The Daily News. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 26 September 1907, Page 2

The Daily News. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26.

Tlie Central School Wiil not dose today in connection with D.miinioii Day celebrations. The miniature villi? range will not lie opened, as formerly proposed. Mr Kennedy has given notice to move ill next meeting of the Education Board that the affix "road'' lie deleted from the name of those schools which at present have that ulli.v attached.

The public are invited to attend at the racecourse this afternoon in connection with Dominion Day celebrations. The proclamation will be read at three o'clock.

Mr. Quilliain wanted to know yesterday if Mr Fitzherbert, S.M., could take "judicial notice" of some whisky exhibits. The reply from the Bench was to the effect that he had a tumbler, and would prefer to take notice with that. In these days of complaint and grumbling, and the'sparse bestowal of approbation, the following letter from the Ratapiko school committee to the Education Board is distinctly refreshing. It reads: "I am directed to inform you that we are very proud of Mrs Wilson, school teacher at Ratapiko, and we congratulate her on her good teaching."

The Tarata School Committee complains that the steps to the school porch door have rotted away, and that the door requires a new handle, as when once shut it cannot be opened from the outside except by climbing through a window. Until repairs are effected the Board will be considering the interest's of the profession by employing a male teacher to perform these acrobatic feats. The Maori niay love his pakeha brother, but he seems to have a very pool idea of his generosity. A native witness in court yesterday was asked.whether another witness was a half-caste and lived as a European. "Yes," cam; the answer, rapidly and loudly, "he is i pakeha in every sense of the word, al though he is a half-caste. He is a: mean as they make them. lie neve: parts with a"si\pem.e unless be iinds i impossible to escape." The architect who designed the SSII preme Court buildings in New I')}' inoulh war. not possessed of prophetu vision. lie did not see, even in hi: wildest flights of structural fancy, tin possibility of eight full-grown men be ing charged with an oll'enee at one am the same time. So he made no pro vision for such a contingency. Tin result is that the dock will not hold tin eight persons charged in connectioi with the recent Opinvike "tarring anc feathering" incident, and alteration! must be made.