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Manawatu Herald, 14 July 1896, Page 2

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Besides the mere routine of acquir* ing the ordinary knowledge of school* / it is of immense advantage to the I

scholars if the teachers will endeavour to implant in their pupils " manners and art;," the external grace of character. There are many ways of doing this and without desiring to hold np our local school as a model in this respect it is pleasant to be able to state that the Head Master does a great deal in this direction and it is to be regretted that teachers in other parts fail to grasp the situation. A great writer has written " Oontact with others is also requisite to enable a man to know himself " ; and to secure the primary knowledge of this great truth, the Master of the Fox ton school has encouraged the boys to amuse themselves with healthy outdoor games and to test their proficiency with other districts. In the local school, therefore, we find that considerable attention is given to football, a game when rightly played has much to do in fashioning those principles of self-control which, to become a successful man, must be acquired early in life. It is said " self-control is at the root of all the virtues " ; so where a lad understands, in play even, that he must give way to the laws of a game, he is better fitted to admit, in after life, the necessity of yielding to .the law of the land. All this seems so clear that it' is surprising to find co much indifference shown in this class of training. But we come to the point of our contention which is that Without the spirit of rivalry, the desire io improve and excel, we take away from the practice of a ganie its chief interest, and thus, if other schools are disinclined to enter cordially into the spirit of the thing, the harder the task left to those who beliuve in and uphold the principle. A few weeks ago the Foxton lads journeyed to Palmerston and played a football match with a school team there, but were met in a very halfhearted fashion, hardly a boy meeting them at the railway station ; and then it was found that, the ground had not even been got ready, the goal posts being conspicuous by their absence. It is unnecessary to say that a team who were so little interested io the game were soundly beaten, unsatisfactory to all parties. The visiting team went for a game but met with a farce. It is not therefore to be wondered at that there was litftle cordiality, and the visitors were allowed to come and go without any hospitality being shown them. These things were passed over and a challenge was despatched, and acoepted, for a match at Fox ton. Our lads look upon the rights of hospitality as being more sacred than the Palmerstonians seem to do, and cheerfully, out of their own pocket-money, provided a very fair luncheon for the visiting team. Everything was ready, the whole team waited at the railway station to give the visitors a hearty welcome, and their disappointment can be imagined when the train drew up and in it there was not a boy from Palmerston. We may add that the Master received no letter of explanation or telegram. This unfortunately cannot be described, as manner i?, as, being, " a happy way of doing things, adorning even the smallest details of life, and contributing to render it, as a whole, agreeable and pleasant." There are 179,164 sheep in the Manawatu County. Linton, the famous cyclist, has ridden 31 miles in an hour. Id the Manawatn County there are' only 5 thorough-bred entires kept for stud purposes. Major-General fiobley has written and illustrated a book on "Moko, or Maori Tattooing." We acknowledge the receipt from the Registrar-General of the Statistics of the Colony for the year 1895. We are glad to learn that shortly there will be a good many contracts out for work on one of the big estate in. the neighbourhood. Recollect that to-night there is the children's oonoert at the Methodist church, to whioh all are invited. The prioes are no bar to attendance. In the Agricultural Statistics just laid before Parliament there is said to be 778 acres of wheat " sown or to be sown," in the Manawatu County. It has been pointed out by an English writer that it seems to European nations that England can produce a new fleet, the Flying Squadron, almost by a thought. Mr Saonders, M.H.R., says that the Premier did not give the women votes, on the contrary he said he did all he could to prevent them getting it, and if he had his will they would not have had it yet. Of the nineteen estates purohased under "The Land for Settlements Acts 1894" the rental shows a return on capital in purohase and roading and administration as 4.76 per cent. A warrant has been issued, says the Standard, for the arrest of a well-known guard on the Manawatn railway line on the charge of wife desertion. The accused is supposed to have mad* for. Sydney. The fact that the Manawatu County has provided £100 in their loan proposals for the Beach road should stimulate the Borough Council to put their portion in S roper order. Our Councillors will no oubt keep this matter steadily in view. The picture "Diana Bathing" by the painter Watteau in the year 1720 was sold by auction in Paris a couple of months ago and was bought for 107,000 francs by the Countess De Oasa Miranda, better known nnder her former name of Christine Nillson. Unfortunately it is not within the means of the Borough Council to procure gravel for our footpaths from Shannon, the freight alone running up to four shillings and elevenpence a yard. It costs over two shillings a yard to put it into the truck and then we have the cost of uuloadiag m 4 QMtisg from the stftliojb

