The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20,1887. EDUCATIONAL RETRENCHMENT.
It is understood that the expenditure of this colony on Education is about to be materially reduced, a percentage is expected to be taken off teachers' salaries and allowances, and a general all-round clipping on other items, The problem, Mr Fisher, the Minister for Education, has sot for himself is to bring the expenditure in this department within our means, without curtailing the facilities, which the; children of New Zealand have been wont to enjoy, for securing sound elementary education at the cost of the State, It is not pretended that the cost of Education hitherto lias, been extravagant, that we have been paying too much for it, but simply that it is costing the colony more than we can afford to pay, The tendency has been to increase year by year certain ornamental additions to the ordinary standard wo-k, to employ professors of. drawing, professors of calisthenics, and professors of science. The late Minister of Education, Sir Robert Stout, was an enthusiast in loading the syllabus, and enthusiasm usually costs money, Boards were encouraged to carry full sail, and gradually the establishments increased in dimensions, till they became too great a strain upon our resources, and had to be cut down. Many will regrptthaj teachers' salaries should be touched, and it is extremely probable they might have been spared, if the fancy professors had been dispensed with. For a dozen years or more, teachers have drawn a fair fixed income, one that certainly could not be termed too high, but which was sufficiently liberal to keep good men in the service. We hopo the reduction now threatened will not have the effect of alienating such .men. A national system of State Education such as we possess kills private teaching, and makes one and all dependant to a large extent upon the State schoolmaster. A n inferior teacher is dear at any price, and a superior one cheap at -the scale of remuneration, which has- hitherto obtained in this colony. ..Our Educational aystem will be ft failure, if it ceases, to attract the services of able teaohprg,
Mi' F. H, Wood announces a stock sale at the Tiu'jitfilu yards for Thursday next, Tlie list at present comprises about eleven hundred shoep and lanjbs,' shorn and in the wool, und twenty head of mixed cattle. We publish to-day the' programme of a Grand Fete to tako place in Carterton on Anniversa'ry Day in aid of the funds for clearing off the debt on St. Mark's Parsonage. A capital. programme of sports has been arranged, the principal events being the Aunivoraary Handicap, 100,220, and 440 yards; a Milo Handicap and Friendly Societies Race. Nominations are due with thn Secretary at Carterton, on January 4th, 1888.
Those persons who ajp in tho habit .of frequenting the wharves in the oarly partof the foronoon to get a Bmell of the fresh air, and for other purposes says tho Lyttelton Tjmes, were yesterday morning treated to a glimpse of a shark, the dimensions of which exceeded those of any such monste'' brought into port for some coiplerAble time. From inquires made it appeared fcjnjt two fishermen, named Clarkson and N.ewton, while engaged, at .their work'off Port Levy Heads, on Monday evening, fouud that the mpnster had got entanglqd with their nets, After a ,d,eal of tjniejni} trouble they succeeded in getting tjio bruta cjofle enough to their boat to put aji end to any iittie tricks it might ,b,e expected to perforin should it !?,e forjnnato enough to cpmp icro'ss a ', S-wpmer. Jjk jy'as fftuiuj itoXe one qi the fjger species, sd& nmws 'Ult frap? ">»quttotil# mififfa taJVffhilejn girtji itmeasurf%t% '&W*» animal to secure for use" *■«•« » » ?UP' piled with no less than pine rowfl of OTeMookjng teeth/
. The Mastorton Volunteer Band will be in attendance at the Mauricoville Athletic Sports on Monday next.
Charles Doylo, a "drunk," was discharged with a caution.by Mr W, Lowes, J.P., at the Masterton K.M. Court this morning. Mr Pearson's Private Brass Band has been engaged to play at the MastertonOpaki Juckey. Club's Race Meeting on Munday ana Tuesday next.. The special Railway TimoTablo for the ..Christinas and New \ear Holidays on the Wellington-Wairarapa Railway is published in our preseut isauo.
Mr A. E. Elkins lias had his turn in catching a big fish, having been lucky enough to pull out a four and a half pound trout near Mr Rcnall's mill. The result of polls taken to borrow money under the Loans'to Local- Bodies Act 1880, for works at Upper Fernridge and Opaki, to Rangitumau Road are advertised in another column by the Masterton Road Board.
Mr Louisson, with a staff of linesmen, is making great prowess in erecting thetelegraph poles and wires between Mastorton and Mangamahoe., The work will be completed to Mauriceville by the second week in January, ?
