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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 254, 12 December 1872, Page 5

General Government be requested to introduce a General Drainage Act next session. It was alao resolved, by 22 to 10. that in districts containing 25 children- between six and thirteen years it is expedient that educational districts be formed. All grants to denominational schools in such districts will their fore !»•» stopped, in order to force the people to establish educational districts. The Council has made considerable progress with the estimates. All the rotes for the establishment of colleges and training schools have been passed. LSOO was voted for a time ball at Lyttelton ; L 250 for the first manufacture of fire bricks, glazed pipes, > and tiles, to the value of L 200 0; and L 250 for the manufacture of Portland cement on the same conditions. Mr Knight's motion for the appropriation of L 20.000 for immigration was farther adjourned to Tuesday. The grain market is almost at a standstill. Four is firm at Ll4 ; and oats in good demand at 2s 4d. The long continued draught is damaging the crops. Cheese is at sd ; and butter plentiful at the same figure. Napier, December 7. _ Buckwell, the sailor belonging to the ship Ballarat, who drifted out to sea in the pilot boat, was found thirty miles up the coast. Arrived— Star of the South, s.s., from Auckland. ' . , Auckland, December 7. Captain* Armstrong's residence at Epsom was totally destroyed by fire. The buildings were insured for L4OO in the New Zealand officeArrived— Gladiator, from Liverpool. . Nelsox, December 7. The Caledonian- Society has awarded a medal to Mr Hamill, the chief mate, for his oonduct at the wreck of the City of Newcastle.