The Daily Telegraph SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1881.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3118, 25 June 1881, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1881.

In the Legislative Council on Wednesday, Mr Waterhouse moved for a return ot the number of females trained at norma] schools who were not teachers, or engaged in other pursuits. He said the normal school system was moat unsatisfactory and expensive, while the Education Boards desired to increasi. , these schools. The Canterbury school cost in 1877 £2,992, while the feeu totalled £38. There were nine male* and thirty-one females there, so thn average cost of training wae £56 7s. They were there two years, so each teacher cost the country £112 14s. In Dunedin the cost of produjing a teachev was less> only £76. At tbe latter school there were sixteen males and forty-thren females. They were also trying to get a normal school for Auckland, and them was one in Wellington. The number of male students was small but tbe female* were excessively numerous. Hence he wished to know if all those trained be came teachers. He believed the majority, after so expensive a training, made engagements quite different to educational ones, being abundantly qualified to shed lustre on the domestic hearth. By thi> means the cost was increased, for every female who bad become a teacher the country had paid £200. Importation of the article required would be far cheaper than raising it by this form of protection. It was a most expensive part of the education scheme, which was itself extravagant and uneconomical. The spendeis of the money, however, had nothing to do with the raising of it, their only object being to get as much as they could tv speuu. The "Legislature should check the increase of these schools. "One well managed would be enough for the whole colony. The cost in rhe different schools was not dissimilar. In Canterbury there was a master at £€00, another at £400 ; another at £350, and a mistress at £250; while the Dunedin school, with far moro pupils, had only a master at £600 and rt mistress at £225. The information aekea for would be useful, and the Legislature , must insist on economy. Dr MenzirM said the Southland Education Board were not given enough to be extravagant with or even to provide proper accommodation. The Board was extremely economical. Col. Brett said the Christchurch Normal School was enough for a regiment of 1000 men. These normal schools to train teachers were a huge waste of money while there were over 100 men with University degrees here unable to get work. He believed there were over twenty rooms in the school unused. The system was excessively wasteful. The motion was carried.

Poverty Bay is getting impatient at the continued absence of its representative from his seat in Parliament. The Gisborne Herald says :—The conclusion to be arrived at by the absence of our representative from the session of Parliament at Wellington, is that we, as a district, independent of his exertions, will receive fair consideration at the hands of Ministers, or that his presence or absence from his duties does not materialy affect our interests. If we can get what is desired without any action on the part of Mr M'Donald it will be well. Hitherto he has been silent as to what his intentions are. Petitions and representations have been made to him by various bodies, and to every matter which has been urged, be has promised his support. But unfortunately he is not able at present to attend personally to them. We are certainly, at tbis time in the unenviable position of being unrepresented — practically disfranchised through the private duties and business of our member requiring his attendance elsewhere. These, he has placed before the cervices which are due to his constituents. Especially at the commencement of a session, is the presence of our representative required, and if he, through inability of whatsoever nature, is prevented from putting in an appearance, we are placed at the tender mercies of a Government, which may be disposed to do justice to our requirements, but which may not do so, and reasonably say, while withholding aught from v>3, " your representative has not informed us of the nature of your claims."

On Monday next the new railway timetable will come into force.

His Honor Mr Justice Gillies will sit in Chambers on Monday next at 10 a.m.

Wβ understand that an application for a new trial will at once be made by tlie plaintiffs in the case Bees and others v. Barker.

The tenders for articles required by the Napier Gas Company were opened yesterday, and the following were accepted:--For printing, &c, the tender of the Daily Telegbaph, and for coals the tender of the Heath Company, Greymouth, at 30s ior nuts.

To the Editor: Sir,—May I ask your correspondent "Trigon" to leave at your office for inspection a few days the school primers which talk of " the existence of man in Britain two hundred thousand years agone."—l am, &c, Qtns.— Napier, 25th June, 1881.

The Municipal Engineer is now engaged in the preparation of the contract-plans for the drainage of Tennyson-street, and Car-lyle-street from Dalton-street to the outlet. Tenders will probably be invited for these works m about a month's time. The o.bject is to finish the Jwhole of the drainage &s quickly as possible, in order to prooeed with the extension of the water works-

We beg to inform our country readers that on and after Monday next a first edition of the Daily Telegbaph will be published in time for the 3 o'clock train for all places along the railway line beyond Hastings. The second edition will be issued at four o'clock for the Meanee Taradale coach and the latest news will be found in the third edition for immediate distribution in the town.

