LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 282, 29 December 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[per press agency.] <3. CHRISTCHURCH. December 28. Several Canterbury members, including Mr Rolleston and .Mr Montgomery, will address their constituents next month. The first section of large works for irrigating the Plain between the rivers Waimakariri and Sclwyn were opened yesterday. Railway communication between Christand Dunedin is to be comjdeted in three months. DUNEDIN. December 28. A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce waited on Mr Macandrew and Mr Larnach, for the purpose of urging the construction of the railway north and south of Dunedin, which should he vigorously prosecuted. The district engineer reported that the works were being pushed forward, and that the line to Christchurch would probably he completed in April. Ministers stated that no effort would be spared to make the lines to Invercargill and Christchurch ready for traffic at as early a date as possible.

NEW EDUCATION ACT. As the time is approaching when the various Local Committees of Education will require to take action in the election of an Education Board under the new Education Act, we propose to narrate, as closely as convenience permits, the proceedings which the Local Committees are called upon to take. The Education Board of each district, it is provided by the Act, is to consist of nine members, and these are to bo chosen under a novel mode of election —an experimental faney_franchise. It is based on a system of individual committee nomination, combined with a general power of selection by each committee, the culminative votes of all the committees of an education district deciding who shall form the Board. The mode of procedure is as follows : —During the month of January, each committee shall transmit to the Education Board of the district, the names of two persons qualified to be members of the Board (their written consent being first obtained), and the Board shall thereupon publicly notify the names of such persons, and in such notice shall also state the day on which the election of the Board shall bo held (which be on some day not later than 15th March), and shall also transmit to cadi committee a list of all those persons whose names have been so transmitted to the Board. From this list each committee shall send to the secretary of the Board a list in writing, setting forth the full names of not mors than nine persons whose names have thus been publicly notified . These lists, so sent from the committees shall be carefully preserved by the secretary, who shall, on the day fixed by the Board, proceed to ascertain what persons so nominated have the greatest number of votes, and the nine persons who have such greatest number shall be the members

of the Board. In the event of an equality - of votes, the existing Board, which remains v in office until the new one is appointed, 1* shall decide If any committee refuses or 1 neglects within the appointed time to transmit to the Board either of the lists of names above mentioned, which the law them to transmit, the Board shall proceed ■' to the election of members notwithstanding such refusal or neglect. Every election shall be conducted publicly by the Board, in such manner as it thinks fit, and shall also publicly notify, under the signature of the Chairman, what persons have been found elected, and such notification shall be final and conclusive for all purposes. Thisbriefly sets forth what-fhecommittee have tf> do. Power is given by the Act. to the Governor to delay the period 61r selection for a couple of months beyond J the dates specified in the Act, and it is thought probable that such postponement will take place. But meanwhile committees will see what course they have to follow when the time comes. —New Zealand Herald.

The Wairarapa Register says : —One of the heaviest ciips of wool that we have heard of has just been made by Mr Bannister, who took an average of no less than 12flbs of clean washed wool off his hoggets. Some time ago the Standard considered an average of 71bs taken off Mr J. Martin’s hoggets something unusual ; but we need hardly point to the difference. Mr Bannister is showing what careful breeding and good pasture can do, and we shall be surprised if there is not a rnn on his sheep for stud purposes. The sheep are Lincoln. The sire of these sheep look the Champion prize at the last stock show. Some of the dams were bred by Mr Bannister, and the others by Mr J. G. Rockel. The Wellington Argus says : —As contradictory reports have been published with regard to the movements of Ministers |

we have made enquiries into the matter, and lind that the Hon Mr Sheehan will leave for Auckland direct by the steamer Wellington. He will remain there for about a week, and will then proceed to Tauranga and Poverty Bay on official business. After leaving Poverty Bay his destination will be Napier, where he has some private affairs to look after. He will return to Wellington early in January. Sir George Grey will not accompany Mr Sheehan, as has been erroneously stated by a local evening' journal. He will, as wo stated some time ago, make Taranaki his first port of call after leaving Auckland.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —Sure Relief. —The weak and enervated suffer severely from nervous affections when storms or electric disturbances agitate the •atmosphere. Neuralgia, gouty pangs, and flying pains, always distressing to a delicate system, may be readily removed by rubbing this Ointment upon the affected part after it has been fomented with warm water. The Pills taken occasionally in doses prescribed by the instruction 1 -', keep the digestion in order, excite a fieo flow of healthy bile, and regenerate the impoverished blood with thme richer materials, which result from thoroughly assimilated food, and in the absence of which, the strongest must inevitably soon sink into feebleness, and the delicate find it difficult to maintain existence. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills are infallible remedies.

Strangers and country settlers coming to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is the best and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the ‘ district. R. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, offers special advantages that can bo met with nowhere else in the district. He keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of drapery goods, imported direct—and from the best colonial houses ; which, being bought on the most advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, enables him to offer goods of sterling quality at piices that cannot be improved on by any other bouse in New Zealand. Every article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation ; so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address — R. A. Adams ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town Hall, Carlyle.— advt.