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Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 35, 5 April 1878, Page 2

Tho mcmboru of tbo Itoofton AmQtour Dratnntio Olub aro requoatod. to moot for rehearsal at Davwon'a Hall, this owning at 8,30 o'clock, Tho Inkprwan Company, Rniny, Gr.ook, will finish thoir orupbiug oithor to-day or to*xnor». row. who» ft, gpncral |cleaning up will. take Ijluao. Wo lenim that the Hopoful crunhing.m.pro* ceoding, most, satiafnatorily. Tho company will have a, olpaning up in, tUp course, of ft ipw. duy/J. Owing to- tho unfavorable ofcnto of tho qvoning tho mooting oallod on Woduesday cv.oning last to.oatablisha Rooftpn Horticultural Society was not ao, largoly attondod no WAsexpoofcod, and. it was thoroforo dooidod to ddfor'tho inistlatovy buainosd fora mooting to bo hold on JBYiday, opening nox,t Wo may Btato that, already a aullloiont numbor of gontlomou,to enable tho society, .to.ba.fornjo*' have consented join no toh&b ftfe tlto mooting to-) night the preliminary otop» may, bo tulton. It is tho intontion, wo bohovo, not to limit tho opornlionaof: tho nooioty to (lowor. oxhibitn, but ft'l Itinds of garden nnd farm voßOtublo praduotfl will alno bo admitted, for oompotk tion. All wbo. aro intorostod in tho inutijtor ftt»o req|JCßtcd, to attend bho mootinfj, of tonight. Tho formation and" Rravolling of Smithdtrcot had boon complotod, and will bo a groat boon to tho ro«idonto as affording ftonoos to tho.Bul|e,jyro.pdinnd]thp vicinity... As tho road hnn boon gravollod to a groatop dopth than porhaps nny othor in tho town it will bo a fehoroUßlurly permanent work. Tho contrnotor, Mr M'Guiro dosorvon groat oroclit for tho niannor in whiqh Uo Itys carried ou(, hip..oon« trnat-. Mobbm Cfvavos and Floming havo completed tho purchase of Mr Pirio'fl cxtonnivo, drapery, budinean, oornoi' of Manner and Cuba-strootfl, Wellington, «ndi .purpose at, tho. curliest diifto cloning tliety banchos on tho W,oot Oouflti and at Epolton, An urtiolo, .sqavooly, bigger than, an', ordinary clay, pipo, which will not a oroos.oiU or bandflaw, open a preserve tin, draw, a o,ork, sharpen a knife, cut glannjand, ellghtly, modified, answer for a boo'jack, a crowbar, a, wnrming pan, and innumerable other purposes,. for; the flumof f^,,io,,it will bo admitted,. a. bargain. Ihoao articles appropriately termed "Xank NDtionn," aro now boing.sold in Rooftoii, and of them it may bo truly eaidi^nchoupohold Jo complete without' ono." They., aro on oalo. at M»«si'B TPavaylh a.\\& Maator's. It ia to, bo hoped that tho County author!*, tins w-ill losfli as, littlo time as ponniblo in bringing tho Dog.Nuisanco Act into operation in Hoofton,.fov tho vagrant mongroln preying ftbowt the Btroota ara a nuisanoo to overj?" body. Wo understand' that tho County, byedawn linvo been draftodi and only awflifc tho.oon-* filiation of thoOounoil to bo put into print. Somo bu/iinofls was dono yoatovflny in tlio market in Tftotolufl flharofl which havo advuncod considorably.in .price owing to recent i improvement in, tho nppearanoo of tho roof. Tho now post and telegraph olDcoa nro nenring completion, and will probably bo out of »,lio contruotom'i) hands in tlio oouroo of a. month or nix wfloks. Tho building, is a very, roomy one, but its outward anpoot i« anylhini* but impoflinfj. It will, Tkowover, no doubt prove n groat oonvonicuoo both to the offl'ciula of tho department nnd tho public* and fov Hi in wo will bo duly thankfuL Tho Ilirtvotiaoh-Politifloho Blatter says that nomo, oxcitomont bus boon produood; in Spain by a pi'opoiml which is said. to. havo. boon llitcly mado to tho Spanish Government- from Merlin. T-io propooal wii9 I hut "in tho event of Sp iin üß»i4in<{ Ooi'inany in a war agnin«t' Franco^ tlio • Spuiiiuh QoTemment eliould bo allowed full liberty of notion in, roiiurd to Portugal, and nl.to bo olForod the pi'onpcat of rcooVM'ing Oibrallar and conrjnorn ing Algiora." •As a rowurd tr> Oormany for horasoiataneo in procuvini,' \\\vm important uuguiOAtfttioP". oi lowitory, Spuin . wou]d givo

li. uiii«iiii.iiii»i» )»» __!___! „ ' '-TmHT-I!! up to tier tho Philippinfi 1.-ilrtndn, " which, together «Uh t.lio Dutch oolonie*, wov\\ form a vory donirablo. colonial poasoaoion." Tlio writer add* that, Franco in M.riv'ng to bring about Mm financial ruin, of Germany by koop • ing up. an onormoufi standing army, and rondormpj it noccwsary for G-ormany to follow licit* example Such a strain, on hor rcoonroos onn. lio borivu by woalthy Franco, but it must ovontually cripple G,onniuiy j, and tho writer oxproflflca his regret, that it waa not ono of fcho condition)) of peace in 1871 that tho peace establishment of tho ffronoli army ohould bo rcrhvoorl to such a nf.vongth aa not to impono on Germany any oxecsoive burdono for tho nuiintonnnco of an equal force. An nttompt is about to bo matlo to inclnoo tho Assombly i.n Now South Wnlon to intron du/jo a syfltom of compulsory education. Mr Gruonwood gavo notioo lhat ho would movo "Xlml, in tho opinion of thia ITauno, tho o&ißtii. infl nrovisipn for primary cduoation U. not adequate), for ', tho rcquinornonifcs. of tho public welfare, and that as early as possiblo inoasuyofl ohould bo introduced milking. p«o---v.iaion for tho compulsory attondanco. afc Stale 'Sohooln within a, ruiiiionabb) dictanoo of nil child inn, not phyinonlly or mentally incapacitated,, botvvcon tho agon of nix. and fiftoon, unloßS receiving miifcabTo iuHtvuction dsowhero,. or ablo to road and. writo, also for tlio abolition of foon for all suliJßfitfl. of inotruction inoludad in tho comnulnory standard, and for diaconlinuanoo n(tor duo r.otioo of nupporc from tho public (updo in aid of denominational aohoolfl,"