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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1588, 22 December 1885, Page 2

Mr Fountaine's many friends will b* glad to hear that he is about to return to Woodville, and may be expected next month. He returns via Briridisi 2— Examiner, . •-• The licensee of the All Nations Hotel Ohinemuri, has been fined £10 for supplying liquor to a druoken man. --■ The Coroners Act 1867 Amendment Act 1885 contains only one clause, 'b** sides the title, it runs thus .v-Tlje. "cVn— currence of four jurors m a verdict at any inquest or inquiry taken by or before any cordner shall be sufficient; and not mure than six. persons shall at any time be required to constitute VJofy "at any inquest or inquiry. At the closo of the distribution of the prizes at the Newtown School, W«!« lington, the Chairman of the .Education Board (Mr J. R. Blair) said -it was a matter for great regret thatf^he bulk of the children '. m that "distrili were removed from school -on.reaching the 4th standard. He knew that parents sometimes had -a struggle to nj*k e bothj-eudi meet, and took their cliildr»n* from school thus early to plaoe,- them m a position to earn something ter th« family, support', bat he ?thoiifhs> this might be obviated to a f r«it / txtrtt by a little Btflf-sacrificW It wai on^ |fhta the pupils, reached Jhe §th^»r6th stand* ,*rd that thtir real education cbmmencod» arid lit Was- a great pity to r«msye' Jh»m from school, bsfqre rsachmf v on« or other of these standards. 1 He also gsv» the children some very good advice. H» urged them not to u«gl*ct their- aUidi«» daring tlie long vacation, but to dtvot* an hour or two to them every day, ao •that they might return to, , ,vc i .. t ichool ready to male* a fair start for In* ~ next year. Unless they did this, he s«!d k much of their instruction would ba thrown away, and they would hoi hay* ao good a chance ot obtaining priaaa* at the u»xt' breaking up. ' ■.•■.. { J;f; ,^ An inquest was held at r th« Wellington Hospital on Friday nidrnihg b'«|pr* Dr Johnson, the Coroner, on the body of Andrew Ljikschwiscki, a lunatic, who died the night before last. Th¥^Jtrry*-i» turned a verdict of " death from natoral causes," the cause of deathr'b'eiijg diMaM of the kidneys. Lukichwiscki, who waa believed to be a Pole, was a firmer, and had. been ac inmate of the- JLuMtio Asylum since the 23rd Septeta < b ( er, a hia two sons, farmers at Halcpmbe, oontributing towards his maintenance thtr*. * ibOO gallons of milk l afei^eibg r^ ceived daily at Jthe Geraldine Dairy Factory, payment for which is made at the rate of 3|d per f alloa- of lllbs for all showing 10^ per cent of >cr«am, between 9£ and 10J ,per -cen|. 3Jd, all below, 9| per cent is refused^ On Christmas land Boxing days tha Wellington and Mana^raTu Railway Co. will run excursion trains to Pukerua between ' four and fiv» miles beyond Plimmorton. It _.ia- not. intended to carry on ordinary traffic beyond Pliramerton, bnt the line will m future ba always available for special , holiday excursions to Ptikerua. • ; - ?