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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1310, 18 June 1880, Page 2

The residents • of "Windsor have been successful in one of their efforts to secure to the district advantages to which its importance fully entitles it. "We allude to the establishment of a Post Office in the thriving little township, news of which reached us late last evening. This will undoubtedly prove a great boon to the whole of the inhabitants of the district, who have suffered considerable inconvenience in regard to communication with the outer world. "We trust the people of the district will be as successful in their efforts to secure the establishment of a public school. There are now a large number of children in the district, almost entirely shut out from participation in the blessings of a free education, and'as the residents of the district have shown their willingness to assist in providing funds, we feel sure that j the Education Board will grant their request I and establish a school at "Windsor.

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon npon the body of a male child found on Wednesday morning under a culvert near the town boundary. The jury returned a verdict that the child's body had been found dead, and that there was no evidence of the manner in which he had met his death; The members of the Oamaru Football Club will play a scratch match on the old cricket ground to-morrow afternoon, play commencing at 2.30. At'the Resident Magisteate's Court this morning a female. inebriate was cautioned and discharged. j A special meeting of the Waitaki Branch of the Otagd Educational Institute will be held to-morrow afternoon, at one o'clock, for the purpose of considering the of the Teachers' Pension Bill. All teachers are requested to attend.

We would remind our Pukeuri readers that a lecture entitled "Pluck, Probity, and Perseverance, illustrated in the lives of W. and R. Chambers," will be delivered in the Schoolhouse this evening. The lecture is to delivered under the auspices of the Good Templars and, admission is free.