TARANAKI TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 61, 2 March 1908, Page 3

TARANAKI TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.

A general meeting of the Taranaki Teacher*' Institute was held in the Education Board Room on Saturday, when there was a fair attendance of teachers, Mr. J. \Y. JiaiJ, (president) udii" in the chair. Correspondence wa* received from the president of the New Zealand Kiiucatit'iial Institute inviting the cooper iti«>n of this Institute in an effort f .o enlarge the membership. There were now about 1800 teachers in the Institute. and it was desired to bring the number up to 2000 before the end of the year. The secretary was instructed to :-end a circular to all non-members, urging them to join. Mrs. Dowling and Mr. Mail submitted a report of the proceedings of the annul I conference recently held at Auckland, and. on the motion of Mr. Itic\ a very hearty vote of th«inks was accorded them for their work there anl for tlwir report.

It was moved l>y .Mr. Rice, and seconded by Mr. Mellroy. that the annua! picnic lie held at Ngairo Gardens on 21st March. The arrangements wire left in the hands of tlie executive.

The president promised to bring up the subject of the correlation of nature study and agriculture at the next meetins, to he held at Stratford .it the on! of April. TV meeting conclnded with a vote of thanks to the chair.

I MURDERED MISSIONARIES. RECOVERY OF REMAIXS. CANNIBAL VILLAGE IX XEW 1 GUINEA. I •CANOES FULL OF SKULLS.'' Sydney, February 13. The special commissioner of the Sydney Morning Herald telegraphs from | Thursday Island that on 3rd February ludge Murray (Acting-Administrator of Xew- Guinea i succeeded in peaceably ob. taining the skeletons of the late Rev. ,lames Chalmers and the Rev. 0. F. Tomkiu-. at G»aribari. the place where they were massacred in lnoi. He also vi-ited th' -ii'ne <if tin- cm diet which the late Mr. Chri-tophoi Robinson (then Acting-Adinini-tvaiori ha.l in IflOt wi'h the natives who were -uppo-c| to hav.t murdered the two missionaries, and brought the bones to the L.M.S. station at Daru.

"A small party.'' the iicciuint proceeds, "landed at Goaribnri. The native- were excited, but lodge Murray addressed them ami then gave them presents. He also inspected the village. Confidence wa- restored and the women were brought out. The canoes were fir] ~( -kiilN on the river, and the party

~nv cooked lmnian fl«—lt. The village wa- 11.-vcr pea.-e.ihlv li-it-d ln-fole. and lii- vi-it created a favorable illiptvs,i„n. .\ -ur»i.-al examination -hoc- that most ..I" lln- hone- were those of K111..p.-.111-." It would not have heen -urptisin;. ha-1 the Coaribari natives ;_>iven their vi-i----tors a different sort of ren-punn. for in view of what happened some three or four year- a«o they ean have very

little f+itl> >n the Ilritish. The story of thai disereditahle affray is well | known. Knti.-e.I aboard the Urn-eminent j st.-anier Merrie Knjiliind. the natives were seized by police, and Ihe rest shot ■it a- thev juiiiju-d overhoard and swam f..i- their'live- to the -bore. Dozens of na'ives were killed—one c-tiinate said oi»ht<-—but not one of the English I p.nrv" -ufferod even a scratch. That ev i' j«-.liii.i|i wa- s,. n t out to lire the -kull< of the mis-ionari.--. whose mur-,l-r had ln-i-ii avenged two vear« Wfn.e in :i manner that the then Administrator >ir to-or-.- I>- llniif.-. who is now ("lover- ! n-.i- of South Aii-traliii. described as li,-;.-... "very -.-vcre''—and the oflicial re- ,...,,- that "were aft.-rward- made of the I iiii:iili.t- -lain and the villa"!-- burned I -!-...-...-. I tii.it the phra mph.ved was l-iuel, to- mild. 1 Th- -i-.i-y ..!' the -eanoi- full of

skull-" and' the "cooked human flesh" miy ..r may not be true, but the writer ha- .-ome a-ro— many cannibal tales in hi- 'ime and ha= taken the trouble to investigate them, and u--w has formed a tli.s-.ry that when the Psalmist in hi* h.-t.- made hi- sweeping condemnation I of all iii.-:i. h- bad hinw-lf probably in ~ ..ti-it.-.l -ome -t.irii-s of cannibal I rib-:.