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Patea Mail, 4 January 1882, Page 3

It is reported that Mr Fonlis, Inspector of Schools, is a candidate for a new school in this district. He bore a considerable reputation as teacher of a large primary school in Scotland. Such an appointment might be serviceable to the district, if the Board would allow ..teachers so disposed to spend a week or 5 fortnight jn the school with him, to learn improved methods of teaching. Many teachers would like very much to ' see Mr Foulis in the school-room. Mr John Gibson invites attention (first page) to various useful importations and novelties. Mr Warren is taking photographs with considerable success at his new gallery near the Institute. Among local reforms much needed is a thorough overhaul of the Patea Institute. The rainfall around Patea yesterday was the heaviest downpour for morc than a year. Such a shower in a hilly district would produce disastrous floods mf- on the low flats, a risk from which this district is remarkably free. A money order office and savings bank are now opened at Parihaka. - .New Year sports took place at ;,v Opunaki on Monday, in the Government .paddock ; most of the competitors being " A.C.’s. In the evening there was a eoncert in Courtney’s admirable room over his auction mart. The Constabulary band was in attendance. At Opunaki on Sunday Mr. Henry, the well-known coachdriver, got into an altercation with a friend, who in the scuffle got stabbed with a bayonet in the arm. The affair is to come before the R.M. Cout at Hawera.