LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 11, 11 June 1885, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The qualifications of a teacher must be varied if he hopes to obtain an appointment In onr State schools. Acting under this idea, a recent applicant wrote as follows to the Education Board : ; — rl am quite conscious that mmy present habiliments, and thosa I am accimtotned to wear under present circumsfancea, I do not look like, or have the appearauce of a tcachtjr, but I have got a proper " rig out " yet, and will use it when I get a situation. A few years ago, m Victoria I ÜBod to " sport a fashionablo suit of clothes, and a watch and gold watchchain from Hamburg, until the Melbourne thieves stolo thi'in from my residence," Evidently this applicant thought that one essential qualification for a teacher was to wear a fashionable suit. It is needless to say that hia application did not meet with success.

Instances of how not to do it are continually cropping np m connection with railway management. A week or two ago a settlor living not ten miles away from the left hank of the Wanganui River applied to the railway anthoritit.B for a prico for carrying some 430 lambs to Wa/erlc}', and was quoted n figures somewhat m exoosa of £10. Aa the price represented nearly a tithe of the value, the owner dropped his lips and inmtally resolved to give the railway best for the future. A drover would have taken the flook the whole distance for fifty shillings. As it was, the BetlliT with onn of his men . undertook the work and carried it out at an expenditure of thirty-firo shillings. Taking into account their own time, the total cost was not more than double that sum. — Chronicle.

A sample of American cherse m London recently analysed proved to contain neither milk nor any of its derivatives. Its chief irisrivdiiMiis Wi-iv hrd and ••o]-ou-iiig matter. It came from New York Stale,

At Mfssr.. Itii'i) Tison'a silo of stiH cattli; ;it Ourt ml a few days ago, "1 was kn-.i-k il ■!•'» .vm at tin: handsome guro of 525 guineas. The first day's suits iv.ili.s.-.| t.vcf£3>Jov). Tli'! diiiinii.iti of a S-ihool G mitnittoe m Ota>ri) xvrolo to thu lit). ml .taking " what pownr he had of compelling the members of coiuuiitt-e to koep order m tlio event of their obstructing busines", iisin-; very l..vi luugii ««{«, an-l calling each olh.M- 1..11-8." It haa been suggested that tho meetings should be held itlpivsence of the scholars. Although tlio Laud Aot only permits 100,000 acres to Im set apart for 'special scUlement purposes, the applications for such settlements already recoivrd would require 250,000 acros to meet them. Thu Minister of Lands, m the .Consolidate! Lands Bill which ' he intends to introduce, will ask Parliament to sanction a large execution of tho special settlement area. A supplement to the New Z -aland Gazette contains the Commission of tho Poaccj for the present year. The following are the now lusticM residing m thu ; Wellington Provincial District :— Messrs J. Ballance, Wangmiui ; A.. Barns, Wan- ! ii-MUil ; Alex. Gray, -Forum ; E. A.Ha*geii, Woodville ; b\ R. Jacksohj Wangauui ; Morton Jones, Wanganui ;■' J. V. Mcßolh, jun., VVaiiganui ; A. D. i Willis, Wiiugkiiui ; G. W. ■ Wrljcht, | F.Mllding-; J. Tliaiu, ; W. R. Wators, Wellington. The defirtiou given yesterday by the K<-dident Murfiat'rato with respect to railway crossings has formed a precedent that tho general public- will do well to note. Of course the law is very plain, and Captain P recce has no alternative but to atate that m future ■ a putiishmcnt will be inflicted on anyone who is caug'it crossing the railway line without first "stopping" to read the notice. What tho punishim-nt will lie, and whether it will merely consist of a ten pound line or imprisonment, or whether it will modi) transportation for life — this remains to be seen. All the , general public van do is to pull up at a d«-.id stop and gaze at the u.'ly signposts like idiots whenever tlUy approach the railway crossings ; and th-n thank \ the old woman through whoso iuspira- | t ion the law was created. — Waipuwa Mail Mr George Scott, the Mornington (Otago) poet, has published some "Lines touching child-beating." They are founded upon certain incidents which have occurred m Duneiin, and wither■ugly coudeinu tho the . too-common practice of treating children 'with cr«i«lty under the name of chastisement. The. lines are nicely printed on a -large card, upon which is also a photograph of a woman m the act of beating a little child m its cot with the butt end of a horsewhip. An exchange says : — The new Australian cruisers arc by iu> means bruisers. One shot at water-line would send any one of them to thu bottom. The To A roh a News 'states that " A sale of cattle, which had been for the second time impounded for trespassing on Mr Gould's farm, and were the proprly of Mr Geo. Given, wag held on Wednesday last at the public pound. The beasts some eight m number, only realised a little over £10, and the poundage and expenses amouin to several pounds more: We understand the p a idkeeper has sued Mr Given for the balance." ■ j

To all who are desirous of obtaining tfao best possible valrfe for their money m drapery and clothing, and who may be finding .a difficulty m deciding where td buy at the present time (m th.cface of Iso much conllictiug advertisements), Aye respectfully recommend them to procure patterns and prices for comparison from as many places as they may think fit, including Tiie Bon Mahche, they will then be able to decide f o V themselves where they can buy to' be^t 'advaiitage. \Ve hold a very heavy stock of new aud ckoice Winter drapery, every liiie of which has been bought to the best advantage, and is being sol*f Ut- prices which will compare advantageously with anything offered for sale under any circumstances w e respectfully solicit the inspection of all m want iof drapery aud clothing of every class. — C. M. ROSS &j-Co;, The Bon MarchC ; : ;.