The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1888. The new Education Board Regulations.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3029, 15 October 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1888. The new Education Board Regulations.

At a special meeting of tho Masterton School Committee held on Friday last a resolution was passed which reflected somewhat upon tho administration of the Education Board. Tho origin of the meeting was tho receipt of the following curt communication from tho Board "In order to bring your school staff 'more in accord with the new regulations Mr Smi h has been selected for transfer to Dreyerton, and Miss Johnstone has been relented for tho appointment to your school. Miss Johnstone has been through her pupil teacher's course, and has entered the training college as a student. I now consult you in terms of the Act."

In order to fully appreciate the value of tho proposal contained in this missive it must be borne in mind that for years past the polioy of the Mastorton School Committee has been to secure ns largo a proportion of male teachers as possible on the staff, The reason for this polioy has been tolerably obvious, viz: the averago male teacher does bettor work than the average femalo teacher, and as a rulo tho male teachor is moro durable. The female teacher just when she becomes expert is often apt to disappear in ashowor of rice and a flush of orango blossoms, but a similar crisis only acts as a stimulant to the male teacher. Of course, there are many capable female teachers, and Masterton has been fortunate in securing soveral highly qualified mistresses, but still oxperienco turns the scale in favor of the masouline export. Wheu, therefore, the Board Bays wo are going to take away one of your competent male teachers, and givp you instead a female pupjl teacher, a, somewhat severe blow is aimed at the Masterton, scjipo) and the teachjng staff is palpably wearied. The Napoleonic announcement "Inow coiisilt you k termt of tk Ad," is almost an unnecessary finale to the letter. The Board issues a ukase, and if the Masterton School Committee is not agreeable, why, in terms of the Act the Masterton School Committee can be ignored after the formal notice lias been presented. Apparently the Board is now moving teachers about from one school to another, wjtb little regard to either the expressed or unexpressed wishes of Committees. The letter we have quoted is about the funniest consulting epistle we ever read. Such a mandato would hardly bo Rdjycssed to any local body which was not deompd {o bo a more ciphor, and wo quite approve of tho protest mado by tho Masterton Jjflmmiltee. This bo,dy howovcv much it has differed pn certain questions has always beon loyal to the teaching stuff' and earnest in its offorts to strengthen it. Successive committees have, in coiijunetiou with tho Board! Built ft strong teaching staff, and now tho'labor of years 'appears to be lightly impaired by a curt ejiot from the' Board, ' There is;' of course, another side to tho question.!' The iiicomo of "tho Bloard has boon're-

ducodand a cortain amount of retrenchment has "alsolutely to be effected. ' That. Masterton must in some shape or form Bubmit to the pruning knife is not unreasonable,, but if the Board Lad pointed out to the Committee that a slight reduction in the staff was necessary and recom mended the one most convenient to its favorable consideration thore "would probably have been nodiffionlty. But instead of doing this the Board takes a master away sends a pupil teacher to take his place, and writes to the Committee saying " I now consult you in terms of tho Act," If the Board had written "I now mult you in terms of tho Act" the communicution would have been equally straight to the point. Wo must however bear in mind that tho Masterton School has received for a series of years a cordial support from the Education Board, and that many members of that body are known to bo warm friends of this school. We do not for a moment believe that the members of tho Board intend to treat Masterton with other than the courtesy which they have invariably displayed towards this town. The evil perhaps lies in the system. Under the Act the powers of Committees are very limited, and virtually tho Boards .take pretty much the whole control of the schools upon themselves. It is a way they have I mid, though bylaw, Committees must be consulted, the opnsultation has bocome in practice a farce. We are not sure but that one Board of Education for. the Colony would not administer the schools of New Zealand as efficiently and more economically than the present district Boards. With one Board the local control would be more effective than it is now. All the more important duties of a School Committee are now virtually assumod or usurped by the district boards, but under a central board for tho Colony the Committee would necessarily hecome a responsible body and havo considerable powers vested in it.

Tenders aro invited by Mr J. Wilson, ot tho Waipoua Flax Mills for cutting five hundred tons of flax.

The Minister of Mines says that Mahakipawa is not a poor man's diggings. The following are tho winning numbers in the Donno ly Art Union drawn on Saturday night last:—l,63; 2.114; 3.195;4, a5;6,156;(1,104; 7,80; 8, 53.

The Wellington Woollen Company are increasing tho nuinbor of their lonmi and adding to their buildings at Pctoue.

Mr F. H. Wood holds at Groytown on Saturday Oct, *0 an important auction sale of now and second bend household furniture, produce, andgencral merchandise

Tho Daluficld, Taraia!ii,nnd Greytovn factories, have agreed to turn out an oxpert cheese uniform in color, quality, and weiyht. Co-operation like this will do wonders for dairy farmers.

The Rev. James Patorson of Wellington, officiated at the Prosbylerian Church Masterton, on Sunday morning and evening, and at Woodlands in the afteruuon. There were largo attendances on each occasion.