Messrs Lowes and lorns selKat their yards to-morrow a line of-splendid Chnstmaß Beef, 70 head of.large cattle, a lot of mixed cattle,' dairy cattle, and one bull, also 300 store wetliers, 700 owes and lambs, Horses of all classes, pigs, etc, . There was another largo attendance at Mr Gordon Forlong's mission meeting at tho (Theatre Royal last evening, when tho lecturer delivered an interesting address on the inspiration of the Bible by God. This evening the subject will bo " Prophecies actually and literally fulfilled," m which he will bliow that in the case of Egypt and other countries, scripture has been literally fulfilled in the piesent state of affairs. As he will deal with historical facts in his arguments the address should be well worth listening to. Messrs Bassett &Blane, the contractors for the Bluff road, leading to the Ruamahuoga Railway Brid?o, whilst engaged cutting into the bank on Mr Duncan McLaolilan's property, came across numerous fossil remains of shell and other fish. In some cases tho latter were found intact, but on being exposed to the atmosphere they . immediately crumbled away. On Saturday last, we were shown by Mr Henry Welch a splendid specimen of a shark's tcoth, about one and a-half inches long, taken from the same locality. A few months ago the Happy Valley Meat Company of Wellington, purchased from various owners m Kopuarangi their interest in bush sections amounting to something like 1000 acies of Btanding bush. Though comparatively speaking only in.their possession a few weeks, the whole of tho 1000 acres with the exception of about 100 for shelter lias beeii felled. Mr C. Battes, tho Manager of the estate, informs us that the whole will be burnt about the beginning of February. The illumination ought to be seen from Masterton with good effect on the evenings when the lire is in progress,
Last weeks Constable Eccleton wont to Wellington, taking with him some of the vomit from the children ot Mr Mackay, who suffered so severely from taking poison says the Standard. Some milk, cakes and lollies, and some dandelions from the road, were also taken, and the whole placed in the hands uf the Government Analyst. Un Saturday this offiicial reported that he had analysed % various articles submitted, and had found pojson. in the vomit and iii tho dandelions, It would therefore-appear-that the children wero poisoned by eating the flowers on the roadside after the employees of the Borough Council had saturated the weeds'with the arsenical solution, We heir that an information will be laid by-tho polioo against the person employed by tho Council for laying poison on the public road contrary to the Act.
At the Waimate R.M. Court last week, before Messrs Sinclair and Hayes, .l,P,'s, Ohing Ah ftong was charged with unlawfully workiugat his calling in view.of the public on Sunday, December 11th. The defendant en being asked' to plead, said, "No no, me no work on Sunday." Sergeant Gilbert stated that on Sunday, 14th December, he was on duty in High Str°ct, and observed smoke issuing from the direction of the Chinamen's garden. On going into the latter place, ho found defendant with his coat off burning rubbish. On asking him why he was working on Sunday, he pointed to the sky, and remarked that it would 1 be wet on the following day. Tho Bench inflicted a line of 53 and coats Weli/s Hair Balsam. Ifgro)-,rep'torcstp'originalpolpr. J\\\ elegant dressing, softens'and beuutltiaa. No oil nor grease. A Tonic Restorative. Stops hair coming out; strengthens, cleanses, heals scalp. Ski«nvMe,v.
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The lapse of time brings us once more to the festal and crowning month of the year and with it lo tho time honoured practice of the free distribution of Holiday, and Christinas presents at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse To Aro House, Wellington. Wc have a really grand variety, of useful, ornamental and artistic articles, fit to put on any table, and to adorn equally the mansion and the cot, and these we intend to give away in accordance with tho amount of purchases made, during the month of December at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, l'e Aro House, Wellington', "6n ali cash'purchases of the followjug amounts we shall give proportionate presents -thus; purchase 10s gift is, purchase 15s gift Is 6d, purchase 20s gift 2s, purchase 25s gift 2s 6d, purchase 30s gift 3s, purchase 35s gift 3s Gd, purchase 40s gift 4s, purchase 45s gift 4s Gd purchase 50s gift ss, purohase £3 gjft 6s, purchase £4 gift Bs, purchase £5 gift 10s purchase £6 jjjft 12s, pin-phase £7 gift l4s, purohase £8 gift lbs, purchase" £l) .gift lis', purchase £lO gift 20s, and so in the same proportion up to purchases of £SO or more at tho Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. Wairarapa residents are reminded that in pur Warehouse io~ every facility of exercising a large variety of oh'pioe',%d* that 'all goods are marked at actualwholesale prices, that a visit:to our'wariehpuse wpulo* at' 1 p'nee i GRift/ftM? ({!s{}s tears sure'jo carry many pUsjnj rfiwf»4er(! of the adva'tjl jges secured and pijr: jping At the Te Aro WHolcsalo JWy .Warehouse, Wellington
■ Roland Jacques coaih driver of Masterton has bled a petition in Bankruptcy.
