The wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1885. THE EDUCATION ACT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 26 February 1885, Page 2

The wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1885. THE EDUCATION ACT.

Two complaints are now made against our educational system, The one is that Ifc coats too much money, and the other that enough money is not available for its efficient administration. The Act, without material alteration, has been in operation for a considerable number of years, and its results have been on the whole so satisfactory that its many and obvious imperfections have been' tolerated for the cake of the good work which it has accomplished; Still a certain amount of pressure is year after, year .brought to bear by its administrators, the Boards, to increase its cost, and by the public to diminish its cost, and the time must soon arrive when its provisions must be remodelled and reconsidered. The feeling of the community is against any decrease in the efficiency of our public instruction, and economists who would cut down the education vote must do so without injuring the standards. In New Zealand we are extravagant in many things, but if it is excusable for us to be over-liberal in any one direction, it is most assuredly bo inthe causeof education. If we do our duty by the children of the colony, giving all of them a full and free training in our standards, and enable such of them as may manifest a special aptitude for further culture to secure a course of higher education, we shall give them the best endowment at our command, and even if we increase the debt of the colony by a few millions in order to Accomplish the great work, an educated and intelligent people twenty years hence will not complain of the | burden, On the other hand it is pretty evident that the educational vote is now sufficiently large, and that the demand for augumenting it must be denied, A certain amount of re-adjustment; is required to get results, equal if not superior to those we now obtain, at a somewhat diminished cost. The Provincial system of administration now. in force in educational matters is somewhat cumbrous and expensive, the Inspectoral Department is capable of improvement, and the teaching staff is scarcely an eccinomiMl one,'the best teachers in the worst oneß overpaid. A« the number of the latter is far in excess if the former, it

fellows that the aggregate, coat of staffs Sb somewhat high, The present Premier, Mr Stout takes a special interest, in the education question, and has hadja special experience of the practical .working of • State schools'which 110 other Minister-of Education in New Zealand has possessed.; It may be possible for him to raise, the prestige of education in the Colony without increasing the cost.

' .The following is the result .of; the' Duiiedin.Cup,'run to-day :-Vanguard 1, Txentqn.2, Miuerva3. 'Three locomotive trucks, suitable• for Bawmillers &c., are advertised for sale. General entries for the New Zealand" Industrial Exhibition close in Wellington on Saturday. • ' .AYe understand that Mr.G. Beetha.ni, M.H.R.. intends to address il.iis constituents during the early pai't of next month.

■ The handicaps of the autumn meeting of the' Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club, owing to a little difficulty which has croppedupthroughahorse being scratched, will not be declared till to-morrow.

A public meeting will be held in the Institute Upper room this evening to consider the proposal of the Borough Council to borrow £IO,OOO for constructing • gas works.

The repular monthly meeting of the Masterton Farmers' Club takes place on Saturday next in the Council Chambers.

- Ilie.-Featherstori school picnic takes place to-morrow week. Mr «(• .-Tullyjias been elected Chairman of the (jreytown Lidensiiig/Committee. The bodyof young Urwin, who was drowned in the Wellington harbor on the 14th, was found this morning,

..Messrs Lowes & lorns advertise excep> tionally good entries in aheep for their next market sale on Wednesday, March 4th.

MrF, H. Wood announces an unreserved sale of dressed timber at Mr E, Tonmath's mill yard, Queen-st, on Saturday the 7th proximo. The Waihakeke Sohool Committee havo supported Messrs Brown, Pateraon, and Spoedy for tho Education Board, and the Groytown Sohool Committee have given their vote to Messrs Olivor, Pateraon, and %oedy,

The Bev L, M. Isitt re-delivers his ablo lecture op "GenepaJ Gordon" this evening at the Wesl&yp Church. Wp trust that even unfovgiiible weather wili not prevent him from obtaining an audience worthy of the themo and of the lecturer.

Messrs Whitt and Donaldson, cabinetmakers, of this town, are busily engaged it) making the necessary alterations in the shop lately ficoiipied by Mr Evens, the well-known chemist, an<| fftting it up with new counters and fixtures prefaratqry jto its being opened by Professor Huxley as a tailor's and outfitter's depot.