Next week, it is rumoured, a most interesting wedding will take place in Foxton. ii The Levin Racing Club have commenced to lay off the course in the reserve near the lake, We understand that Mr Ingram, tee- I graph lineman, will soon be removed from Foxton. * The Crown jewels belonging to the Shah a of Persia are valued at a sum between 15 i and 50 millions. A large margin. B The annual meeting of the congregation r of All Saints' will not be held till near the i end of the month in order to seoure a good i moonlight night. ] We notice that Mr George Nye, teacher, i has had his certificate raised to E2 ; Miss 1 Ballantine has been raised to S3, Mr Nairn 1 to E4, and Miss A. Prendergast to E4. The Levin Express flays it ia rumoured that Mr Morrison, solicitor, Otaki, will be . requisitioned to declare himsejf as a can* ' didate for the Otaki suffrage at the ap- , proaohing election. . Mr Hamer advertises some new mcdi- \ cines. He has a sure cure for a headache, , and recommends one for coughs and colds. ( No doubt sufferers will bear these facts in ] mind. ' Four numbers of the Masterpiece Library, 1 issued by the Revieio oj Reviews office, y numbered no less than 1,700,000 copies t and in doing so used up over eighty tons of paper. ' In the last St. James's Budget is a pic- ' ture "Where there'a life there's hope," j by Frank Bramley, A.B.A. This gentleman is a brother to our one time townsman Mr ' W. Bramley. ' There was a large attendance at the , funeral of Mr H. Webb's daughter on , Sunday. The Rev. George Aitkens performed the service. Mr Jonson was the . undertaker. , The Commissioner of Crown Lands gives notice in an advertisement that the lease i of section 332. Mount Robinson, will be offered by auction at Palmerston on 4th August. If the Manawatu County are successful in carrying the loan they are proposing the completion of the metalling on the Foxton-Sanson road will be done, and thus the long-looked for work become an accomplished fact. TheEophone, an instrument by which the direction from which a sound proceeds can be determined with absolute accuracy in fog or darkness, has been perfected by the inventor, Mr Frank de la Torre, of Baltimore. During a disoussion on the Banking legislation the Premier is reported in Hansard as saying to Mr Pirani " the honorable member may thank his stars that he was asked to the caucus." The unitiated naturally ask, why ? A giant on exhibition in London stands Bft 2in high and weighs 8861 b. He is 22 years of age, his parents being of medium height. He wears a 23 Bhoe, a 14 glove, a 21in collar, and eats three times as much as an ordinary man. Mr Wylde, the aurveyor, arrived last night to survey the land at the Heads. He went down to the site this morning and will set out the eastern boundaries of the two reserves and then the Mayor will be able to point out the most Buitable site for the small sections. Chess has always been one of the recreations of members of the House of Commons. The smoking-room, says an English paper, is rarely without a couple of players, who find In the game a sure palliative of the intolerable boredom which an hour or two of parliamentary oratory usually induces. The following birth notice is to be found in The Examiner of April 14, 1822 :— ■ "Birth. Lately at North Elmhara, the wife of Tho?. Cushion, labourer, of three boys ; who with their mother, are ' likely to do well.' We hope the same may be said of the poor father under his additional burden." Judge Molesworth to a small insolvent at Me bourne lately : "If you had failed for a hundred thousand you probably would not have been asked a question. That is what happens every day. A man who fails for a large amount walk?, or rather swims, through the Court without any trouble whatever. The approaches to the bridge over the Aorangi outlet drain on the Ngawakarau road have been injured by the recent floods, says the Manawatu Times, and on one Bide at least it is considered unsafe to cross. The approach to the railway bridge is a'so undermined, and the Department is oonsideeing the advisability of adding a new span. The eUotion of the council for the Sheepbreeders' Association for the ensuing year resulted as follows ;— Messrs J. G. Wilson, B. Cobb, G. Wheeler, W. U. Buohanan, A. Matthews, J. Stuckey, A. MoHardie, J. H. Williams, S. T. Seddon, and J. Baker. Another member is to be eleoted to represent the Auckland district. Mr E. W. Dorset was unanimously reelected secretary. According to the report of the Registrar of Friendly Societies of the colony the total membership at the end of 1894, the date up to whioh statistics have been compiled, was 29,963, distributed over 389 lodges and central bodies. The total worth of suoh lodges is given at £651,519 19s lid, of whiqh amount £496,223 Is Id consists ol siok and funeral funds, and the balance of £551286 10s lOd belongs to the management fond. The risk of the introduction of the tick plague was discussed at the Sheepbreeders' Association, and the following resolution passed : — " That in view of the destructive plague of ticks at preient causing heavy loss in Australia, the North Island Council of the New Zealand Sheepbreelera* Assooia* tion desire to bring under the notice of the , Government the danger of allowing the . importation of hides from the neighbouring oolonies. The Standard reports that the Feilding ' and Foxton football teams played another beat of the Senior Cup matches on Saturday on the local ground, the game result* , ing in a win for Feilding by 15 points to nil. Neither team were represented by < their full strength. The game during the first spell was fairly even, but in the aeoond ( Feildiog were much too good, their passing being exceptionally good. Shannon, Jaok and Whisker ployed well for the winners, and Robinson (2) and Symons for Foxton. Lloyd, for Feilding, played a terribly offside game the whole afternoon. Mr Mitchell had sole charge of the game and gave j every satisfaction. Late on Saturday night or early on Sun- < day morning some person, evidently with i felonious intent, entered the dwelling of Mr J. Robertson on the Avenue Road, but as far as is known nothing of any consequenoe I haß been taken. Mr Robertson, whose j family ia away, left home on Saturday night about 11 o'clock, and did not return till the following evening, when he discovered that ( the back window had been prized open, Eart of the sash being broken off. The i arglar had evidently been through all the j rooms, as things were tossed about, and Mr Bobartson Bays the only thing be ha* mined w fw is some tobacco. <

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