The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1889. Educational Franchise

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 8, 4 July 1889, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1889. Educational Franchise

Major Steward, the member for Waimate, has introduced in the House a Bill intituled an Act to define and regulate the exercise of the Educational Franchise. Clause 2, referring to the definition of " householder " says : — " So much of section four of 'The Education Act, 1877" (hereinafter referred to as ' the said Act'), as defines the meaniag of the word ' householder' is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following is substituted, that is to say : ' Householder' meariß and includes every adult male or female person who (being the owner, lessee, or tenant) resides in any dwelling-house within the school district, and the parent or guardian or other person who is liable to maintain, or has the actual custody of, any child attending any State school situated within such district. Provided always that no householder who is a paid servant of the Education Department or of any Education Board or School Committee shall be eligible to be elected as a member of any School Committee. And provided further that, for the purposes of ' The Education Act, 1877,' 'The Education Act Amendment Act, 1885,' and this Act, the word ' dwelling-house' shall be deemed to mean a permanent structure, and shall sot include a tent or other temporary shelter." Clauses 3, 4. and 5 propose a radical change in the mode of electing school committees, the modus operandi being similar to that on which municipal elec» tions and other local bodies are conducted. They read : — '• Together with the notice issued •by the Education Board, appointing the time and place for holding the annual meetings of householders, and which said notice shall be published not later than the first Monday in April, the Board shall call upon householders to send in to the respective Chairmen of the several School Committees, in writing, on or before the third Mouday in April, the names of persons, being householders, nominated by them for election to serve upon the Committee for the year next ensuing. Such nominations shall be signed by the proposer and by the candidate, and shall be in th-> form set forth in the Schedule heru.< or to the effect thereof. The Chairman of every Committee shall cause a list of all candidates so nominated to be displayed upon the outer door of every scholhouse within the district under the control of such Committee, on the third Tuesday in A pril. When, upon the day appointed therefor, the annual election of Committee is proceeded with, the Chairman presiding at each meeting of householders shall read or cause to be read the list of persons nominated for election, and if seven householders and no more have been duly nominated such seven persons shall be declared duly elected. If three or more householders, but less than seven, shall have been so nominated they shall be declared duly elected, and shall proceed, at their first meeting as a Committee, to add to their additional number of householders as shall bring up the total number of the Committee to seven. If lees than three householders shall have been so nominated, not being a member of the outgoing Committee, then the name or names of such person or persons together with the names of the members of the outgoing Committee shall be submitted to ballot, and the seven persons receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared duly elected. If less than three householders, being a member or members of the outgoing Committee, shall have been so nominated, or if no nominations shall have been received, then in either case the outgoing Committee shall continue in office. If only two householders shall have been so nominated, and one of them only is a member of the outgoing Committee, then their names together with the names of the remaining members of outgoing Com mit tee shall be submitted to ballot, and the seven persons receiving the largest number of votes shall be declared duly elected. If more than seven nominations duly made as aforesaid shall have been received, then the names of the persona nominated shall be submitted to ballot, and the seven persons receiving the highest uumber of votes shall be declared duly elected." The last paraP' aph of clause 5 deals with the vexed qu jhtlon of cumulative votn^ as follows : — " Provided always that, notwithstanding anything in the said Act contained, at any ballot taken for the election of a School Committee, at any election held in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, ' The Education Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1885,' and this Act, every householder may exercise as many vottis as there are persons re^u red to be elected, or any less number of votes; but no householder shall be entitled to record more than one vote for any one candidate."

