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Patea Mail, 30 April 1881, Page 3

Plans for new offices have been prepared for the Wanganui Borough Council. The Wanganui Borough Council have authorised a committee to purchase and plant trees during the season, one row to bo planted along the water table on the quay. Mr Mason, of Dunedin, has applied for a 10-veers lease of Lakes Wakatipu and Hayes, the object being to establish a big fish preserving industry in the interior—netting the large fish in the lakes and feezing them for export. On Wednesday evening a boat belonging to the Adamant, now discharging at New Plymouth, capsized in the surf, one of the men being" sometime under the boat in danger of his life, but was finally rescued. On Thursday morning a piece of iron, weighing about 7 cwt., was being slung over the vessel’s side, when, owing to not being properly secured, it struck a man named Parker, jambinghim between it and the ship’s side. Although he was much hurt, he has not been seriously injured by the accident. Oi’UXAK e School. —At a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board on Monday, a communication was received from Mr Coffey, offering to build a school at Opunake for the amount of subsidy (£4O) granted by the Board to the district. The Secretary stated that the Board had not granted £4O for building a school at Opunake, but had granted the subsidy for the teacher's salary, on the condition that the settlers of the district provided a suitable building. The offer of Mr Coffey was therefore declined. Thai Nino Juvenile Natives. —Visitors to Wanganui are recommended to visit Churton’s College, an institution intended by its benevolent founder to provide a means for the reclamation of the native race now fast disappearing through ignorance of civilised habits. The institution is under the management of Mr and Mrs Mcnzies, who are stated to be as enthusiastic in the desire to educate and reclaim the native as was the founder. Only eight native children at present attend the institution, though natives in all parts of the colony have been invited to send children. The local paper requests all who have influence with the natives to prevail upon them to scud their children to the school, and says, the founder and the trustees have a right to this cooperation, Their work is one of pure unselfish benevolence, and the result must be beneficial in the highest degree if they only have the opportunity of training the number of children for which the school affords accommodation.