WAIHI NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 6

WAIHI NEWS.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, Monday. _At the Police Conrt, a lad about 14 years oi age, charged under the Juvenile Oiieuuers Act with tiie theft of a pair oi spais was ordered to come up tor sentence waen called The executive officers of the Xorth Island Grand Lodge of Druids will meet in WaiHi on Aloiiuay. i v the evening the District £resmeat of No. 10 District, liro. H. Fiela (\ ICtoria Lodge, Waifcino), will be installed in ins omee by tiie Grand President, and tae i Grand Lodge officers will be entertained at a banquet tendered them by the officers and ' members o: Lodge No. 10. : At a meeting of tiie fccaool Committee the ' High School, forwarded a full report with ■ evidence attached, and expressed his opin- ' ion that, iv view of all the circumstances < and the evidence adduced, he had come to 1 the conclusion that the fire was caused by ( rats igniting matches which they had earned to their ussts. He consideied the school l cleaver a careful woman. Mr. S. H lie- ' Kay, headmaster of the East End School i reported that tha roll number was 263, and - the average attendance for the last fortnight was 223. A considerable number of the £ children who had gone away for their holl- ] days had not yet returned. Miss E. Dereuzr v has besu acting as third assistant since the re-opening of the school in ;place of Miss v Kogerson, resigned. Master S. W. Harper T p<. this school, was successful in passing t creditably at the recent examination for the t Junior National Scholarship. Mr. Hamper Z reported that all arrangements in connertion b svith the cadet rifle range had been practic- V illy completed. Mr Cathey introduced 1 the question of technical education, and sa"jested that the committee should render a*- a distance in the matter. Mr. Harper sa*d c :hat the committee appointed to further tne a movement should be called together again o md that some interest should be aroused, rhe general apathy shown in connection ° sith the matter was. most lamentable. The s. mportance of technical education for their y< ■hildren should be placed before the parents r b the proper lisht. A harvest festival was held in Wesley n Church yesterday, and proved a great sue- a ■ess. The choir, under Mr. A. Williams, c , endered appropriate music very efficiently. Master Coombe, who recently passed the rnnfor Ciril Service and solicitors" general c mowledge examination, has received an ap- i, x>intment in the Public Trust Office at T - iuckland. t The executive officers of the Xorth Island l< 3rand Lodge of Druids met for their s innual meeUng at "Waihi, and have been in t :onfererice all day. l At the Magistrate's Court to-day Mrs O. P. i> Jill applied for an order of separation on b; he grounds of alleged cruelty from her +1 rasband. O. P. Hill. Mr. Mueller appeared r or the petitioner, and Mr. Jackson for the l ' ! espondent. Evidence was giveu by Mrs R of Cambridge, with -whom the e< larties to the action had resided for some i, ionths. The Bench ordered respondent to ontribute 5/ per week for his wife's main- w enance, and 6/ per week for each of the B hildren. A