The Foxton State School.

Manawatu Herald, 26 May 1904, Page 2

The Foxton State School.

On Saturday last the Government Inspector (Mr Perry), made an inspection of the above school, and has sent in his report to the Public Health Department. According to the report all the floors are worn through, the piles are rotten, as is the rest of the underwork of the building. The school is badly ventilated, in the orthodox sense, hut the draughty linings, some of them stuffed with rags and paper, permit the ingress of draughts of air which are more harmful than beneficial. Sanitation generally is bad, and, in the Inspector’s opinion, the school is overcrowded. It requires a thorough overhauling, or better still, the inspector says, a new building, the renovations that are necessary being hardly less expensive than a new building. Judging by the Inspector’s report a disgraceful state of affairs exists, and the sooner the Board takes action the bettor ior.aU concerned,

Further additions are made to the Himalangi stock sale. “ Tanner’s Ark,” which went ashore at Terawhiti recently, has been fitted up again, and is now ready for sea. “ If a white man kills a negro in the town of Lake Charles, Louisiana, he is fined 50 cents,” writes a recent visitor to that town. The State Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that a man must treat his mother-in-law with as much consideration as he would give to other human beings. The enterprise of the Japanese in making their first attack on Port Arthur so pleased many Americans that the Japs are frequently referred to as the “ Yankees of the East.” With regard to the libel action Captain beddon v. T. E. Taylor, M.H.R.. defendant declares that he can prove his allegations “ tip to the hilt,” so some very interesting developments may bf anticipated when the case goes to’trial, It is reported at Nelson that a certain farmer, who is a bachelor, had threatened to pop the question to “the first girl he caught picking blackberries on his farm, tie has just had to put up a new bai bed wire fence to kee[ them out. Clem Hill, one of Australia’s greatest cricketers, has just made the greatest catch of his life. He is about to be married to Miss Hart, granddaughter of a late M.L,C. of Tasmania, from whom she inherits a tidy fortune. Tin marriage is to take place just prior to the departure of the next Australian eleven and the tour is to be the honeymoon. There is an interesting anecdote in which a Caar and the great pianist, Lisxt, figured. The story goes that on this particular occasion the Czar of that day persisted in talking while Liszt was performing, whereupon the great artist stopped playing. Naturally this attracted the attention of the Ca.ir, Who inquired the Cause. Where Upon Liszt explained that when the Czar spoke all others should be silent. A more perfect rebuke could, perhaps, hardly be imagined.

Replying to a deputation of Canadian ladies who waited upon him to get him to introduce a bill regarding youthful cigarette smoking, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier, put the case tersely but very forcibly indeed. “Tn the good ladies who advocate this measure,” remarked Sir Wilfrid, “I say that the remedy is in their own hands. Good cooking and iloble home surroundings will do more to set the youth of the country on the right path than all statutory enactments that can be devised.” At a football match in Taranaki last Saturday an amusing and unusual incident occurred. Two of the players, right from (he start of the game, had attempted to “ scrag ” Pile another, and the referee, noticing the circumstance, promptly stopped the game, and going up to the players in question astmished everyone on the ground by telling them to have it out then and there, and he would act as umpire. And they did. The bout did not last long, and the game was recommenced, the combatants treating each other with mutual respect during the rem under of the play.

The meeting advertised to take place on Monday evening for the purpose of resuscitating the Foxton Brass Band should be well attended. The anival in Foxton of Mr J. H. McKennie, a conductor of other bands, will be a decided acquisition, and being a performer on the cornet of some ability, there is no reason why a first-class band for the town should not be organised. The support of the public is however necessary to put the band on a better footing, and Mr McKennie’s offer to lead the band tree of charge is to be commended. There are uniforms and instruments to start with, and we have no doubt that with the material available a band that will be a credit to the town will soon be a reality. During the hearing of (he jewellery robbery case at the Palmerston Police Court on Monday afternoon a witness, who had been serving in the bar of an hotel, said he did not take much notice of a man who was served with liquor. He could not say whether the man was drunk or sober, “ When you are in the bar serving liquor, you ought to take notice,” said Mr Thomson, S.M., “ otherwise if the man happened to be drunk, you might get an endorsement of the license.” Witness replied that he was busy at the time. Mr Thomson: “ That is no excuse. It is a very risky thing to do, and I advise you in the future to take particular notice of whom you are serving.” A Highfield settler claims to have solved the sock problem, the weak point in all bachelor establishments. He buys long stockings in place of the ordinary sock and when holes appear in the toe he simply cuts a piece off, ties up the open end and wears the stocking further down his leg. A hole in the heel is dealt with by turning the stocking so that an unbroken surface is brought under the foot, and the inventive settler can continue wearing bis pair of stockings until they are too short to reach to the top of his boots. His Honor, District Judge Ward, got off some witty remarks at Pahiatna. He said “ I was intormed, before accepting the appointment of Judge in this district, that there would be nothing to do here. But Pahiatua is indeed a lively place. Milk and mosquitoes appear to be the chief products of the country. The mosquitoes stimulate the people to litigation, and the milk enables the litigants to pay costs, and thus all things work together for good, and the legal profession are enabled to earn an honest living.” The Oamaru Mail says:—During a case in court concerning the ownership of a calf there was displayed by witnesses a good deal of unconscious humour. One witness, on being asked how he could identify the animal, said he knew it by its general expression. Counsel for plaintiff; “ What sort of expression would you call it ?” Witness: "Oh, just the same sort of expression as you have.” Then the court collapsed, and the witness joined in the general enjoyment when he discovered he had got off a clever jeu d’esprit,

It is well-known that the cruelties of the Russians towards the Jews have been such as to horrify the world and it is equally well-known and understood that the Jews have no love for f he Russians. This much by way of preface, now for the story. There is a Jewish gentleman in Hawera who fakes a keen and intelligent interest in 1 ra the world, reads considerably, and has opinions on most things. He also has a knack of emphatically expressing an opinion in the concisest torm imaginable. He was approached ’•ecently on the subject of the RussoJapanese War and in answer to a question gave a reply that for brevity w expressiveness would be hard to beat. The question was 11 Well, Mr pathies ?” Promptly came the reply, “ I hope the Japanese will swallow the Russiansand choke themselves.” This was a remarkably neat way of wishing ’he two nations might meet with the fate of the proverbial Kilkenny cats.— Exchange.

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