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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1309, 14 April 1883, Page 2

i A rather remarkable proposition was made by the Waimate County Council. They asked the South Canterbury Schoo) Board to allow the teachers to collect the dog tax. The Tauranga “ Guardian ” in announcing its disease, says :—" In due time we found we had reckoned without our host. We discovered that the support accorded to us was more in work than in specie, and the result has been that, after giving the place a fair trial, we reluctantly conclude that the * game is not worth the candle.' Hard work and book debts are not satisfactory things to exist upon for ever, and we do not intend to do it any longer." The businesa has bean a good one, eo far as work is concerned, but if wo wrote to our epitadh it would be * Killed by the Credit System. ’" The Wellington “Times” says:—“We regret exceedingly that it falls to our duty to record tbe premature death of Mr Frederick Nicholls, formerly head reporter on tbe staff of this journal, and at one time subeditor of the Otago “ Daily Times.” Mr Nicholls, besides being a most intelligent and genial person in general society, was in his own particular sphere one of the ablest Pressmen in New Zealand. As a Parliamentary reporter he was known amongst Pressmen aa unsurpassed fn the Colony. He possesssed the rare faculty of reporting and condensing for the Press at the same time. It was moat unfortunate for him that he sometimes gave way to his one failing—a failing to which we need not further allude, but one, unhappily, too common among able and brilliant Pressmen in all parts of the world. Still, let those who are absolutely free from all sin be the first to throw stones at the memory of an upright, kind-hearted, and highly intelligent man. It is only due to the late Mr Nicholls to state that his end was hastened by devotion to his duty whilst constantly inhaling the foul air of the Parliament Houses in Wellington. Mr Nicholls leaves a widow and two children to lament his loss.” We were intimately acquainted with the deceased gentleman, anti can, with the “ Times ” regret that at the early age of 33 he should have fallen out from the ranks of journalism. Mr Nicholls was at one time editor of the “ Bruce Herald ” and had in addition a large experience for one so young i:i Australia as a reporter. He was a clever writer, a true Bohemian, and a staunch friend.