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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1483, 17 October 1885, Page 4

I The Town Btuid will play m the Square this evening. . \ At Napier the case^SaWJrins v. F.-.uK-nor was withdrawn by leave of the Court on the Application of the plaintiff. This wn&aninfoiinutiou a'/ainst a Borough Councillor. . , 1 ; Through having to go to press at an earlier hour to day, we are obliged to hold over -several letters to the editor and other matter. ' ; ■ — ; \ The subject, of discourse for; to-mor-row evening at^the Lyceum is " Thomas Ifayne, the ,Ref ormerJV .:•-.;■ i : . i Apiopoa'pt the intention of sojii^ of jour inerchautß to pet their poods cart ed from th« BUg.^lnvs^^ no. donht Mr Maxwell woiild like to wield tho power nosseßsedi^yjythe JVsjdenfcof the Bepiihlie of Vfnu-zneh. that potentate ban ten times the salaryof the President of the United States, and rules just e^nttly «s he • likos. ■=■ Ho haa r«celitly j bjiilt a State -Railway, and invested it ' Wjith an unheard-of mohopo'yj .for 1 he ' has m its interests prolnbifed;aJl «thpr vehicles of whatever kind fioin running oii the ordinary roads, and when a fishplate was, ncrore a *a»l f he made no investigation, bat simpty imprisoned <>ver>' inhabitint within half a mile of the district !— Southland Time*. . I A meetine of teachera will be held m Wangahni shortly to consider the following extract from Inspector Bindon's la^st report to the Board :—" I think a great deal might be done by the entab«lißhment of a Teachers' Library m Wangftini, m which works of reference, and \\\b best literature of the d«y would be • kept. The books could be Unt for a stated period, and could be franked to any school iuithe l disiricti ' y An "effort /should be made to cultivate. ampngst purr .pupilWcb^'fitafltfi'forVead'ing goad bqoks, as distijig'iiighiid 'irofti'tWA tional works for which many of our young people sbow such fondness, and for^a ! 'perusal of which ,' Hfejis tyo ishor^.i The constant readiugof a text-book is liable »to; c^utje/a/distaate/for the re'ry » appeWr-^ ,arioe of a book, a feeling w^Jch somn (acquaintance with' the. best anthorg wbnld very speedily remove. I recomt Qi the consideration of the, Teachers 1 Aasofiiation." ".; fi- ' .