Mr Buckley is reported to be preparing ft hospital and charitable aid bill. This bill, after his recent trips, will be a big .Qiie an<J >yijl jjjjJvide refreshments all over the colony during • the Jiottest season of the year, The attendance at the flower show yesterday was considerably affected by the wet weather that set in, the takings at the-door being only £l3 as against £3O last year. In the evening Mi 1 H. Pearson's Brass Band enlivened the proceedings with a variety of operatic airs and the visitors had an advantage in king able to examine the various exhibits-.without being ovorprp\yded. Tlie firet and second prize? for tomatoes at the'horticultural show yoeterday yere taken by Mr Wakeman, custodian of the Masterton Club, not Mr Wickenden, as statedin our yesterday'spme list. They were'grown in the open, and one .of the judges Mr F. Cooper, stated he had never jeen tomatoes , cultivated out of doors brought to such perfection in size, shape, and quality,

: The following team will represent tho Masterton Volunteers in a rifle match with the Wellington Guards to be fired on Saturday next at MastertonCaptain Donald, Sergeant Matthews, Corporals McLachlan, Kibblewhifce, Anketell, Vols F. Kummer, F. .Bright, C, Bentley, G, Bentley, W. Welch. Emergency, C. Hoffiens. Referees, Lieut. Cameron, Sergeant Woods, Firing to commence at seven o'clock a.m.

At the meeting of the Masterton Fire Brigade held last night the following committee was appointed to interview the committee appointed by the Borough Council on tho subject of steam fire engineOapt. Keester, Lieut. Dixon, and Sec. Easthope. Fire Inspector Muir presented fireman Hounalqw with two medals won at' the.; New Zealand Fire Brigades Competition at Dunedin last month, the • first; being for Rush and Alarm, the second for Flat Race run in full uniform.

We hear that'Mr F. H. Wood has purchased the section of land fronting Queenstreet known as Bright's, and sections fronting Chapel-street knownas Corbett's, next Toomath's Mill. The Queen-street section has a frontage of 31ft by a depth of two chains, and the back sections a frontage of 160 ft to Chapel-street, by a depth of three chains. We are informed that it is the intention of Mr Wood to erect a commodiouß auction room on the front section, and sale yards on the back ones,

We hear that Mr 6. Cokeria negotiating for the appearance of Mr John Radcliffe, the world-renowned flutist, and his wife, Madame Pauline Rita, Prima Donna, in Masterton. If' he succeeds, the public will have one of the greatest musical treats, that has ever been presented to thenvas-they aro acknowledged by the entire Australian Press to be two ofthe greatest geniuses that have ever visited the colonies. Mr T. Price Girdwood, contractor of Masterton, met with ii severe accidont to-day. Having his carts disengaged, he very .disinterestedly determined upon spreading a few loads of gravel over the public school grounds, he being a member of % School Committee. He had just taken in! and disposed of the first load, and*, jWas leading his horse towards theVgate when the school-boys came out at half-past twelve and their shouts startled the horse who bolted with Mr Girdwood still holding on to the reins. Seeing the horse start only increased the shouting of the children, and the animal giving a sudden swerve, knocked Mr Girdwood down, striking him with its hoof, and the wheel passed over the left side of his head crushing his ear and inflicting a scalp wound. The injured man was conveyed to his residence in Hope-street, and attended to by Dr. Beard who found no bones broken but he discovered that in addition to the wounds on his head, the chest and back were severely bruised. This is the second accident within the last ten days that has befel Mr Girdwood.

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The Hon G. M, Waterhouse is again about to pay a visit to England. ' About a dozen years ago a' Whareama shepherd named William Price distinguished himself by a deed of heroism, He was out fishing in a boat with three the, craft upset, and .lie being a good swimmer, was spoedily ashore, Looking back, he saw a mato of his named Thomas Liddy who, was less fortunate, so ho swam back to 'his assistance and towed him to the subverted boat, and helped him- on to it,. Liddy. was weak, and told Price to leave him to die and save himself as the boat was drifting out to sea. Price, however, volunteered to cast in his lot with his unfortunate comrade, and drifted out to sea with him, holding liim on the boat. Poor Liddy in a few hours died from exposure, but when the tide turned the boat was seen drifting bacF to land with Price on .the. top of ;it -clinging to the corpse of his.Mend'.' A'settlor in his neighbourhood who met Price' the other day was astonished to find that .one of the pluckiest attempts ever made to save life had never been acknowledged by the Royal Society; possibly, because when the event occurred it was never reported through any official channel to that institution. AVeix's "'rough on Cokns".—Ask for Well's "Rough on Corns". ty&,■ Quickrelief, complete erm&nent cure. Corns, Warts, bunions, Moses, Moss, k Co,, Sydney, General Agents.—Advt