Manchester School.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 103, 27 March 1884, Page 3

Manchester School.

From the Herald's account of the Wanganui Education Boatd meeting w 6l . extract, the following.:—" Manchester.—A letter was received fvom the late teacher, stating that an anonymous letter had appeared m the Manawatu Standard, which reflate -1 on himself and the couunittee.— Resolved that no notice be tukun of the matter." Why. did not the teaci.er forward to the Board the letter he himself sent to the Chairman, and his reply thereto. That would have opened the. Board's eyes somewhat. This misguided young man has got a lot to learn m his journey through life, and we four he, is beginnirig m the ; right way to make many troubles as he goes.

The Dunedin Licensed Victuallers' Association is to be reorgnnjzed, and it is in* tended to petition the next Parliament to do awuy with the present system of elective licensing benches,and he endorsement of the licenses for trivial offences. At PalmerstoD South the Court ordered the committal for pnrjarj of plaintiff m the case Thomas Flynn v. Jessie Brown, m which be sought, to recover £40» which he alleged had been taken from him bya 41 lambing down '' process. The Nativa Lands Court was opened to»dav, and adjourned till to-morrow. . Mr Snelson bad a capital s tie yesterday, there, being a " good attendance, and fair prices ruling, We remind our readers that the outward English mail via 'Frisco closes tomorrow evening at a quarter to e'ffht. The Wnnganui meeting did nothing m reference to the increased railway tariff. In fact there was no attendance, and no interest shewn m the. matter*

Dr Ourl will pay his usual weekly visit to Palmerston to-morrow, and 'can be consulted at Remington's Medical Hall, Eangitikei-street, during the afternoon. , Mr'V. Biudpn, the new School Inepect< if, ""will boinmttnce Bis inspectfon of the country- schdols next week, pc will probably take th« district south, iof Wangaaai firß,t. ' i Nothing has been teen of the bodies of the fishermen who were drowned at the Wanganui Heads. A 1 meeting has been held; at New Ply«. mouth for the purpose of sending Home an emigration agent. The Rev. Mr Loxford, Wesleyan Minister, who is leaving Hawera for Kaiapoi, has been preseuted with a gold watch. Com', a brewer, 'at toanaia, has been fined £20 for refrin^eroent of the Beer )^uty Act, having failed to deface a stamp on a cask of beer sent ooutt t :

An influential deputation waited on Mr Ormond yesterday, to present him With a requisition to sUnd for the representation 1 of Nnpicr at the next general el'ec- • tioh. ;: Mr Ormond expressed gratification at being asked 10 come forward, and said he, should not have re-eptered public lite unless he coujd represent a .oon«utuency "•.with j whose iaterasta hb own were bound. Mr Sinclair, dentist, was proceeded against m Wellington for not being legally qualified under i the Dentists' Act, Hnving lodged his diplomas with the Registrar General, the information was with* drawn. , '