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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 476, 23 April 1894, Page 2

We trust fathers of familiea will attend at the main school this evening and record their votes for the men who have managed their school well in the past, and are to bo trusted to. look well after it in the future. A Bantam Political Assooiation in this town, in want of a job, has decided to run the old men out and put in new blood of the "right colour." Almost every prominent liberal in the town has been askpd to stand,, and it is to the credit of many of them that tbey have refused to mix up politico with school affairs. "Of course, the guid ing spirit of the Bantam Association lias only to go on asking to gel a suf ficienoy of candidates. The liberal J.P.'a were first of all put under requisition, but as they did notjn some instances respond, men of less preten' tion were importuned. When the Bantam Association cannot get its colonels and captains to bo its champions it tries for noncommissioned officers, We heard that on Saturday it had worked down to full privates.

The late Consti»Me Cashion was,a herol On Saturday evening h«;was suffering fromjreadly spaarn3 and consulted a doctor, • who _gave biiri,afti necessary di/ections, but he did not obey them, /it was his turn for night dutyj and tjie old constable would not' shirk his |Wk. A brother officer 1 offered to take his turn, but hn replied that he would.bo as well out of doors is in, so off: he went on his beat, to die in harness] About one o'clock in the morning the throes of the mortal agony, beoame too severe for even hisiron endurance, and be went homo.

to hiß family to pass away before the dawn of day. flont.table Casliion was ,an officer who understood Lis duty thoroughly, and peifotowd -if oonj sctentioosly, :He was respected and trusted by every man, soman and ohiid in <be community. Men of bis stamp aro rare even in the police force. In Misterton he will be missed for many a day.

This.is, St George's Day!, St, George, was a young and handsome prince, who Jived in Eastern climes about sixteen hundred years ago. He had a good time of it, for he was lucky enough to save a King's daughter I from 'the maw of some antiquated alligator, und from lint day to this his picture has been in evidence, showing the gallant Knight Hiining his lance at the reptilian monster. He never set his foot on Englaud, and at the era in which he lived the ancient Britons were too primitive to appreciate his beauty and powers. But because he hilled the alligator, or it in believed that he did slay the animal, all banks are closed to-day, and bank clerks rejoice and are right glad. Tho 1 ord Mayor of London too, who seems a bit "off," wants everybody tomako the day a holiday, and when we see people at emoting to jam extra holidays into us after this fashion, we begin to wish that St. George had died young and that the alligator had survived.