Manamatu Herald FRIDAY JANUARY 3, 1890. WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 3 January 1890, Page 2

Manamatu Herald FRIDAY JANUARY 3, 1890. WANGANUI EDUCATION BOARD.

1 We notice that our contemporary the Manawatu Times is making one more attempt to urge the parents in this school district to t»ke some little Interest in school matters, even to securing a bettor representation on the Board. It says "We trust | school committees throughout this district will bestir themselves in the ! endeavour to secure a district representative to fill the vacancy existing on the Wanganui Education Board through the retirement of one of the members. For a long time past we have been practically unrepresented and it is high time a change was effected. There aro doubtless some able gentlemen among ns, some of whom have had previous experience, who would be willing to become candidates in the interest of the district, and in the event of a local man being nominated we trust every local committee will givo him unqualified support." Wo are only too pleased to aid the movement as far as we can, and lif the committees would readily work together, a change might be offeetod, but we are strongly of tho opinion that it is impossible to urge them to take care of thoinselvos. Tho Botrd is not wanted and unfortunately the older members have so managed to insult the Cora • mittoes and to refuse them oven tho sma 1 po worse nf/nrod upon them by tho Act, that toseenre the election of ai'y o uumitte o vow devolves on the active energy of one or two of the inhabitants of each town. The parents li\e i" n stats of apathy as regards the doings of tho Board, and ■ jook upon t!io pr .s-nt system wUh (l SoVl of iM'lpluaHi'.P^ U> PX}>O*-t ftliv

thing better from it, We are quite prepared to s y that tho committee ava .pa tinlly nnswurable Joy tills by not oxorcisi njr their powers I roruo yoars ago, but the ring" that j oxiftts on the board enabios t ! ie re i tiring; liiwiiberS to iiiaivG siire of l'e lelection, It may seem curious to a parent's mind Avhy members are so a-ixious tf) retain their seats, when (the tray»;;; agl ft n oWAftfiei j ftre not \axge. If they desk-oil to know mor. vit ,AVon!cl ht> -vvt^p to ateltjefc a good and pushing' candidate from this distric, when enquiries could be rria'le tvs to the number for . the members of Ihe Poahi wHri Jind^jis c*V dau^tdrs, or sistfirs, or their cousins or aunts, in the employ of the Board, and also whether they have received any preferment in advance of tlnse te chers who are not so we'l represented at head 'quarters. We not say that anytliinp; uttfair has been done, hut the pesisfcent retention of a soat on tho Board, by some of the members, who have children in the Board's service find the dislike they evince to the publishing of their proceeding, as so much is done in Pom mittop, loads one to doire a chansfe in our representation if only to bo abl» to flpprociation a proper manner tho truly patriotic actions of those crimt'empn who have securod ro election from fho dale of tho first establishment of Ihe AVanganui Education Board. We liopo therefore soure good candidate will offer his services.