..aa.^.^mCTja^s^^,...., ' Ullm „ ll<lß ,j_ u _r At the Eesident Magistrate's Oourt thie morning Andrew Anthony and. Jamea Smith were charged with drunkenness, and each fined 3s and costs; or 48 hours imprisbnmeht with hard labor. About twenty men have been employed for the last two months in the formation of a road through that portion of the suburban sections of Napier known as the Fitzgerald estate. The road when finished will be a great acquisition to the town. The sale of the property, we hear, will be shortly announced. ' ">* The Freemasons celebrated the festival of St. John by a ball at the Theatre Royal last night. The brethren of Scinde Lodge 419,1. 0., held, their usual monthly meeting at their hall, Tennyson-street, and afterwards met at the Theatre, where all the lodges in Hawke's Bay were well represented. The theatre had been most tastefully decorated -with fern and cabbage trees, and other graceful foliage, the effect of which was heightened by flowers, banners, and Masonic emblems. Dancing began at nine o'clock, and was kept up with spirit to the small hours. The orchestra was under the charge of Mr Garry, who had provided a capital band, the general , remark being that it was the best m.iisib .th,q,t had been danced to at any previous ball in the town. The supper was laid out on several small tables on the stage, the providore being Bro. Johnson, of Hastings-street, who surpassed all former efforts of the kind on this occasion.

Yesterday's sitting of the Supreme Court lasted over twelve hours. Mr Smith commenced his addrese to the jury on behalf of the defendant at 9 a.m., and continued for four hours and a half. Mr Bees then spokS on behalf of himself ahd } his co-trtieie'ejßJ wh"6 were plaintiffs In the case, for an hour and a half. The Judge followed with a long and careful summing up of the case, and the jury retired"to consider their verdict at about 5 p.m. After several times re. turning for instructions upon particular points, the jury were sent for soon after 10 o'clock, and His Honor asked if there was any probability of their coming to an agreement. He paid he was informed that one of the jurymen was suffering, and that it would be dangerous to his health to be locked up all night. If they were not likely to agree he wuld. discharge them. The foreniaii sAid that they were agreed excSpl on two points, and he thought they would agree upon those in a short time. His Honor then gave them another hour for further consideration, and at the end of that time they returned with the intimation that they weie still unable to agree upon the 11th and 20th issues, His Honor then said that, under these circumstances, he would discharge the jury, and thanked them for the very careful consideration they had given to the case. It would remain for either party to apply for a new trial on thpse two idsues. The Court then adjourned sine die.

The well-known racer Pinfire died oil Thursday morning last at Yaldhurst (Cah i terbury.) He wbs one of the gamest horses (says the Press) that ever looked through a bridle, and his loss will be a very serious one to the stable. Hβ was bred by Mr Redwood, but his most successful performances took place when trained by Mr R. Mason.

The British rough (saya the Saturday Review) is probably aotuated lees by a spirit of cruelty and" injustice than by a misguided sense of humor. An inoident .at r>. fire as renorted by,.a street loafer aptly illustrates £he feeling which seems to animate this class. "On the roof," said he to a friend, " was an old roan among the flames. ' Jump, you stoopid,'l cried; and jump he did, and broke his blessed neck. I never laughed so much in all my life !'* ;

Mrs Clara S. Poltz has been called to the Californian Bar. The Echo says:—" Mre Foltz is a widow, who has pursued her studies under difficulties that would have discouraged moist men, having no property to speak of, and five small children to provide for. Most of the time she has done her own housework, and has occasionally delivered lectures to eke out subsistence* She has now passed successfully through a severe examination. A •woman who can do all that for herselt is likely, we should say, to take good care of her clients."

A most daring attack is reported to have been recently made by a swarm of large rats on John Ailing, of Cape Egruont. Ailing, says a correspondent of the Taran&H News, lives in a whare not far from the Cape camp, and a short time ago complained of rats being very numerous about bis place, but not considering them dangerous he did not trouble himself, about them. About 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, however, he was awakened from a sound sleep by a dreadful sensation, and to hie horror found several monstrous rats busy disfiguring his face. He did all he could to frighten them away, but they clung to his bedding until a light was secured, when they made away like a pack of hounds. Alling's flesh wounds are not of a serious nature, his ears having been bitten the most. He intends to quit his present quarters as soon as possible.

