TELEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 762, 20 September 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

CHRISTCfIUROti. September 10.

Mr Patterson, of the Normal School, has received an otter of the position of Head Master at the Nelson Grammar School, with a salary of L3OO a year. A letter was read to-day at the Board of Education, from the master of oue of the up-country schools, in which he protested against the school being iet by the committee for dancing purposes, and stigmatised that body as a set of " nincompoops." The letter was referred to the Committee. * ■ DUNEDIN. September 19. The Harbor Board to-day passed a resolution to the effect that it would be willing to limit the area proposed to be reclaimed, should the question of railway station sites be settled in accordance with the specifcsd plan. The Board's engineer reported that' satisfefitcry progress wa3 not being made with the dredging pontract, but the discussion of this matter was postponed till next meeting. News has been received by the Suez n;ail that the Colonial Investment Company o£ Sew Zealand, with a capital of half a million, has been sn.ccessf uly floated in Scotland. Mr T. Ritchie, of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, has been appointed general manager of the company in this colony.

AUCKLAND. Sep£ejnber 19. Another petition has been forwarded agaiust denominational education. Alexander French, schoolmaster at Morningside, was drowned while bathing.

The Taupiri coal miners have all gone out on strike for 2s 9d per ton, being Gd more than the present r^te,

LAWRENCE. September 18., Yesterday, while a man named Percy Greeves was driving a load of firewood from the Molyneux bush, the dray went over embankmeiit, carrying three horses -with it, and drowning them. ■ On. Monday morning, a stable belonging to William ■Gumming Dunkeld caught 'fire. The building was not insured.