EDUCATION BOARD.
The monthly meeting of the. liduycation Board was held on Wed■Biosdfty last. Permission to remove timber from an old shed at the Mauriceville railway station was gn.nted to Mr W, Blinkhorn, subject to the local Committee's approval. The Pahiatua Committee applied for funds to erect a shelter shed, and also that the Board should pay £1 per week for the .'ftjirpose of conveying children from the Village Settlement to the school. It was decided that the Inspector, who is about to visit tho locality, should bring up a report on both mattors, Applications were received lor grants to execute repairs to School residences from the Matarawa and Waingawa Committees. The Board decided to inform the applicants that they had no funds available, and the opinion was ex■J, pressed that Committees should make % an effort to help themselves in such i matters, In connection with the] application made at the last meeting of tho Board that the Masterton A Big Theft. At Nice the other week a theft of diamonds, valued. • over 100,000 lr„ was committed by a person supposed to be an Englishman, He visited the shop of a jeweller named Boxta, and presented a card bearing the name of Admiral Sir Arthur Gumming, together with the arms of that family, \ Ho made a small purchase, and re- * turning in a day or two said his wife required a considerable quantity of diamonds, M, Boxta sent to Paris and got a beautiful riviere, which was valued at £2OOO, together with some choice rings and bracelets, worth, in all over £IOOO, The so-called admiral had rented rooms in a fashionable Quarter, asked M. Boxta to bring them for his wife's inspection. He went, and was shown into the saloon. The " admiral' \flourished a pile of what appeared to be bank of England notes, and said he would not spend more than £SOOO, Thus assured, M. Bor.ta allowed him to take the diamonds into an adjoining room for examination, but the so-called admiral was never seen after.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2862, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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349EDUCATION BOARD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2862, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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