SCHOOL STRIKE IN WELLINGTON

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2251, 12 October 1889, Page 3

SCHOOL STRIKE IN WELLINGTON

(Peii Fvjess Assoqiatiok.)

Wellington, October 12

In an art'de ou 'h- ?c o •! boy fr;k.j a' Home lha •New Z-.a'aad TiiSes " ■ *yt-^ " It doJB no* ta";e Joi;g fo.- c nvguv to Bprpad, and rllsia'.-oe 5s t;o 0b.4..0ift ti thj effiasey of ih«v c^ntsgim. It. this empire city of Wellington a few cities <«pn, Immediately nfier ih* pnblscß'.l(.n of i: -

first cable miKsaßO relating to tho action of school boys In Scotland, tbo eixtVi tt»r d*»d m one cf the largest of our city achr o s resolved upon v similar etrike. Tbo whole of the claea ebced » pet't on etati;;« that tbey objected to eocb long hutno icasorn as wero imposed upon them, and tbo boy* also passed a unsuimous retoiution thai on tl at night the? wer* determined to do no leesonsat iv mo. Tne patltim w*b plan? d upon thf> dctk of tho m hater, and ntxt mornlm; no h< ms lesa^Oß were p-f Rented with twn ozcppt'.ons. Them was treachery In tho camp, the very riDgleader of tLe strike, tbo boy who had the o.ost to ea.y m the matter, turned traitos, perhaps fn m fear of the consequenoe^, and quietly persuaded another weak-minded ninrtallo join b'm. and there two hod ibo übu-jI borne leEßons ready for tbo msdtot'a eye. The ringleader Imagined be had [rained great kudos for obedience to th« orders of the master, but he reasoned without his host, for ibe master publicly thrashed him m the presence of tho otter boye, not for doing bla le*aori», but for playing the »6'e Ota professional agitator, aod with thla wboleacrm remenstracco tbe school boy strike In Wellington for the preheat at all events Is ended."