Few people know (says a London correspondent that the Chiltern Hundreds, now , in the temporary possession of Mr Duncan M'Laren, of Fdinburgh, are not merely a constitutional fiction, but a practical fact. The Chillerns are a range of hills that stretch across the county Lord Beaconsfield used to represent, and pass not far from the little town which gives him his title. They were at one time overgrown with beech trees, and formed a famous cover for thieves, highwaymen, and marauders. Things soon got so bad that an officer was appointed by the Crown, to whose care was assigned the pacification of the Chiltern Hundreds. So much for the office as a practical fact; its constitutional history is almost modern. It is only a century and a quarter sinco hqn. members discovered this speedy method of retiring from the House. Mr Gladstone has the patronage, and the salary is 25b sterling.

A Kansas gentleman named M'Gowan has been eaten by rats while in a drunken stupor. Wβ never suspected rats of being fastidious in their diet, but "with this our last grain of respeot for the rodent tribe vanißheß. The animal that would eat a drunken Kansas colonel (of course he was a colonel) need never try to borrow a dollar in this office. At the same time the deceased M'Gowan's fate suggests many grave thoughts. For instance, what trouble there'll be about gathering up the M'Gowan fragments. You. bee, parts of poor Mao may be caught in a rat-trap, and then be eaten by a cat, who in turn may be converted into the best pork sausages, which may subsequently serve for the dinner of some lovely woman, into whose corporeal being some portion of the M'Gowan essence will necessarily be absorbed, after which— but the subject grows painfully mixed. "Let's talk about the weather."—Exchange. About thirty-six years ago, not rery long after the Disruption, several of the elders of an Established Church in a certain town not fifty miles from Glasgow, took occasion to repudiate some of the arguments of the minister thereof, which had been made uee of in a sermon preached by him. They came to loggerheads on the subject, and eventually two of the elders, who were represented as being almost as rich as Croesus, went over to the Free Church. A short time afterwards the minister whose congregation the worthy elders -had joined encountered his brother of the Establishment. The former proceeded to express his sorrow that so great and good man as they should have been compelled to secede from, the church of the latter. The clergyman of the parish, in a state of righteous indignation, abruptly checked the utterance of the F. 0. parson. " Sir," said he, in a voice of thunder, as he moved off, " you are quite welcome to the dust of my chariot wheels 1"

Tlie half yearly meeting of the Court Sir Charles Napier, A.0.F., will be held on Monday evening. Messrs Blythe and Co. have - wearing tweeds for boys' wear.

Mr James Lawrence hns for sale 930 acres of first-class agricultural land. The annual meeting of the ratepayers of the Herotaunga Highway District will be held on the Bth July. • ' Messrs Pried and. Innea' .first genuine ■tock-fcaking sale is now going oil. Mr W. Routledge will sell on Tuesday next 2000 wire posts. Mr T. K. Newton has for sale a number of freehold properties. A quoit handicap tournament will be played on Olive Square next Saturday. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column. DIVINE SERVICES TO-MORROW. 3y the Rev. E. Reignier, Mass will be celebrated at Olive at XI a.ni; By the Rev. C. Penney, at the tfree Methodist Church, Shakespeare-road, at 11 a.m., and by Mr Laws at 7 p.m. At St. John's Church at 8 a.m., holy communion ; at 11 a.m., morning prayer and sermon; at 7 p.m., evening prayer and sermon. At the ( temporary church, Waghorneetreet, Spit, at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Be Berdt Bo'yell, arid at 7 p.m. by the Bishop of Waiapti. By the Rev. R. S. Bunn, at Trinity Church, Clive Square, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. By the Rev. W. Nichol, at Havelock at 11 a.m., at Clive at 3.30 p.m., and at Hastings at 7 p.m, By the Eev. George E. Sass in the Lutheran Church at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. in the Scandinavian language; German service at 2 p.m. By Rev. F. H. Long, at St. Mary's, Waipukurali, at.ll a.m. arid 7 p.m., and at Tjt&apautit 3 p.m 1 ; , , . I By Rev. R. Fraser, at Porangaliaii at; 11 a.m., Wallingford at 3.30 p.m., and Motuotaria at 7 p.m.

By Mr W. 0. Eobb, at Waipukurau at 11 a.m., Kaikora at 3 p.m., and Waipawa at T p.m. By Rev. E. Barnetfc, at Mr Ford's, Tarnwera (weather permitting), at 2 p.m., and at the Methodist Church Waipawa, at 7 p.m.