MARLBORUGH.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 45, 19 February 1864, Page 5

MARLBOR UGH.

[PROK OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Blenheim, Feb. 9th, 186.4. There appears to be no diminution in the amount of wool coming in to BleMieim from the different. stations in the Wairau, for sMpment to Nelson and Wellington, to wMch places about three hundred bales have been j sent during the last few weeks. j The electioris for members of the Education j Board lately ; came off, and with the exception of that for the Blenheim district, very quietly. ..■,•.. We had rather 7" a stormy meeting here a few weeks since ; one member was required, and there were two candidates. A. full report appears in the Press, from. wMch it is pretty evident that decency was, in one or two instances, outraged, 'intimately, after a. good deal of squabbling . and .; speechifying, a show of hands was taken,' when there appeared a majority for Mr,; Wratt, ; as also therejwas on a division (some thirty were present.) The ■ chairman took ■ down thirteen names' voting for that gentleman; in the midst of which Mr. Cottie (the other candidate) and his supporters left the room in Mgh dudgeon. Mr. . C. ; . has. since written .to the Press, clairuing the show of hands, whilst the chairman has notified to the superiritenderit the fact of .the other candidate's election. ' But I will not. further enlarge pn this subject. , I have shown an instance, by no. means unusual, of, the unseemly way public meetings are managed .here, contrasting strongly with Picton, wherei a. iriember was elected-, unanimously, andthe same in other of the Province, .in one of wMch the ; houser holders cared so little about having 7 a member that they .did, not meet /to elect oiie, but left other members to do duty at tlie board for their district. ' :':--:, The Press is agitating the resuscitation ofthe Wairau Library, long defunct. ;It appears there are about two hundred books at the school-house, with rib one to look after them, ' and anyone who. likes, going in : arid takirig* theni' out. >A board of riianagement is* strongly ' advocated. ; The writer ■ m the Press,_ Who^ seems determined to agitate questions -:f or, the: | braefitof 'the public, also suggests the forma-M ■ti«...pf a Debating Society, sometMng similar o the one at" lrivercargill. ; 'YV'"''. 1 -. V H The success atteridihg the; 'first trip of the; . steamer Sfcurt, under contract i with OhrJPro■nncial Government, is manifested by!* the fofiqwing paragraph in the Press :--r'y Captain %tiker reports having fulfilled specifically the . .terms of Ms contract by lying off ;the;yarious places on the coast at which he is supposed to call fbr tiie ahotted time, '4wAzi.; two 7 ; hours, but any good resMt,/for with fhe. "exception of the Kaikoura, he -had;.^no rommuhica-, tion whatever- with* any of the' residents', nor "id he obtain ari bunce of Ipadmg- until returning to the :Bbulder f Bank, } vidieri -le luckily found some 143 bales bf wool; VMch Prevented, his returiiirig emp^^arided." 7 ;. p [ At Picton the;^ wharf lias' 'been greatly improved." *** A hew J Custom hbus'ois in ; course of erection.' In fact in all parts of the !

' Province iinprbyempnt and progress are* jthe 1 ; ordor'of tho day^:' 7; : JiA A ; y-yL' iJ J-~yi\ ' & vei^ great-deßidevatum in Blenheim 13 j the erection of a town, clock. ; V The- ; Blenheim : School,, (Government) rer ;ppened a, few weeks ago with a large addition of scholars, arid, .under the present •■ master and" mistress (recently sji-pointed), bids fair to.p?6« 7 yide ah efficient edueatioh;*at a comparatively '<■ eniall cost, y Every householder * pays £1 1 per annum,; (whether he haa children or not), and ss. for byefy /child .exceeding ono. . 'Ourreoently. elected. Town met : $&w- weeks', .sinev when a chaiynvan! arid officers' : i were appoi-rited. : • Nothing- Unusual or impoß ■■ tantodciiwedi ? .-a yy::yy<'y;y.rAyy,. yyA J a- ;Wo hadjthe other day, a Mr.-W'puldpm, frpta : : Wellington, a , =kindj ; pf.) magic ; lantern, when our folks, espeßiallythe"' juveniles, attended in. A full fofce ; at the Eoyal Hotel' the first iiight, butthe.ainuaemerit wasnot -of stfch' anature as to indxtce any largo numbers to attend on subsequent evenings.:.; , ..; .... . Tho English mail arrived at Pioton, per Prince Alfred, on Wednesday last. ..;..'.- The Lord Bishop: of Nelson .lately held a Confii-matipn at Blenheim, when about .sis a-railed iHemselves of tile opportunity of being Confirmed^ ; --*.*.•-, • -.y. yyyyyy ry,-.-, [ Om' ; races -take place this day. week and following day.: The entries are not very- rm- •; merous, and the subscriptions. are on a rathpi* small scale. ' -'. Y. Another election for a member of Education Board 'for Blenheim district, takes place next Saturday; when;the r schoolmaster will be returning officer^ 7 'r-;': * ..-i -: The Board of vl7s|ij^fs, will soon come to a dead lock, .the Aet-"|being found to be unworkable.- ' ' jAyAyyA'^ Iclip several locals from the Marlborough Press of Gthinstant : — " At a'nieeting of the Building. Society, held at the court-house, Blenheim, on Wednesday evening last, the sum of £200 was x put up, and fetched 27i.per cent, premium." ,' "The first general ineeting of the mem-' ,ber 3of the Begatta Club took place at the George Hotel, Picton, on Tuesday evening last, there being but a very j small attendance present. Resolutions were : proposed to the effect that the amount of*| subscription should be made payable on th.^ 'y Ist of August, and also that the committee ;be; - instructed to draw up, a code of rules for thef management and guidance of the club ; suchj. '] rules tp be submitted to a general meeting 0^ " ; • the members for their adoption." ";i; ' : "The Picton wharf ' presented rather an ■■ v animated appearance on Friday evening 7 last, through the fact of there being * three steamers in Picton harbor at one time, viz., tlie. Bangatiri, which arrived early in the morrtiiig from Wellington, and subsequently the "Wonga from the same port and Southern Province. The Phoebe arrived about ten o'clock at night from the North"", and w^s obliged to anchor off until one of her smaller rivals had made room for her at the wharf." ;