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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9076, 17 February 1908, Page 8

A man named J. Birkett, employed in a metal pit, on "the Upper Tntaenui road, Marton, fell off a cart load of metal to-day, and sustained a severe fracture of the leg. At Hastings Magistrate’s Court, Samuel Hill (alias Ryan) and Micliael Regan (alias Hogan), both well-known to the police, were committed for trial to the Supreme Court on a charge of brutally assaulting a man named Frederick Fox by kicking him and causing actual: bodily harm. Bail was filed at £2OO each. Mr Widdowson, S.M., in the Dunedin Police Court, decided that Charles Mack was an habitual drunkard, within the meaning of the Act and committed him to the Pakacoa Inebriates Home, Auckland, for two years. This is the second man to be so dealt with under the Act in Dunedin. Andrew Running, master of the auxiliary scow Maggie, was fined £5 and costs £2 17s for employing a man in the dual capacity of seaman and cook. On the application of defendant’s counsel, Mr Widdowson, the Dunedin Magistrate, raised the fine to £5 Is to admit of appeal. The Hon. Fowlds in a speech at Tuparoa said a mistaken idea prevailed in regard to the instruction imparted in native schools which was up to the 6th and 7th standards, whilst proficiency certificates entitled the holders to the same free place for secondary education the same as Europeans. Among the subjects he proposes to discuss with the natives is the proposed section of the cottage hostel (not hospital) to form the coping stone of a system of traininglaative nurses. Our Awahnri correspondent says: —Quite a gloom was': castjfover the district on the news of the death of Angus Stuart, which took place apt Palmers ton Hosptial on Saturday. Hefeyent there to undergo an operationTSiffihich proved fatal. He was a son of Hfe Thomas Stuart, of Awahuri, daughter ctef Mr John McLean. Deceased wasmhighly respected. He leaves a widow and one child. At the Dunedin Amateur Athletic Club’s annual sjteorts meeting on Saturday a very Sjetroug Jwind militated against fast t\mes. The New Zealand team eu rout&e to Hobart for the Australasian championships was present. O. L. OrbelljL Canterbury, did sft 9Kin. in the\ high jump, beating the New ZeaVand record (R., Brownlee, Dunedidn, 1899) by %inch. Kerr, of Wellington, regarding whose style thelre has been so much controversy, won both walking events witholut much trouble. Orbell (owe isfeyds) and Cook (owe 16yds). of the {New Zealand team, failed to quayify in the 120yds hurdles. I Wanganui Education Boiard has received from the Departiment word that a grant for a technical school at Taihape has been linade. This with the amount subscribed by residents of Taihape and. tthe Government subsidy will enable] a building to be erected which will provide instruction in woodwork, cookery and science for the -pupils of the upper classes of the school and technical classes for others. It is expected that at no ,disfcant date , Taihape school will b« converted into a District High School.