The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 28 April 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1891.

, The men in the community who bear the highest character, who have received the best education, and are esteemed as the worthiest, are none too good for a School Committee. An ' able teacher is doubly strong if he > has at his back a Committee so constituted, Unfortunately parents , do not always realize that it is to the advantage of their children that the • best men in the community should serve the school, and the selection they have been wont to make in the past has been a positive disconrage--1 ment for really first class men to come forward. We must therefore be contented if we secure under these circumstances a fairly good Committee. We had, too, hoped to have been able to test in Masterton the working of tbe new regulations with respeet to tbe day ballot box, but through a grave oversight on the part of the late Committee the box placed in the Theatre Royal was somewhat 1 of a farce. It was the intention of the Act that a schoolmaster should, as a matter of convenience, countersign voting papers, and the Committee : should have arranged for a teacher to , be with the ballot box, so that votes might have been recorded m the manner contemplated by tbe law. The neglect to do this made the ! process of voting highly complicated andinconvenient, and partly defeated the plain intention of the measure. With Buch drawbacks we may be well satisfied with the result of the election. The best men on the list of candidates were returned, and most of the Knights of Labour candidates gravitated towards the bottom of the poll. With regard to the troub e between the Town Lands Trust and the late Committee, we think it is about time that it was allowed to resit A new Committee has been elected, and possibly there may be before long a change in the personnel of tbe Trust. With a little forbearance on both sides both bodies can, we feel sure, work amicably together for the benefit of education in this town. Mr E. Feist, who occupied the chair last evening, had no light task thrown upon his shoulders in interpreting the new regulations, andin dealing with a number of ingenious quibbles which were raised. However, by his customary display of common sense and impartiality he got through bis work with marked success. With respect to tbe school accounts they appear to hare got into a chronic state of muddle, and one of the first duties of the new i Committee should be to straighten' I them out. Twelve months ago they . were unreliable, and now probably they are still further involved. The late Committee ought to have < besu able to explain them, but we' should have.been very much surprised if they bad proved equal to this duty.

" Seyenty-Gve head of cattle reoently sent to theLongburn Freezing works averaged 8771bs net. The Rev. W. E. Pais* has returned from his trip to Auckland and is, we are glad to learn, much improved in health.

The fortnightly meeting of the Maßterton Borough Council will be held this evening.

Our readers are reminded of the grand musical festival to be held in the Drill Hall this evening. The census returns for the Borough of Feildina show the population to be about 1600.

Owing to harm done to the stock of Dr. Hoaking, notice is given that any person trespassing on his Waihi and Weraiti runs with guns or dogs will be prosecuted.

We understand that those taking part in the Musical Festival at Masterton intend reproducing the entertainment at Greytown next week.

It is stated that the population of Featherston has increased during the past five years at the rate of one per month.

Police constables are.now engaged making enquiries as to the accommo dation for labourers and station hands engaged on sheep stations. It is stated that a pood many settlers in Southland will be compelled to use their cereal products for feeding stock this year instead of sending it to market in the form of grain. Mr. Fitzgibbons, for 35 years Town Clerk of Melbourne, haß been appointed Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works of that city. Sergeant-Major Bezar has reported himself to Colonel Webb in Dunedin, and has entered upon his new duties.

Mr W. W-. McOardle has been chosen by the new Committee of the Eketahuna school as a member of the Wellington Education Board.

Messrs A. Matthews, W. E. Bidwill, J, Martin, and H. J. Hume haye been elected wardens of the Featherston Road Board.

The Education Act as interpreted by some people is peculiarly anomalous. For instance, the term " householder" was made to apply last evening to a young gentleman who has no qualifications whatever as such, being neither a parent or guardian, or occupier of a dwelling-house. The mile safety bicycle championship of Australia was raced on Saturday, when Busst proved the winner, Eudd being secoud, and Greenwood third. Busst won easily. Time, 2min 55seca.

Rather a remarkable accident occurred at Ormondville the other day. A lad shot at a pigeon some 20 feet above the ground. The pigeon dropped, and bo did a wounded weasel, evidently hit by the Bame discharge. The Wanganui Herald is responsible for the statement that the Government has deciied to institute a system of penny postage within the Colony. Mr 0. Hall, of Woodville, recently resigned his seat as a' member of the Hawke's Bay Land Board, and was replaced by Mr \V. Carlile. For some unaccountable reason—probably in the interests of Liberal economy—Mr Hall has been re-appointed to the Board ' A correspondent at Mauriceville writes: —"Thieving is being practiced here wholesale. JSo less than six hundred feet of timber was stolen from a small contract recently. This is exceedingly annoying. Builders when tendering for contracts should include losses by petty theft in their estimates, A box of raisins has also been stolen from the railway station. It is, with such a state of things prevailing, positively unsafe for an honest man to be seen out at night.

Dr Youll, the Melbourne city coroner, states that the forms of suicides go in cycles. Last year it was the fashion tc shoot in the mouth, this year it is putting the head on the railway lino. We understand (says the Chronicle) that the electors at the Hawera end of the Egmont electorate are not satisfied with their share in the lecent banquet to Mr R. C. Bruce at Marton. They intend, we hear, to ask him to accept something more substantial in the way of a testimonial. Trie proposal is being taken up warmly. It has not yet been decided what shape the testimonial will take, but :t will most likely be a library.

We are glad to learn that oursportsmen and others can now have stagsheads and birds mounted in the highest style, as John Jacobs, the professional preserver of birds, fish, and animals, has arrived here from London- Highest price given for huias, crows, New Zealand quail, and other birds, stags heads and skins. Feathers cleaned, dyed and curled, fur skins tanned anddressed, rabbit skins made into rags, bullock's horns polished and mounted in the highest style. Orders left at Mr F. Meenken's, close to Bank of New Zealand, Carterton, or Mr Catt's, Hair Dresser.—Advt.

L. J. Hooper & Co., of the Bon Marche warehouse, notify the Jarge.-t and most complete stock of general drapery and clothing in the Wairarapa. The firm have always held the premier position for keeping the most fashionable and best classes of goods procurable, together with moderate prices ; and this season their reputation will be fully sustained. Any of our readers requiring fashionably drapery or clothing should visit the Bon Marche.. The following goods are now open for inspection:— French and English millinery, trimmed hats and bonnets, birds, feathers, ladies' and children's ulsters, ladies' jackets and mantles, corsets and underclothing, new dress goodß in the following velveteens, Baked cheviots, cheviot checks. Dress tweeds, real Scotch homespuns, diagonal cloths, cashmeres, foulle serges and ealamines, &c. Winter goods and hosiery in all the best makes, fur and fur trimmings, &c. Dressmaking on the premise 3 by first-class modestes. L.J, Hooper and Co., the Bon Marche.