The committee considered the question of getting cards printed for entering the payments by pupils of stationery fees, and it was icsolved that' a supply of cards be proou el. Ac counts for £19 lGs lid were passe 1 for pay ment when funds are available. The secre tary intimated that about £30 were .e'quired to square accounts. The commiltce there after adjourned. The Frozen Meat Trapb. — M,r John Chambers, an old Hawked Bay settler now in England, writes a letter on t c frozen meat trade, which is published in the Herald. He has inspected various re£rfsr.er;ii>>rs, and obtained all information from iiiHiKigers of refrigerating companies. His laUer bears out all the information on the subject previously published in colonial papers. Hi> estimate of the capital required for local colonial companies is £10,000 at the outsile, which would enable the company to puiehase stock, ,-\s well as conduct freezing for stock-owners who shipped on their own account. Taller man's Company is prepared to supply means of transit. if 500 to 600 tons a month afe guaranteed, the meat to be frozen and de livered free on board in the coior.y. The freight to London, including gunrautce and all charges, would be about £18 per ion dead weight of me.it. Mr Chambers adds that he finds no prejudice existing against the meat ; but, on the contrary, both consumers and sslesmen express themselves anxious for constant lary;c supplies. A Panic on a Steamboat.— A steamer called the Plymouth Rock, on a trip from New York to Long Branch with some 1000 or 1100 passengers, when abaut 20 miles from her destination' burst a steam flue,- knocking open vthe doors- of the engine-room, from which immense volumes of ste.un escaped. A scene of terrific confusion and terror en sued, the passengers being madly panic stricken. In tot struggle for life-preservers, men were seen to seize them eyen from women. ' For about half itn hourthc'ic was a scene of dire .confusion in the upper deck cabin. The struggling mass wedged the doors and blocked them up, and to facilitate an exit windows were broken out by the officers of the boat, and the passengers passed through head first. Assoon as the panic bad somewhat subsided the band struck up, and this belpt-d to reassure the passengers and restore order. 