Messrs Dnnlc & Collins are advertipttt" for an engine driver. Peferenee will be given to one who is used to keeping strippers. ! Messrs Bradcock <v Gay provided a four horse coach for a pleasure party to the RanfrJ Ik-oi races and gave them every satisfaction with the travelun? they made, doing both journeys within four hours. Considering the heavy road.-, tho cattle Ir.ven u-.n-^t have been good Weave "lad. to notice that Messrs Baker it Co's Soninus stock showed up nt the Otnki Maori Knees on \cw Year's dav, in Mr Smith's h. <?. linker :■{ years old winning t.hp Flying Stnke.« against a field of seven horses. The Borough Council meets for basins on Monday night, at the Library buildings. The weather has not been suitable for holiday making. Xew Year's day opening with hea\y rain and thunderstorms. Towards noon it cleared, but about six in the t evening a heavy hail storm was experienced. The Tn ran 1.1 ranges had a capping of snow ! vestcrday morning, a sight not witnessed for many years, at tlm season. Intelligence received states that Emm Bey has suffered a severe relapse. Captain O'Shea \* petitioning for a divorc '. on the grounds of Mr C S. Pavnell's adultery with hi* wife. A bnnd of <ir"i«d whites utovmod Bm'n- ! vHI Pv.'-'.n, Soy.th C.rnllna, imd .soiz >d Mini «!sot r-uV.it.uPßi-o r.i'.ivdcrerH vh'j wore lying >v sft-)l. Despite the we.ithor many adventurous parties went down to the beach on the first, to picnic, and those who returned early, had a fine day. There is a complaint made about the difficulty of reaching the ocean beach from the river beach, owing to the presence of logs, -which make it impossible to travel except for about half an hour at low water. The beach is such an excellent outing, that the authorities should lose no time in opening tip the means of getting to it, and as private parties are unable to touch *he timber from fear of inenr/'-.g the penalties which may be enforced by the Marine department, we would suggest that the Mayor should address a letter to the Manawatu County Council and ask them to send a man to attend to the road. This is no new idea,; as the Council has before beared away, and though the proceeding is round-about for such a gmal! matter, yet the Council is the only body who can act. Wo hope that this will "be at once attended to. - ' In Paris it is proposed to produce a play the grand spectacle of which shall illustrate the " Anto-da-fe " or act of faith, a term which was apoljed by the Spanish to the ceremony with which the punishment of death was inflicted upon heretics under the Inquisition. By some accident in the rehearsal, the leading performer, Sarah Bernhardt nearly met with a real experience of the act, as when 1 mounted on the faggots, to be her presumably funeral pile, the "f ■>,'- --gots actually "got alight, and the actress fainted, and it was with great difficulty that she was rescued. Two of the scene shifters were badly burnt in extinguishing the flames., and ' one of them is dying. It ie dangerous even to play with edged tools. A Temuka man had an unpleasant experience recently. He was cutting flax on the riflo range, when a bull camo up behind him without being noticed and tossed him completely over its back. The Wp.nganui Heraid says that one of the applicants for the Mangawhero Eoad Board clerkship- sent in a testimonial to the effect that "■ Ilia character for morality, and honesty is above success ! Strange to say, it was signed, by a iirm of solicitor.-,-. The Woodville Examiner says that M>" Shannon's house in the Poliangina has been burned, and the lire has gone through Mr Hunt's bush. •T. L. Toole, the well-known comedian, and his company, sail in the Britania for Australia. A manifesto published by the Provisional Government of Brazil declares that the recent, mutiny was trivial in character, and the disturbers of the public peace were condingly punished. The Monarchy, it asserts is friendless, and will never be restored. The Government hopes to deliver the Republic unharmed into the hands 9l the National Assembly next November. The Herald says: — Among the visitors to Wanganui just now are several of those who left here to try their luck at the Mahakipawa diggings more than a year ago. From what we can learn the field is not " a duffer," but '' tucker " is about all that can be relied on. though some have struck it rich, but only after a twelve month's hard work. We have seen specimen 1 : i? -sou: 1 of the gold procured recently. T t t'viir lioavifw, and rather dirker in colrir than the Wost Coast specimens-. A good quantity of Kiiiknura wool whs j sold last, weak 'at Kaikouia, at very fair prices, to a foreijm purclnmer. j The Wanganui U<~ -ail -i ••<;:. — \r- HMi, i tin Wellington" Vrri.Ur 1 . mSn-i--. •■n'--. \n<A the lllitt tfyi a. th-> >i -r. ■■ l 'r' : - h ' ]\<. H n j>i;;'H !.o i!i' V '>■)!(«>' f:.'iiiot',il«i>i 4 , 1

