RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1291, 7 October 1880, Page 2

RAGLAN.

The settlera arc very busy at present on thpir farms, ami if tho frost Aor.s not '■et m theio is overy possibility of their h.iviir; a g.>od harvest. Tho Education Board of the pi ovine, as i.v* as rcgirds Raglan, seems to bo indifferent a-« to how matter-! are earned o)i hero. A* in :ill jn jticc there ought to b.: an education committee <f (-even, w'iohms ther>"> are only throe now nml no chairman. There must b« a ssrew lonsj somewhere. jRy-the-by talking of education, thr-re is a splendid opening for a good private school m Raglan, .is the way in v/hich educational matters have been conducted for sotic time is a dis grace to the nineteenth cenfcuiy. The in ijorit}' ot Uiildi< j n <ue e/ih r educated at home or hcnt to Auckland, becaub. 1 the parents hnve lo^t .ill confidence in the present t j.ielier, a ]>c) son who never having suejiseded in any other \nnsuit, -was co'i^nlcied by theC'enti<il 'Jo.ud Oi Kluc-ition to hi good enough for i country schoolmaster. 80 long ;ts the Bond ot E lue.ttion onl\ su])p]\ \acducies from motives of charity. lam af.a.d our boisttd refown in education ■will l;o a failure. I would o tggot the e->t,vblij,h-nient )f a Xounil School, wheie teat hei 3 aro regularly tunned, and only allow od to take ch.vge of a school when they ha\ c taken then pioperdegiees. Any suitable pyusoii opening a good private school in R igl m wouhl rind that tlrj majoiity of the Waikato settler.-, would j,end thenboys to it, being remarkably quiet, iree horn vice, and particularly healthy. The late self-constituted Queen of Raglan has p:iid tiie township ,\ farewell visit, much to the satisfaction of its inhabitants, not the slightest marks of regret being .shown for the loss 01 such an ungrateful Queen. Even the Maoris said " kaupai " at her departure. I am becoming a convert to " proteotion principles." It is tho only way to l put a st>p to the cut-thioit free trade policy which at present exists. Almost overy farmer and tradesman iv Raglan is his own storekeeper, carpenter, farmer, butcher, baker, shoemaker, tailor, doctor, lawyer, and chimney-sweeper , the consequence is that none- of these trades is properly porformrd. I think these businesses weie much bettor performed when tho apprenticeship system was in vogue. The people were then .sure that their work was properly done, were protected from the swindles of imposters who imagined themselves hand tradesmen. Until we return to the old system of apprenticeship, I believe we shall gradually degenerate as workmen, and this, is one reason why other European natives are so greatly getting- ahead of us, because they still continue to apprentice their boys and keep up distinct subdivision of labour. An old native woman has just died from the bursting 1 of an internal tumour, thus verifying the prediction of Doctor Honeyman, of Auckland, who, when consulted, told her that when the tumour burst it would kill her. It burst last night, and she died immediately.— (Correspondent.)

There is nothing fresh from the Temora Goldfield, and latest dates sUte that several miners are leaving 1 the Hold for Sydney in consequence of the scarcity ef water. The Sydney papers advise those at . a distance to wait for more favourable news before givmar up .situations for the purpose of gold -seek ii^gTli ere is an over plus of libqi^r at jM^sedii ! in the groi^nxl. Natural cavei'iia— one being COO ft. in lo.ugth-~h.ave been discovered near Wells