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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 734, 1 May 1894, Page 4

Inspector's Report on the Town School on the 3rd page. Mr Houl returned from Wellington last week, feeling much better for his visit to the Empire City. An interesting account of observations made by Mr A. McDonald, Amberley, during his recent trip over to Australia, will be found on page 6. A meeting of the Direceors of the Dairy Factory Company is to be held on Saturday, at 1 o’clock, at the Court House. Mr IT. Warner has gone North to inspect the block of land taken up by the Kaikoura party near to Pahiatua. Dr Fraser has changed his residence to quarters on Beach Road, North, at the corner of Hawthorne's Road.

The programme of the afternoon’s sport provided by the Hack Race Committee for the Queen’s Birthday will be found published in another column. Mr H. Lovell has had a very bad attack of influenza. It was of such an acute nature that Mrs Lovell was hastily recalled from here. Latest reports state that Kaikoura's erstwhile veteran mailman is now recovering, but that he is still very weak. Just over a month since a marriage ceremony was interrupted in Wellington through the young lady saying ‘No’ instead of ‘ Yes,’ at the altar. She speedily relented, and the marriage was celebrated next day. Comedy has given place to tragedy, the bridegroom (a schoolmaster named Edmonds) having committed suicide, by shooting himself. Borrowing a horse without the permission of the owner thereof has got many a man into very serious trouble. However, when ‘French leave’ is taken under pressure of great emergency, such as sometimes occurs when a Doctor is required in a hurry, no ordinary person objects if the borrower acknowledges wbat he has done, and treats the horse kindly. But to take a horse out of a paddock, and, figuratively at all events, ride the animal's tail off is just a little more than the generality of men can stand It is not, therefore, surprising to find that the Rev Mr Ensor is somewhat irate, or at least, considerably annoyed, to find that some presumptuous hum sinner entered his grounds a few nights since, took out his favorite horse, Totara, and rode the animal in such a manner that the poor brute —the dumb one, we mean, not the other—was given a very sore back, and then put back in the paddock without a word being said. The rev. gentleman is, we are satisfied, human, and he probably, therefore, for a time a least, felt disposed to deal out to the offender such punishment as he justly deserved. Now, doubtless,' the old Adam is not rampant, but it would be very unwise on the part of anyone to treat ‘ old Tote ' in a similar manner, and expect to escape the penalty of so doing—should Mr Ensor be able to brimj the person to book. The meaning of this ought to be plain enough to anyone who can read.