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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1214, 8 March 1880, Page 2

To-day we issue the last jiunjber of our monthly supplement. It was started wjtf| I the idea of devoting a sheet to the interests of agriculture—under the auspices of the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association —which might eventually grow sufficiently strong to be able to run alone. Such a probability is only to be seen by prying into the fifturjß. Torfjay the supplement is nothing better than jvhpn it StarJet}The agriculturists of New Zealand have not yet realised the fact that a paper the space in "wb)Pb i 8 at their disposal for the advocacy of their v;gs73 gn agricultural and political subjects is one gf tfreir prosperous existence, The Agriculturist has been nothing more than a supplement to the Mail. Under the literary management of the Association's Secretary, who has singlehanded, and with but little co-operation from the settlers of this district, struggled IqF QVOV twelve months to make it worthy of the title it bore, Qi}F ftOTgtiJtural supplement has been, apd js, fitfilp rn°pe £haa a collation of farming news. To the public there appeared to be po authoritativeness about }t that OPttld not have beeu conferred by the Mail itself,—and ftVir belief is thatby givingthe same class of matter fresli in the Mail, instead of keeping it for a month for an agricultural supplement, we shall better please our subscribers and be of more real service to them, The North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association is deserving of praise for its readiness in joining in the experiment in the interests of agriculture ; but We feel that, whilst it has been an expensive one to us during a period of Commercial depression, it has not proved so valuable |q the Association as to cause any regret in its ranks at }tg might have beep otherwise, apd tlie chrysalis that is about to be laid aside as incapable of further development might have grown into a full-fledged agricultural journal. For this, alas, we must wait, and, in the meantime, fill the hiatus as well as we are able by devoting the Mail more than ever to the cause of agriculture. The usual monthly meeting of the Waitafci Jlaad Board will be held in the offices, Tyn.e.-strpet, tp-piorrow forenoon, at 11.30. The pi.eetipgs pf tjie St, Paul's Young Men's Association will b.e rpsnjiied this evening, in the .session room, at j.BQ. The adjourned meeting of householders to elect a new Committee for the Ngapara public school, was held on Saturday evening last, when there were eleven nominations, the result being that the following gentlemen were elected —Messrs. H, Ro.xburg, T. Reid, W. Cruickshanks, J. J, Atkinson, W. Gruar, J. Collie, and W. Jessep. The adjourned public meeting for the election of a School Committee was held at Teaneraki on Saturday evening, Mr. E. S. Lees in the chair. The report of the retiring Committee was read by the chairman, an 4 ft highly satisfactory one, the credit balance feeing pomething over LSO. The following Cjpmnjitfcee >ycr,e fhei} ejected py ballot .-—Messrs. Meek, Lees, Sinclair, EainfortJ), falconer, Burns, and Henderson. A vote of thanks to t]»e retiring Committee terminated the proceedings, A meeting was held a.t Teaneraki to consider the advisability of establishing a library at Teaneraki, when it was resolved that the matter should be gone on with at once, and a committee consisting of the Rev. Mr. Cameron, Messrs. Lees, Poison, Henderson, and Piper, was appointed to give effect to the resolution. Some few days ago, in pursuance of a general inspection of all articles of food, the police of pbtained samples of bread from all the local bakers, Ti??? e were sent to Dunedin for analysis by Professor B&ck, and we have very great pleasure in stating, and our readers will be glad to learn, that all the samples have been found pure, and that there was no instance of adulteration.