WEDNESDAY, May 22nd. The Speaker took the chair at seven o'clock. -~'.':. ~ . . PKXfTIOy. I MrHAUGHTON presented a petition from John Nugent Wood, Warden and Resident -Magistrate. The petition, which was received, prayed for the repayment by the Government of a certain sum of money with which ho had been sur~ cliarged, and represented that a stun which' had, at: the; same time, been surcharged to another omcer on the Goldfields had Been paid. ■■-.- -r. ■ ; ■.*■,.->-:; ; . , SlrHAYfcßkedtheGovernment, "if they aro iii possession of a petition, from eer ( tain, residents of" -Roxburgh-; if so, are ! they willing to Jay such petition on the table?" ■ - ; ■'■: ■■ .•■■■•■.;■.■ , v . = - ! The SECRETARY (Mr Duncan) vfiw tindex'stood io l*y the i>etition raianiid to on the table. : I)UNEBIN DISTftlCt SCHOOLS. Mr M'l2a>oE asked the ■Provincial i Solicitor, "Is it in accordance with the Education Ordinance that the throe, Dis trict Schools in Dunedin be under, the management ...of one Committee, and the fees "amalgamated for distribution T f The SOLICITOR, <Mr Haggltt), in an swer to the first part of the question, said tliatit was in accordance with the Educa tion Ordinance that the schools should be under one CJommitteo. Underthe Ordinance Dunedin could be declared one educational district, and there might be any number of schools in one disfciict Formeriy there wore two educational districts in Dunedini} but he found that or the 17th of October, 1862j the Education Board, re^ommencbiion of the School j Committees, formed Dunedin into one i I district imdeir oae Committee, and thai : I Committee, idth very slight changes, had held office ever since. If it were desired to alter thmarrangement, it was always in the power of the Education Board 'co. dp 80, Xuidor the 9th section of the Ordinance. "With regard to the last part of the <£ues ■ tion, ho (the Solicitor) had given an.