Tho Post does not object to tho prosent Ministry retaining office for another eighteen months, if their doing so is a necessary condition to the completion of tho Manawatu Gorge Railway. It ia.however to be threo years before this work is accomplished, and thirty wo presume, before the link botwoen Eketahuna and Woouvillo.is ccnstiucte.d,

The Municipal debt of Em/laud averages £b' 6s, per head, but there are towiiß where it is threo times this amount, as in Birmingham and Manchester; while in Bradford it is £'22 llis. Tho total amount of the debts of tho local authorities outstanding at tho cud of ISBS-6 was £178,207,068. This, however, in eludes tho cost of waterworks and gasworks, and indeed, of all the great undertakings that distinguish municipal life at tho present time. Mr A. W. Cavo, ol Te Ore Ore, proprietor of that Bplendid thoroughbred, sue, Piscatorious, mukes in another column a series of proposals which will cmsoquitoa flut'or amongst brw'dors. Ho offers a ton pound prize fur the host foal from Piscatorious exhibited next year at tho Masterton Pastur I Show, ami twenty pounds for the best yearling shown oil tho samo ground in tho following yoar. Not content with this he offers fivo pounds as alcontributiou to a sweepstake to bo awarded noxt year to tho best foal from any sire in the district. The last offer should put tho ownors of.othor stud horses on their mettle, for it evidently indicates a conviction on the part of Mr Cavo that tho Piscatorious progeny will carry off tho purso. Tho offer of a sweopstjikes is no idle challenge on tho p;irt of Mi Cave for he has lodged tho money for it in our hands, and it remains to bo seen whether other owners have sufficient confidence in theiv horses to cover it.

Captain Kidd commenced hiscareorof crime at Calicut in tho Madras Presidency nf Iniia, Ho began by protonding to keep in check the buccaneers who had their rendezvous in Madagascar; but ho soon throif off tho mask, robbed right and left, and eventually put himself at tho head of fivo ships armed with 180 guns, After a short but brill ant career he returned to St Mary's Isl.nd. off and partitioned his gains among bis crew, and thence sailed for tho West Indies. He was, however, arrested in Amorica by ono of the noblemen (Lord Bellaunmt) who had helped to fit him out on his first legitimaio enterprise, was tried, condemned, and hanged in chains at Tilbury on May 23,1701, In the early part of tho century a number of pigs belonging to a corporalo town strayed or were stolen Irom a moi r that adjoined the town, At the annual meeting of tho burgesses tht Mayor, who was snmowhat illiterate, expatiated on various irregularities that had taken placoin the borough, alluding especially to tho short measure gi von by publicans to their customers, and finished his oration by devising a remedy for tho two principal ovils complained of, " I now advise snid he, " that tho pi« 6 belonging to us corporators bo marked in future with a large K for corporation, and that all the pints and quarts used by tho publicans be stamped with H for ale and S for cider, so that people may bo suro that they get thole proppr monsu.ro," The Mayor's advice was adopted. Nottingham is the prince of goose fairs, and it originated thus :-A fathor had for somo reason or other brought up his threo sons in total seclusion, so complctly indeed that they had never set eyes on anyono of the femalo sex. On arriving at, manhood he took them to tho October fair, promising to buy each of them anything that ho might select. Tliey gaied around, asking tho names of ajl they saw, and on beholding somo comoly Nottingham, maidens working they demanded what they wore, Alarmed at tho eagerness of their enquires the old man replied. ''Pophl theso silly things aro geese, whereupon all threo instantly exclaimed," 0 dear father, buy me a goose, Mr McOalniont, a miner. of considerable experience hoth in tho colonios.nnd at homo, has visited tho scene of operations at tho Fomridyc and reports very v'oryfavorably,on flip indications of a pavablo bed of coal'. He jus made many valuablo suggestions which will bo oan'iod out by the Directors. Tho present drive will bo continued for a further depth of from sixty f o ono hundred feot andhorso power will bo used Instead of manual labor, which will incrcaso the rate of! spoil considerably: Whore tho presont drive is being made ho considers lo bo on the outsido, anil a recommendation b? hjm that a drive should be mado on the W of tho hill Where jjo consists tho'maintop to'bo situated,' will bo carried out as soon'as the' depth'fixod upon at tho prcjoot site is reached. '

