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Kumara Times, Issue 2057, 3 April 1883, Page 2

The Kumara State School is to be reopened to-morrow morning. The action of the local School Committee in not reopening the school on Monday last is severely criticised in the Argus and characterised as " uncalled-for and highhanded." "Even," says our contemporary, "if the Board was a little remiss in sending to the Kumara School Committee the subsequent notice as to the final decision of the Central Board regarding the teaching staff, it would have been no great hardship for the Head Master and pupil teachers to carry on the work of the school for a few days until further instructions were received. Nor have we the least doubt that the Head Master would have done so had not the splenetic mood of the Committee led them to interfere so improperly and injudiciously by ordering the School to be closed." But what can be said of the assistant teachei's, who have interpreted their notice to mean that their services were not required after the 30th March, when they were as plain as possible " after the 30th April?" Mr Smith, the Inspector, was up this morning, and has satisfied himself by seeing tlxe notices that they were positively dated as for the 30th April. Doubtless the Chairman of the local School Committee should have satisfied himself of the correctness of these notices before taking upon himself the responsibility of not opening the School at the appointed time after the holidays.

Cominunicaeion on the overland Port Darwin telegraph line is interrupted north of Port Augusta, since 5.30 p.m. yesterday. The special jurors summoned to attend the Supreme Court, Hokitika, in the case of Gibson and another v. Hewitt are informed that their attendance is not required till Thursday next, at 10 a. m.

A spofidl meeting of the Central Board of Educa as held at the offices of the Board at Greymouth, last evening, for considering the appointment of teachers amongst the sohools, and reconsidering the revised- salary list, in accordance with a motion proposed by Mr Taylor at last meeting. The following members were present:—Messrs Perkins (chair), Petrie, Nancarrow, Warner, Taylor, Grimmond, and Dr. Morice. Mr Rudkin was not present, owing %q his

having been summoned to attend the Supreme Court, Hokitika, as a special juror. The Board went at once into committee to deal with the questions for the consideration of which they were called together. A draft scale of salaries drawn up by Mr Petrie and another drawn by the Secretary and Inspector were laid before the meeting. The consideration of this question occupied the committee a couple of hours, the result being that the revised scale previously agreed to was altered and amended in the direction of removing certain discrepancies which had been discovered. The amended scale will be recommended to the Board for adoption at its next ordinary meeting. Mr Smith, the Inspector, was instructed to proceed to Kumara to ascertain the cause of the Kumara State School not being reopened, the Secretary having informed the Board that the notices he issued to the three assistant teachers of Kumara were that their services were not required "after the 30th April." The Bishop of Nelson, before leaving England, ordered stained glass windows for the churches at Picton and Greymouth. A young man named Joseph Sheriff is missing from Lake Takapuna district. He is somewhat erratic. Search parties are out. The Wonderful Wertheim Sewing Machine may be had upon Time Payment, easiest terms for any part of the country, no matter where you live. With perfect ease and simplicity they will make very fine double seams or fells, will kilt, braid, make their own braid and stitch it on at the same time, bind, cord, ruffle gather, sew on ribbons and trimmings, tuck, hem to any width, bind scallops, and fold dress material with raw edges, bind on the bias, embroider curtains or antimacassars, stitch heaviest tweeds or moleskins, muslin or calico. Every kind of family or factory sewing. The Wertheim machines wind their own bobbins without guidance as level as reels of cotton. They are guaranteed for ten years, but will last a a lifetime. Easy to learn, light in running, strong, handsome, and durable. Catalogues, samples of work, and particulars free by post from James Benton, sole gent, Kumara and Hokitika.—[Advt.]