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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1227, 23 March 1880, Page 2

Great delay Jiving taken place yesterday in the transmission from the North of our telegrams, we have made inquiries at the office to ascertain the cause of tjie &ela.y, which in some instances amounted to nearly ping Jiofjrs. "We learn that the delay is owing to pi) ifililP °f the department, but is attributable to the yvires north of Christchurch working very baldly, probably owing to the heavy floods reported fponj Blenheim. There was a blank sheet at the ft.esvjent Magistrate's Court to-day. The first portion of the Southern Volunteers passed through Oamaru to-day by the express train on their way to attend the review at Christchurch, and consisted of 30 menib- rs of the Dunedin Naval Brigade. On Thursday night a special train will leave Dunedi/i witty COO volunteers at half-past nine o'clock, and will go through to Christphjireb. Another special. jyiil Dlunedin at four o'clock on Friday njorn'mg jyith fil'Q men. It ?vill reach'Oamaru at ha.f-past tep, j and will stop to flljow the .Oaniaru contingent; to embark. A special meeting of the Gsfljq.ru School Committee was held last evening, tfjien there were present—Messrs. Fleming, Forrester, Bee, MijfccheJl. gjpith, and Stevenson. Mr. E. Hewatt wro£e, Resigning his position as second assistant in &e School. On the motion of Mr, Forrester, seconded by Mr. Bee, the resignation was .accepted, with an expression of the Committer's sati.sr with the manner in which Mr, Hev/aii }}aa conducted his class in the High School. It ,>vaa also resolved to request the Education Board to advertise for a successor to Mr. Hewat. On motion of. Mr. -Forrester, seconded by Mr. Si;?, it was resolved, " That the Secretary to Education Board be written to, stating that the arrange-' jnents {or -tl}e .water .supply a,t the North Scshpol, ma4e dmjhjj the last' alteration of

the building, have proved to be unsatisfactory, and that the Committee desires to suggest the advisability of the architect of the Board being asked to inspect the building a. view, to making some altera-.* .tion." On the motion of Mr. seconded by Mr. Bee, it was {decided to] recommend the' Board of -Educatidh fgj appoint Mrs. Graham matron of the' High? School. Some discussion took- place' wit® reference to the necessity of-"making an! alteration in the Education' Act in such i*: manner as will secure to eatih or Education District proper representation upon the Board, Mr. Forrester giving notice ,of_.motion upon the jubject. . ...The. Committee then rose. - Z'Z. ' '"The :hSad-quarters' companies"'of .volun-. "teers" with'the two bands "will parade this 'evening at eight "o'clock "at"-'the - VolunteerHall, for the purpose of having-drill irt battalion marching past, and "skirmishing, The local Vohinteers~are 'determined to cut a respectable figure, at Christchuch, and have been assiduously drilling for some time past. Last night No; 1 Company and the Citizen' Cadets, under the command of Acting-Major Sumpter, had an excellent drill in Thames-street,' The whole of the corps will proceed to Christchurcli on Friday morning. Mr. Edward A, Gifford has just_ completed a beautifully executed painting'in water colors of Otekaike the delightful se.at of the Hon. Robert Campbell. l lt differs from the former picture painted by the same artist, inasmuch as the house and surrounding grounds are, in this instance, brought out more prominently. Naturally, to secure this point, the general landscape has had to be curtailed ; but, not■witlastg.n4ing this disadvantage, the picture proclaims itself to be one of more than usual merit. The two together make a most pleasing and attractive pair. Mr. Mollison has been kind enough to afford sjoace in his window in tVaitaln fgr tfcg exhibition of the picture prior to itg removal to Otekaike, and anyone will be repaid for the trouble of taking a peep at his window any time during the next day or two. For some time past, by direction of the Victorian Education Department, lessons giyen lppnthly tf? the bpys in the upper classes of tife Echu'ca kfcatp school op the treatment to be followed in apparent death from drowning, but as the lessons afforded no opportunity of showing how drowning persons may be rescued, the boys wer.e. fytgly jnapcljed in military the river bank, sq t|jat thpy might receive instruction how act m such emergency. Upon qrrival at the nver side a boat was qbtDjineci. ■fpojfl which a lad, apparently by accident, fell overboard whefl- in ttje fiddle of the stream, and was immediately followed by a teacher, who succeeded in bringing him to the bank with some difficulty. The lad played his' part -well, and appeared to be totally unconscious, and no little amusement was fiiipsejJ fi bystander who, not aware of what was'going qi} tl}§ variqus methods for restoring animation were being gone through, in some concern suggested that a doctor should be sent for at.once.