The Frisco'mail arrived in Auckland, per a.s. Mariposa this morning. Colonial candles have increased in price, the lowest quotations at the Wellington factories being Tho fixtures for the weok at tho Thoatro Koyal appear in another column. Hiccough is a spasm of tho diaphragm caused by flatulency, indigestion, or acidity, It may be relieved bytaking a tabltspoonful of vinegar, or by the sudden application of cold, also by two or three mouthfuls.of cold water, eating a small piece of ice, taking a pinch of snuff, or anythine that excites counteraction, Messrs Lowes and lorns announco a series of6alos fortius month tho dates Wing as follows:—Friday 19th, salo of 'contractor's plant at Mangamahoe, Saturday October 20, furniture teat tho auction mart, and October 24 thuir fortnightly stock sale. A seasonable announcement appears in another column. Hitherto shearers have -experienced great difficulty in selecting a pair of shears the exact strength suitablo to the class of wool they aro shearing, or their hand, but this is now done away with, Mesßrs M. Cuselberg & Co. have shown us this morning a pair of Ward & Payne's new patent shears called "Theßegulator." By turning a small screw it is possible to adjust the shears to the exact streiiKth required. In the public-house tally or notched stick of former days, P stood for pints and Q for quarts, and the usual caution given to the ale-wife when making out the score was not to confuse the two together and charge quarts for pints. In this way tho Baying " Mind your P's and Q's" originated. Ah anecdote is related of tho celebrated Father Burke. On ,oho occasion, when ho_ had preached' an eloquent sermon, hia friends gathered around him in tho afternoon and said, "Oh Fathor Burke, what a magnificent Bermon you preached." He replied, "That is exactly what the devil has been whispering in my ear evor since I finished.

A lump of Obsidian found in a Maori paddock in tho Masterton district, while it was boing ploughed has boon received at tho Museum. Obsidian, a hard and brittle mineral or native glass with remarkable vitreous lustre, is found on volcanic situations. According to Pliny, by whom this mineral was lint described it is named after one Olisidim, by whom it was found in Ethiopia, The proposal is mooted for working up a petition to havo the Woudvill district declared a county next session. The idea is to have tho road boards merged into the proposed county and so have only one governing body. Wo do not believo in too Btiiall counties, but consider that if the Wood >ille and Dane vii ke Hidings joined thoiMv Pahiatua County we should havo a really good county. If the Danevirko peoplo should be averae to this, then it might uvea bo found advisable that Woodville alono shuuld join the Pahiutua County.—Exammor. Personal motivos aro imputed by the Woodvillo paper to tho Councillor who opposed the petition of the Woodvillo Tiwumea settlers, as tho foUowW extinct will show :-" Councillor Von Hiidon was not very particular as to lauiß in opposing tho petition of tho Woodville-Tiraumea settlors. He said tl.o object of tho Paliiatua Country being furmod was to save oxponse. Was it really ? It looks like it when a certain geiitloinan has tho clerkship in view at £2OO a year, and the prospective chairman thinks they should support the dignity of tho chair by a reasonable allowance for oxpeoses. A nice family party is prepared to divide tho loaves and fishes, But had not Cr Von Itcden a personal motive for his actions ? He lias a section of land ou the Pahiatua Bond leading to tho Block, Does he not want tho Tiraumea rates for tho benefit of his property at the expense of tho sottlers who pay thoin ?" From the m-There w perhaps no tonic offered to tho peoplo that possesses as much real intrinsic valuo as Dr. Soulo's American Hop Bitters. Just at this season of the year, when tho stomach needs an appetiser, or the blood noods purifying, the cheapest and best remedy is Dr, Soule's American Hop Bitters. An ounco of prevention is worth a pound of cure; don't wait until you are prostrated by a disease that may tnke months for you to recover in.— Boston Globo.

Woman s Wisdom.-" She insists that it is (if more importanco that her family shall bo kept in full health, than that alio should have all tho fashionnblo drosses ami styles of tho times. She therefore soes to it that each member of her family is supplied with enough of Dr. Soulo'b American Hop Bitters at tho first appearance of ill-health, to prevent a .fit of sites with its attendant oxpense, care and anxiety, All women should excrciso their wisdom in this way,' -Now Haven Palladine, Gciitlomoii will bo pleased to know that our selection of new tweed ci.atings, suitings, and vestings for tho present season have opened out unusually well, and that the choice is move varied, and the worth better, than any previous occasion at Tc Aro Ho'jao, Wellington. Wc have etrivcu to merit tho confidence and support of our patrons by employiog only tin- be.-t available talent, both as lo 0 .r cultor and our torge stall of tailors, and al-o by using ouly the best mat rials aad trimmings . No wonder, then, timt our elforls havo succcedf d in atU'actiug a st> ady and increasing (low of customers to tho 1 adoring Department at To Aro House, Wellinpton. As.all orders are executed under able supervision, oa our own premises, gentlem n c»i> rely on tho first-class q ialitv nl all our work, an I as our cutter is admittedly a past master of his ait, the fit of ovory garment cm be pisitivolyguiirautecdat To Am Hone, Wollingion. Our charges m m owy oaso the lowest commtib e with ready gund materials nod workmanship, aid we respectfully solicit a vWtfrom ilmsogoitlcmon who have i.ofc as jet patroni-ed th* 'Ja'toiing Department at Tc Aro House, Wellington. l'atterni and solf-uMsurcnient charts fonvarded free by post on applicaiiou to To Aro louse

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