■.'Messrs Lowes and lorns announce an extensive Bale of Drapery, Furniture, and Produce for Saturday next. The notice of appeal eivon by Mr Beard in the case John Graham, v Wri P 'loy Bros' and Rose lias been abandoned
The Annesbrouk estate of 213 acres, .3 miles from Nelson, was sold on Saturday by auction for £GSOO. The purchaser was Mr F. Trask.
Parliament has decided that the minimum school age shall not be raised to six years.
There is a deadlock between the House and Legislative Council as to '.whether Laud Boards shall go or stay^"
Mr J. R. Blair has lost his youngest son, a youth 16 years of age, who died on Sunday, at the Wangauul Collegiate School.
The Canterbury llugby Union lave decided to guarantee Ll5O towards the oxpenses of avisit of the English team; but in the event of tho gross gate receipts exceed ing £250, the surplus to be handed over to the team.
Three houses at Coromandel, Auckland owned by Mrs M'lntosh were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The occupants, Messrs Ryan, Wells, and Elsmoro, with their families, escaped with their lives, but nearly all the furniture was lost. There are no insurances. In tho Carterton R M. Court this morning, William Hart was fined 20s and costs and bound ovor to keep the pence for two months, himself in LjO and two sureties of-L5 each for unlawfully assaulting Mrs George at Clareville on-the night of 11th hist. Tho defendant went to the houao bf complainant on the night in question, tho worse for liquor, and finding her husband away from home,; caught hold of her, but she managed to escape to the house of a neighbor. Mr A. McKay, assistant Government geologist, in his report, onthe recent find of copper near Woodville, says that the presence of this ore is a very favorablo indication of the presence of the lode and its extension in depth, The.geological formation in which the ore occurs iB tho same mineralised rock that flanks both sides o( the main range from Terawhiti to the Manawatu Gorge, and shown to extend into the Ruahino ranges.
The numerous friends of Mr" R. fl Elliotte, the present lessee of tho Mangamalioe railway refreshment rooms, will regret to learn that owing to ill health lie liub-decided to relinquish his present business as public caterer, and retire into private life on his property at the Taueru. For many years Mr Elliotte has attended to tho inner wants of the trayelling public in various pats of the Wairarapa, and a moro jovial and obligins; host was seldom to be met witii. Mr Power, late of the Star Hotel, Wellington, will, we. understand, tako over Mr Elliotte's interest in the Mangamahoe refreshment room, at the end of the present week. In the Masterton It, M; Court yesterday afternoon before S, von Stunner, R. M., A. G. Smith sued E, Kibblewhite for the sum of £8 balance due on a contract, Mr Beard appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Pownall defended. It appeared, from the evidence given, that plaintiff contracted to lot a house for defendant, and in signing tie specifications, which were written on four pages ot foolscap, omitted to attach Ins name to the folio on which fences and outhouses were specified, lie consequently refused to. erect these without additional pay, and defen dant refused to pay him until ho compleled, tho job. • Hence tho aution, After hearin? considerable evidence on both sides, judgment was given for plaintiff for £7, £1 being deducted for delay on the contract.
Aii adjourned meeting of creditors in the eatato of George Farmer, tobacoomst,' of Maßterton was held at Wellington, yesterday. The debtor was subjeoted to along cross-examination, when tho following resolution was proposed by Mr Laclimau; " That the insolvent) be publicly examined at the next sitting of the insolvency Court held at Wellington, and that counsel be retained." Mr Harris seconded the motion. Ho thought that the case was one which should be investigated to the utmost limit, if only as an examplo to others, if- the law was to have any efficacy it -should be *o purify commercially, as it was time that a stop should be put to such cases. The resolution was carried. The following motion was also carried, viz., " That the bankruptcy be transferred to Wellington." Mr Sellavs, on behalf of the father-in-law and the brother-in-law, made an offer of 3s in the £ for the stock. It' was decided to hold the matter over until a report was received from Mr Lachman, whoso offer to go up to Masterton abou,t tho sth or 6th of January, ajid take a valuation of th,e gtonij, provided his e?pep?cii wprp pajd, wiisftceeptci
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2779, 20 December 1887, Page 2
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