PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price 1d. Circulation nearly 600 : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, Feb. 4, 1882.

Patea Mail, 4 February 1882, Page 2

PATEA DAILY MAIL. Published every Evening, Price Id. Circulation nearly 600 : average last quarter 510. Politics, Independent. Saturday Evening, Feb. 4, 1882.

Advice was recently given to School Inspectors at Home, from the head of the department in these judicious and pointed words:—“ You will bear in mind that anything like dictation to teachers, as if they were in any sense officers of the Department, or responsible to any one save the managers of their schools, should be very carefully avoided. It is no part of an inspector’s duty either to find fault, or to reprove a teacher. If he thinks it either necessary, or a kindly act, to give advice or warning to a teacher, it should not be done in the hearing of the scholars or pupil teachers. But, above all, it is incumbent on an inspector to show by his manner in examining, and dealing with the classes and with individual scholars, that the main object of his visit to a school is to elicit what the children know, and not to prove their ignorance. That object is entirely defeated, if by a harsh, impatient, or indistinct manner of questioning the scholars, he frightens or confuses them, or if he puzzles them by fanciful and unreasonable questions.” —ls not the above advice peculiarly applicable to the system of inspection and the manner of some inspectors in this colony 1 A private meeting of the creditors of Mr D. M. Warren, Patea, was held last evening, when Mr Barton, for the debtor, submitted a statement of affairs, offering a composition. Mr Dale, as the largest creditor, suggested a basis of composition, which was assented to, being equal to 12s in the pound—Bs payable at once, and 4s at the end of twelve months, the latter being conditional on improved value of premises at that date. Bishop Suter and family, of Nelson, have left for a trip to the Old Country. The Bishop expects to be absent about sixteen months. In Auckland there arc about 300 gas cooking stoves at work.

Messrs Hearn & Kennedy have just got in a quantify of wheat on their Waitotara farm, in splendid condition Mr Hearn says he never saw finer wheat. Dr Keating and Dr Croft examined Mrs Hongnez this morning, and certified to her mental condition. The R.M. thereon made an order that she be sent to Wellington Asylum. She is to be in care of her husband till the steamer sails next week. A man named Dunn, of Woodville, died recently at the Hospital, leaving young children. Two are placed in care of neighbors, at a cost of 15s a week, tl'.e money being paid by the public trustee out of the small property left. Another child, a girl aged nine years, was this morning ordered by the E. M. to be sent to the Industrial School at Christchurch, she having no visible means of support. It appears the small property left will not long sustain the two younger children. Tenders for felling bush on roads in the Waimatc Highway district are as follow, the two lowest being accepted: —Hunter Koad .* R. W. Smith & Co. (accepted), 15s 6d; W. Pearce (informal), 15s sd; P. McMillan, 16s; Harris, 17s 6d ; P. Christian (informal) 18s fid; H. McDevitt, £1 8s 9d ; J. Alexander, £1 ss. Stewart Road ; H. Knaff (accepted), 12s; P. McMillan, 15s ; Bracegirdle & Cox, 16s ; M’Devitt, £1 3s 9d.