interest to and sub. scribeS(BWi^B found over leader in today's issue. ■ The recent action in the Wellington Supreme Court — S. Death v. Boyd and others — has been decided in favor of the latter. We are requested to announce that the Concert intended to be given at Taonui to-morrow (Friday) evening has been postponed on account of the death of Mr Oliver. A notice appears to-day intimating that the Skating Rink has changed hands, and Mr E, J. Coleman has been appointed manager. Owing to the visit of the Payne Family the Rink will be open on Friday week next instead of Thursday. At the annual meeting of the Union Insurance Company at Christchurch, the balance sheet showed an available balance of £29,082, which is to be dealt with as follows: — To payment of a dividend of 10 per cent., £10,000 ; carried forward, £9082. The mutton now landing in London will clear settlers 3d to 3M per lb. At this rate the sheep sent from Woodville some months ago should bring a clear profit of from about 10s a head for second class to over 20s a head for first class. — Examiner. The country members interested in in" creasing the margin of representation allowed to country members have decided to increase the number of their committee. The Premier has promised to take the debate on the second reading of the Representation Bill on Friday. At the Napier Park Club's meeting on Tuesday last, Pretender won the Winter Oats, with Kariri 2nd, and Rangipai 3rd, paying £11 10s and .£ll 2s dividends ; the Hurdle Race fell to Chemist, with Waterfall 2nd, and Jubilee 3rd, the dividends being £10 2s and £9 14s. The sinking of a well in the Square for the local Fire Brigade has been completed. The depth is 16 feet, and a copious supply of spring water was obtained at that depth. The well has been bricked throughout, and the top covered with a strong boxcovering. The job appears to have been well and substantially done. A meeting of members favourable to Bible - reading in schools was held last evening, there being present — Messrs Downie Stewart, Joyce Buxton, Hodgkmson, Tanner, and Fulton. It was deilled that a Bill authorising Biblereading in schools should be introduced, and tLat Mr Tanner should be asked to t;;ke charge of it. — N.Z. Times. The Wanganui County Council have passed a resolution that they oppose the Colonial Secretary's Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill, on the grounds that it placed the control with the Borough Council, in whose deliberations they had no say. Copies of the resolution are to be sent to the Colonial Secretary and the member for the district. A painful accident befel a little girl, about eight years of age, a daughter of Mr Wickham, yesterday morning. It appears she was playing near her brother, who was chopping wood, and by some means or other received a blow with the axe the latter was using on her right foot, which nearly severed three of her lo3s. The little sufferer was attended to by Dr Charlton. The Otago Central Railway Bill provides that the line shall be earned to Eweburn at a cost of £200,000. Of this amount, £15,000 will be provided out of the unallotted balance of £70,000 raised iiuclor the Loan Act of last session, and tho balance of the cost of construction will come for the rents of pastoral runs, at the rate of £15,000 a year, until the line to Eweburn is completed. j We learn from the Napier News that Mr S. Strachan, who has left the Clive 1 school to fulfil his engagement as assistant teacher to the Feilding State School, was presented by the head master with a purse of sovereigns in recognition of the manner in which he had carried out his duties, and as a mark of the esteem in which he was held by the children and their parents. Three ringing cheers by the scholars terminated the ceremony. The Property Assessment Act Amendment Bill provides that all machinery in actual use shall be exempt from the Pro-perty-Tax, and enables the Commissioner, upon receiving the sanction of the Colonial Treasurer to remit the whole or any part of the tax in cases of hardship. Power is also given to the Commissioner to remit taxation upon a building which has not been occupied for six months ; and provision is made for re-valuations within the triennial period upon the application of the Commissioner or £ie owner. A meeting of the Fire Brigade members was held last evening at Captain Bray's office. There was a good attendance. A committee, comprising Messrs B. Gosling, Saywell, Porthouse, and C. Bray, iunr., was appointed to pick the Brigade team to play a team of local footballers. It was decided that the match be a fancy dress football match, to take place on the Oval on Wednesday, 10th July. Previous to the match starting the new fire engina will be christened, on the Oval, by Mrs Captain Bray. Several new members were elected. Lieutenant Morey oftered as a special prize a medal for a one man competition in hose and engine pra tice. A successful wet practice was subsequently held, The engine gives every satisfaction, and with a full length of hose, and fully manned, will throw water te an altitude of 120 feet, and discharge lOOgals of water per minute. We regret to record the death of Mr Steven Oliver, proprietor of the Empire Hotel, Feilding, which too 1 .? place there yesterday evening shortly before seven o'clock. For some time past the deceased had been in a very declining state of health, and of late had been compelled to keep his bed. Everything that the skill of hia medical attendant, Dr Charlton, and kind nursinj? conld accomplish, were done for him, but without avail, as it was apparent that his constitution was entirely broken up. During his residence in Feilding Mr Oliver's unassuming and genial disposition had caused him to be respected hv all who knew him. He leaves a -wid >\v and several youi g hil Iren to mourn iiis loss. Mrs Oliver was one of the principal witnesses in the Feilding Post Ofl:ce burgla-y just !:eing hea:d in Wellington, and under me urgent circumstances her evidence was taken lown to be produced in writing, and .sue was permitted to leave for home, but the deceased had breathed his last about three hours before he/ arrival, Mn oh sympathy is felt for Mrs Oliver in her bete£pV.ein.ent.

says : — " That Gas escape, and is now alive, well, and in perfect safety, is we believe, beyond doubfc, as communications have been received from him. Sft'me day we may be in a possition to give a true account of how the escape was managed, but at present it is manifestly impossible that this could be done with, safety/ Mr Ballance has been chosen as the leader of the Opposition. In the absence of Sir Kobert Stout, (says the Napier Telegraph) there is no one on that side of the House who is so entitled to that position as the member for Wanganui, and the Government are to be congratulated on the fact that a gentleman who is so invariably courteous, and who is so well acquainted with the forms of the House, has been selected as the recognised leader of their opponents. The statement that at a recent inquest on a drowned man, a policeman, when asked by the Coroner if he had done anything to resuscitate the man, said : "Yes, I searched his pockets," was the occasion of a yery witty remark from one of pur Scots' settlers (says the Tuapeka Times) Having heard the anecdote read, he said : " That man must have been a Scotsman." " Why ?" interrogated the reader. "Be cause," replied the wit, " interfering with a dead Scotsman's pockets is the mist effectual way of bringing him to life." Frank Lincoln, the American Humourist, told an Adelaide reporter the following story he had heard there : — " An Irishman died here the other day. He had been a successful publican and a sinner, and as he was lying on his deathbed he called his two sons to his side, and said — 'Bhoys, oime doymg, and here's me direkshuns. I leave £200 to the widdy. There's £100 each for you and £00 for the Church of St. Bridget. After paying me depts there'l be 6s left. Buy a bottle of the ould stuff for the bhoys at the funeral.' One of the sons said. ' When shall we use the whißky, fathergoing out or coming back from the cemetry ?' And the old man died with these words—' Use in goiu' out, me bhoys, for I won't be wid you comin' back.' " Cobbe & Darragh have received their new stock of Yates' celebrated Garden and Flower Seeds. Customers are recommended to call early before the Seeds are picked.