THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M Resurrexi. MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1880

Thames Star, Issue XI, 21 June 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M Resurrexi. MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1880

Ws. learn with pleasure that Mi3B Janet Williams, third ESBistant taacher 'n tha WaioKarafca School, ha.i passed he? i'u'.l examiui: tion for certificate E. The number of mar'ra roqu'red for a pass was higher th: 3 year than last, and comparatively few candidates, have been succejaful, and the yoivjg Jad jjj^fcherefoi I.} entitle i to great ci'tdifc for Kvrjg giiuett the requisite number iv evoiy sulijcct. M. Cbarles Gribble, first; assistant iv the same

school, hi's passed the ixain'nal!on hi School Management required to entitle him to a fixed instead of p?ovi-ionn'. cei'bilii: /-; i«nd Miss M, A. Stan! n, C'sl ia <be Waiotal! Creek Scool, hit. r so eoAplt-iA her exu iiiuation for cortiGtute E.

The fitididslea for tho scholarships oi' tin Higri a:bool weto louay ex.'ttvned in Latin, arithmetic and geography.

We hare reason to believe lhat Mr F. A Pulh'enn, wjfe end hm ly •hort'.y intend leaving New Ze»la td for England, ia v.bich place they purpose sett'io" dona.

Mb GEoras BrkC* has boen appointed manager of the Southern Cross.

The following is the Weekly Stale of Sick at the Thames Gtoldfield Hospital from 13th lo 19th June, 1880:— Statistical Nosology. —Zymolie Diseases — omairud 1, remaining 1; Constitutional —remained 1, remaining 1; Local—remained 7, ra'nii'd 2, discharged 1, remaining 8j Developmi :■■'< A —nil; Violent —Eeamined 0, admitted 3, remaining 12. — Totr I—remained1 —remained 18, admitted 5, d:9eharged 1, remein^g 22. Out Patients, 50.— T. Aiton, Dispenser.

The Clmstchurcb Globe says:—Some proceeding at West Bromwich j x connection with the School Board contest at tbafc place recently, if they have been correctly repoi' d appear to call. lor the attention of the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. According to the Birmingham Gazette, atout a half-a-dozen men who were ;fied at the reßul of the election agreed at a public house to celebrate the victory l-he'r pp"Ly had won by eating a dog for supper. A hslf bred retriever was forthwith enticed into the house, k'"".edj ro^tc3, and the greater part of its remains eaten ; the liver of the animal being fried :■. a Beparaf c dish. Some of the men, it is stated, have since been too ill to work. The story, if true, shows at all events that West Bromwich w";' Iw none Ihe worse lor the " humariaing influences " of education. The Glob? doublß the correctness of the report, but those who are acquainted wi! h the joviel denizens of the confines of Birmingham will not see in the paragraph f nyUnii to d''believe. It H not long - n 4 that a p^r*/ of colliers pf'er witn s-iig tbe havoc made "n a rat pit by a ter er, made be!s among themselves that no one of hem dare eat a l-at alive, and whole. 1 ii?s wager "was accepted by a " genfleman" who fovthv^th ; ollatrd a Hverat and demoi;ehed it, ekin, Ir'l, bones and a ll. This may npperr 'o biwe a touch of Yeokeeism in it, but we can vouch for its < oivectness, being ai uuvdiMng spectator of tbe whole affair.

A batheb good joke, >nd one fio valuable I j be lost, comes to ua (Weikato T>xaes) from Te Awsoiutu. It appears that on laesday lest a worthy citizen of rhat torn stood rather long m he su i, and a friend who met Mm f-horilv ifterwpi.d', nolie'D* something strange ii A' appeau'wa, told him that he liad ie plen o. S'ari'ed by the suggestion, our woiiby it on< j wenfc to (be Telegraph office aid \ '-ed to Inspector Buneiman as follows :—" Very b. >« ca '■ uf plouro here; b.ng Kaden at onm, and if cossifcle the Chairm* i." Whe !'\ec or not ois had fiything to do with it, our ir V & >t si»te» hat he met Kunciman and Nadea en route to Te Awamutu yesterday post haste.

Thi Westport Co* ierly Company is expel lenci.ig more th i its sbxre of tbe troubles of this ] ('c (Bi<ys the Westpo • limes.) Since work (ommenced on the incline l "Iway, sever 1 mishaps have occcrrcl, rad a other Beiious one took pine on Tuesday. Wbi?st a loaded truck was being lowered, the vire rope, by some means, slipped off tbe drum, thus giving the dcs- >md'ng truck ' ,o much ••skek." The truck, at »he tme, be«g on the suO'iritof a steep g.ade, let jived such impetus es to either breek the rope or dsconnect it from the cylinder, the result being that the Uack, left to its ownsw. et wi.\ aftsr sundry acrobatic feats, erentua'ly knded at the bottom of Conn's Creek. Of cov.'se the truck was completely ruined. The causo of (bis accident is set down to tbe fact of the inexpeiience in the work of the contractors for lowering the co:-1 Demonstration was given that the mc ne ■»-111 suit all requirements by a truck being lowered in fine style just previous to the occurrence of the accident above noted. —The Buller News put 3 down the expense at £500