of Islands Observer, of the 17th cv March. It is almost wholly occupied with the Land Claims question. We are so overcrowded with matter this week that we have no room for extracts.

We beg to remind the members of the Committee for drawing up the Rules of the Benefit Society, that the General Cbmmiltes Meeting to revise the proceedings will be held on Monday evening next, at seven o'clock as usual. One or two important questions will be mooted, and it is hoped that there will be a full meeting.

On Monday evening last most of the teetotallers in this town met for the purpose of opening a Rechabite Tent. The chair was taken at half-past six o'clock ; and all present being of opinion that a Provident Society, composed of those only who totally abstain from all intoxicating drinks, and connected with similar societies in Great Britain, America, Van Diemen's Land, &c, was very desirable, it was unanimously decided that it should be connected with the Independent Order of Rechabiteß, and that a tent should at once be opened, to be called " The Nelson Reformer." The fifteen officers, which every tent requires, were then elected, and an evening fixed upon for the purpose of initiating such of its members as have not elsewhere been initiated in the secrets of the order.