Some practical joker, who has money to spent!, has been amusing himself by issu- . ing a Boulangist coinage in .some of the J i French 'provincial! towns. He has put into 1 oirciilfttlon some hundreds of tcii ceiitinv j pieces iv bronze, wif-h a voiy (me prof I ■ ! portrait of the General, .and t,luv .inscription j •' Knijiiiv. Frrtncais— Ernest 1.". It was I i easy to work off these spmiohe coins union" { the miscellaneous oi " coppers :> — imperial, iU'publiean, and Italian — which circulate in Prance; now collector* are snapping t &em vv£ fts curiosities, The oroharclist who raises fruit extensively for, market, can" afford to , build apartments sailed id Jiis tfeols; tidt itf'j fverargc fftnnei', who only seeks to have a liberal supply toi family use. must depend upon celhr or garret for storage. The proper conditions for roiardhig decay, are: An even, cool temp'erltW hi few torta* Move fveezni-,' poWt!; Bri# Weft fwW Wsn^lfnff the I fruit. Moisture in connection Midi heat always hastens tit-composition, but a moderate amount of the former in conjunction with a low temperature preserve-* the irmt plump and juicy, and perhaps retain* tile tiuvour. When the crop is spead out thinly on slatted shelves one nmy notice the premonitory symptoms lit ortce* attd Ve B move all s'utih vtiiliO«t delajr.- Handling the sound specimens is tiitis avoided^- alid as one rotten apple will sooli coiivey the corrupting influence to its neighbours, the supply of good fruit can be retained much longer by a weekly inspection. Wrapping each specimen of valuable varieties in soft paper unquestionably tends to preserve thorn and lvtain the beautiful tints, but it prevents one front examination of their condition as they approach maturity. It is reported that Fame's foal to Sow' nus has my tcriously disappeared. ; There seems to be no doubt about the arrival of the little stranger, but where it has got to no one can discover. A hill brother or sister to Dud* v will be a serious loss to Mr Lethbridge, and unless the mystery is cleared up says the Canterbury Times we shall look for a big ton/) in some hitck race three or four years htuce. iVfv Vero Shaw a delightful writer o^ dogs and other domestic pets, has reccvore from the publishers for compiling Luzon's " How I lost £250,000. in Tw (] Years." Our London correspondent to 1 us some time a»o that Mr Shaw had really written the book, and Mr Bevizon'a indig] nant contradiction mnst now go for noth ing. An extraordinary suicide by a KinninK" ham lady n -.inert Sampson, against who m divorce proceedings had \u:en instituted b y lißr husband, is reported from Lincoln. The lady, who has been on intimate terms, with a Lincoln gentleman, who shot himself dead, took away her life by thrusting the handle of a lady's hnnrt mirror down her throat, causing suffocation. The following advertisement from t\\ Morning Post will take a good deal o beating : — Will any rich person take - Gentleman and board him ? Of roo: family; aged 25, good lrusieinn ; thor oughly conversant with ail office work no objection to turn a jew ; lost h'^ money through dishonest trustees ; excellent writer. • Truth tells a funny story about Mr Fronde, who, when he was on his voynge to Australia, objected to the reading on Sundays of the collects for the Royal family aart for the bishops and clergy, and whenever he got hold of one of the ship's prayer books hf fovered thesp two collects with •niK-P st.nk'";. Th»i c -Won-* <.'in'sod« is not renordel by Mr Frcule in " Ooeuna." The, Earl of Ranfurly, who is now on his ■way to Now Zealand, is a man of thirtythree years of age. His full namo is John Mark Uchter Knox, his family seat Dungannon Park, Dungannon. He is a Tory. The Financial Reform Almanac supplies the following details of the Knox family : — His lordship appears to have had no pay for himself as yet, but a swarm of Knoxes are in every branch of State employ, sixty relatives and connections having held over ninety appointments, and drawn more than £900,000. One great uncle held the sinecure Weigh Mastership of Butter, from which, and the pension for its abolition, :.ie got over £60,000. Twelve of his Irish tenants lmd their rents reduced 23 per cent, by the Irish Lands Court. A new steeping mp.n has been discovered? He is a German, and lives in a little village of Minnestoa, but the case is so curious as to have excited the attention of medical men in England as elsewhere. For the greater part of the last twelve years Hermann Harms has been fast asleep. Twelve years ago he was attacked by fever md ague, and through four years he had long spells of sleep. Then he got better for a while, and managed to keep awake more or less for three years. His last bout dates from May 12, 1884. On that morning he got up, ate a hearty breakfast, went to bed, and, with bright intervals, slept straight off .for three years. Every night at 12 o'clock he woke, ate "a supper that was placed ready for him, and went off to sleep again. At fho end of tnree yea s he again partly revived, went out, and wall-el about, but at the end of a few months sleep overpowered him again, and at the date of latest advices he lmd been asleep over two years. He has not now even the measure of Jivelinos that resulted in his midnight waking for sapper. He has to be wakened at sauted intervals, when he eats a hearty meal and sleeps again. "It is the voic* of the sluggard, I hear him complain, • They have waked me too soon, I must nlumber again." News bus been received from the Chief Mita te. Tr.i, on the Island of Itawhiti, of the poisoning of a number of natives from eating honey. Two men and two women are Head, and several others araina dangerous condition. Mitn's wife and family are amongst those suffering from the effects. Mita is at present attending at wedding at. Otalci. His father. Ihaka Halcnenr 1 . it will be l-pmomherfd, died at Pi\rnoll from tinned meat poisoning some time ago. " A Barrister " has written a letter describing his wav of making t<>a. which the Hospital, a medical naper. declares to be one of the best possible. It i< as follows : — " Put the kettle on to boil : when the water absolutely boils fill two teanots, contniningno tea, with it in the boiline condition , let the two pots stand imtill they nre both thoroughly hot ; then fltnpty one of thorn, and vm* for «vr»ry pint of water the pot will hold a single teanpoonfnl of good t-ja. The barrister usea an Indi'nn mixture nt 3s (id per lb. Place the t«apot, filled with water and the requisite number of spoonfulla of tea. on n stove or hah for Exactly fivo minutes. It is then I snfticiently infused. The other teapot which has been heated by the boiling water. is now «nii)t.iVd, and the infused tea i<t all nomed out of pot No I into it, care being 'liken to keen t-ho l«av«« entirely sepn.ratft, Pnf No ?. which cnnt.-diT? the infnsed tea 'liinnn the Wyes. is now fit for use ; and I fn addition to home a per fee* brow. p*r',>etly hot, it his thfa advantage, it oan be Vpt .'hot, and allowed t--> Manrt for one hnnv. two hou:v. or oven Mir hour? without j ;-.noiling or bec-iminp any ftronjroi . fov *h» Jmnle ivason 'h?t all the leaves wf vc loft l^hind in the + ir«u pot." ThK hriiw ltri«w?snd( j^ !»"< woek i»i»vo