The S.M. Court sits on the 18th inst

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 752, 3 July 1894, Page 4

The S.M. Court sits on the 18th inst

‘Editor’s Night’ at the Mutual next Tuesday evening. Mr Lloyd notifies that he will visit Kaikoura next week.

Mr Slater, surveyor, may be expected here by the Wakatu on her return from South.

Mr If. Cooper, formerly licensee of the Culverdeu Hotel, died suddenly in Christchurch last week.

The County Clerk, by direction of the Council, notifies that proceedings will be taken against any person, or persons, who, after this date, leave timber, or other obstructions on the public roads in Kaikoura.

A meeting of members of the K.C.F.C. will be held in the Court House tomorrow evening. The Secretary has received a telegram from Mr Lecocq, of the Amuri Football Club, stating that a team will be through from Waiau on the 14tb inst.

A Picton school-girl was recently discovered hard at work digging a hole in the garden. On being asked what she was doing it for, she said her teacher had told her that day the earth turned round, and she was just digging to see if it did. She was going to leave that bole there till the morning, and then she’d soon find out whether it had shifted or not ! — Pio ton Press.

The Minister of Education is introducing a School Attendance Bill, by which it will be compulsory for every child between the age of seven and thirteen to attend some public school at least six times a week, provided the school is not more than two miles from the residence and that the parent has not a certificate from the Board for sickness, etc. Stringent regulations are provided for the prosecution of parents of truant children. The Bill also applies to Maori children and Native schools. (This, we take it, means that - child must attend three whole days before any exemption can be claimed.)

On Saturday two Christchurch ‘ commercials,' who purposed returning home by the Wakatu, via Wellington, missed pessage by her, and started Southward about midday in a ‘ splasher.’ They would, wc anticipate, have a rough time of it at the Whales’-back. In saying that the road there is impassable for wheeled traffic, it must be remembered that it is so only in the general acceptance of what a road should be for safe, expeditious travelling. Messrs G. E. Parsons and J. A. Parsons drove, and literally carried in places, a vehicle over the Whale’s-back road before the culverts were put in, and we, ourselves, rode over it at night the same week. So that it is not impossible to proceed South on wheels, but it is quite unsafe to do so in the ordinary way, as a coach should travel along a main line of road.