TOWN EDITION. LATE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 15, 9 May 1876, Page 2

TOWN EDITION. LATE NEWS.

Ii i.3 notified by advertisement tLafc a con vorsazioiie i:i connection with St. Luke's Clin roll will be Iial; I in theVolauteyr Hall, tomorrow evcuitig at haif-pa'Jt; tcve:i o'elojk. Mr. Thornton, Hector of the Grammar School, ha 3 consented to giv-3'soms jjettsoaal recollections of India. There will be an exhibition of works of art and o&li'or interosfciag objects ; and the proceedings of the evening will be further diversified by the rendering of selections of ramie. Tho Lord Bishop of the Diocese will preside. We perceive, r;;i reference to the plan of seats for the De Murska series of concerts, that the tickets are going off very rapidly, there being but a small number left. Those who are desirous ox securing, their seats had

better do so at once, as the. demand-is like, to be far greater than can bo-supplied. A meeting of the members of the Waits Road Board was held this afternoon. P t sent: Messrs. Duncan {in the chair), Plej ing, Easton, Patterson, and J. T. Evas Clerk. The minutes of last meeting vg read and confirmed, and outward corn spondenee approved. ' The ratepayers;! Qaniaru-Siredt petitioned ' the' Board j metal the street - line from the 1113 road to the beach., ,lt was resold that the Clerk acknowledge to ill - . Covert receipt of the memorial, and inform him, 1 the benefit of the requisitionists, that t Board could not see its way to cari-y out'i work at present, but would subsidise the extent of one pound for every ti pounds raised in the locality for t! purpose of carrying out the works. ! was resolved that tenders be called [ clearing and reforming the footpath in la don. The following arrangement was mad for the election of members of the Boards W r . Young, lteturiiing Oilicer for Landed poll take place on 15th June at Mr. Pcatie'j Mr? Honour, for Weymouth, at School-hod on the 14th June ; llobert Stewart, far Paw kaie division, to take place at James Wilsoii 011 13th June. It was resolved that the eld write to Major Steward respecting land [ stock guaranteed at the Waitaki Bridge. M Clerk was instructed to call a meeting of Chairman of Head Boards to take into con] deration the necessity of some united actifJ for the purpose of getting the Government! close the ports against the importation] stock. Accounts tendered were passed ft payment, and the Board adjourned. i