WINTON.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 32, 3 November 1894, Page 5

WINTON.

A meeting of the school committee •was held last Monday, and was attended by Messrs J. Cowie, C. Nair-

man, M. Daly (secretary), J. Keith, and E. Andrews. Accounts amounting to £4 16s Id were passed for payment. The Inspector’s report on the annual inspection, which took place on the 24th and 25th Oct., was then read, and judging from the following extracts it is highly commendable, and reflects great credit on Mr Wylie and his staff ; —235 pupils were presented ; 154 present; 145 passed, made up as follows 7th Standard, 10 present, all passed ; 6th Standard, 19 present, 17 passed ; sth Standard, 21 present, 19 passed ; 4th Standard, 37 present, 34 passed ; 3rd Standard, 28 present, 26 passed ; 2nd Standard, 39 present, 39 passed. Grammar in Standards 3 and 4, satisfactory; do in Standards 5 and 6, good ; history in Standard 3, very good ; do in Standards 4,5, and 6, good; geography, intelligently known ; elementary science object lessons, good; mental arithmetic in St. 1, good ; do in Standards 2 and 3, excellent; do in Standards 4,5, and 6, fair ; repetition recitation, very good throughout; drill and exercise, excellent; singing, very good ; needlework, very good ; comprehension of the language of reading lessons, very good throughout. The infant department continues to be excellently managed. The upper school standards, 2 to 7, are in a thoroughly efficient state. The various exercises written during the progress of the examination are praiseworthy, and in the oral work many of the pupils proved themselves possessed of ready intelligence, and all of a disciplined will and pleasant manner. There are seven going up for scholarships. Judging from the number of “blood animals” out for our races on the 9th and 10th irst., this year’s meeting should, with fine weather, eclipse all previous records. I notice there is to be no booth other than a temperance one. Probably it will be all for the best. In the evening our brass band is to give a concert in the Exchange Hall, and if the syllabus to be submitted is any criterion it will be one of no mean order. The promoters and

string bands will give selections, and I would not be certain that the Winton Creek Navals’ Band, about to be established, is not ready for the occasion. If so the concert will be Al. There are two or three members who formerly belonged to the well-known champion Kaikorai Band who will become members of this new institution, so that, taken as a whole, our wants are well supplied, as far as music is concerned. A meeting of the Caledonian Society was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall last Wednesday —Mr J. McArthur in the chair. The programme of sports submitted by the revising committee was, after slight alterations, adopted. One feature is a Sheffield Handicap of £B. The following gentlemen w r ere appointed a concert committee, with power to add to their number, viz. : —Messrs W. Keith (president), J. McArthur, R. and J, Wilson, M. Daly, D. Cameron, E. R. Kidd, J. Campbell, A. Liddell, J. McVicker, and M. O’Brien. Programmes were ordered to be circulated immediatelv.