It may be that teachers ate mere delicately sensitive than their pupils and their pupils' parents,, but really we do not see why the lathes- of school masters should have the cloak of tecreay thrown over them. Teachers must re* member that the same progress of the age which rendered national schools a. necessity also put newspapers iiito the hands of babes and sucklings. To some minds a modern newspaper is the one horror of the nineteenth century ; but as it cannot be got rid of, it behoves teachers and others to walk circumspectly, lest their deeds be made known to all nvua-

TOE LAKE COUNTY PRESS

October 25. 1888

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, ISSN, At 2 p.m. AT THE HARP OF ERIN HOTEL, THE MAORI POINT V OLD-MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. Sale of Miiu;a<* Property.. MORGA N O ' MEA RA has received instructions freni the Directors of the Maori Point Gold mining Company, Limited, to Sell l>y Public Auction at the Harp of Erin Hotel. Queoiistown, on October 30th, at 2 o'clock, the whole of thenbove Mining Company's property consisting of— One Licensed Holding (26 acres), Water-rights, One 3 ft Turhen, 10-Head Battery, Amalgamat ing Barrel, One Concentrator, 550 feet 10 inch 16-giuige Pres sure Pipes. 1000 feet small Mining Rails, Offico {Hist x I2l't), Quicksilver, Trucks, Bellows, Anvil, Hammers, Retorts,. Lamps, Cold Scales, Buckets, Pishes, Gold Mould Tubs, Saws Picks, Shovels, Drills, Wheel barrows, Ropes, Ease. Castor Oil, Gratings, and Powder, etc. TERMS AT SALE. MORGAN O'MEARA, Auctioneer,. Queenstovn. Laks County G-azotto. f AKE COUNTY COUNCIL. I TENDERS will be received at the Lake County Offices. Q/uesnstswn, until Koon nf MONDAY, Fifth day of "Novem ber, ISS3, for the undcrnored works : Covtkact No. 34.—COMPLETION of SKIPPERS DRAY POAD from SADDLE to beginning of DAVIS'S ZTO ZAG CON TRACT. Length, 4 miles 11 chains or thereabouts. Plans and Specifications to bo seen at the County Offices, Queenstowu on and after 6th October, 188 S. Each Tender must be accompanied by a arked cheque or c» a h deposit for 5 per _jnt on its amount, addressed to the Chairman, and endorsed " Tender for Contract N;>. 34." The lowest or any Tender not w?sv& aarily accepted. J NO. BLACK, County Engineer. Qneenstown. 27th September, IS3S. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCE- L M ENT. 