CHRISTCHURCH.
Saturday. Mr A. C. Knight, Minister of Education, and Mr J. N. Tosswill, one of the strongest opponents of the new Education Bill, and both members for the Lincoln district in the Provincial Council, met their constituents, at, Pebbletpn las| night? Mr Knight's conduct in the* Education Bill was severely condemned, and a resolution was proposed, asking him to resign, but, at the request of Mr Tosswill, itjwas Iwithdrawn. Mr Tosswill's action in opposing the Education Bill was merely eulogised, and a vote of confidence in him unanimously carried. A requisition is to be got,up in the district asking Mr Knight to resign. ! , 4 ? The feeling against the new Education Bill is getting stronger erery day.
At a meeting of the Funeral Reform Association a resolution waspassed^npt to prescribe any set form of mourning^ but to get all the members to promise to discountenance the wearing of expensive mournings,,, and especially v .crape by females' 1; ''also' 'to encourage' the wearing of nothing more than a band of crape or cloth on the left arm for mourning by males. Ifc was also jesolved to purchase a horse and trap to let on hire for funerals at a cheap rate.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2040, 19 July 1875, Page 2
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200CHRISTCHURCH. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2040, 19 July 1875, Page 2
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