General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4051, 22 December 1881, Page 2

General News.

Id response to a requisition the Mayor of Wellington has convened a public meeting to discuss the question of the recent conviction of a Chinaman for playing fan-tan. .. .Richard Lancaster, a butcher of Ashburton, was yesterday fined £1 by the fi.M. for a breach of the Gaming and Lotteries Act. He had held a raffle amongst his friends, the price being a whole sheep and three large loaves of bread. . -

Sereral charges heard yesterday ia Auckland preferred against Aichard Beat and Charles Alexander Marain, of the Park hotel, of recemng stolen goods were adjourned to Saturday. A bazaar was opened yesterday in Auckland in aid of the buildinjkfand of the new St Benedict's Churchrfveirton, being erected by the members of the Benedictine Order. The affair was very successful.

The Education Board and School Com* nittees are frequently put to inconvenience tkrough theit young lady teachers, after tkey hare become. duly qualified for the duties of imparting tuition in the public school, slipping off into the matrimonial atate, and leaving vaoanoies in the staff tint cannot always be readily, filled. - Of course girls will be girls, and when an eligible offer is placed in the scale against the public school system it is not difficult to see how the beam will be kicked. But why young lady teachers should volun. tarily fine themselves in order to obtain natrimonial promotion, is not no easily understood. In a school not one hundred niles from Auckland, one young lady has Uid herself open to the forfeiture by the Hoard of over £18 of her salary rather tkan give notice of resignation, and thus let the Board and the committee know tltt she was "keeping company," and intended consummating marriage. Unless the happy man is something of the 6rdi< nary run of humanity, it does look very auch as if the young lady was " paying too dear for her whistle."