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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 912, 26 January 1881, Page 5

'The business on Monday evening at the annual meeting of the School Committee presented no very special features. There was but a small attendance, which is a matter for regret as parents should not neglect these opportunities of • electing gentlemen thoroughly competent for thr offices they will have to hold as Committee meh. However, in the present instance an excellent few have been selected, including four of the old Committee. Mr. F.J. Piesse was re-ap-pointed Secretary. Professor Haselmayer, the wonderful exponent of prcestigia, rather astonished a Native at the Turanganui Hotel yesterday. The simple aboriginal hitched his horse up to one of the posts at the edge of the footpath, and the Professor immediately commenced to admire the animal, but, whilst feeling its points he somehow touched the Saddle-flaps when shillings uncountably fell into his outstretched palms. The Native noticing the silver torrent, and thinking he had been defrauded of some hidden wealth he had never been aware he possessed, rose to the occasion, and jumping around, let loose the girths and battered the saddle against the post, but couldn’t raise even a jingle Dismay was depicted on his bronzed and dark-complexioned face, and as he hurriedly rode away, he exclaimed “ tipo.”