KIRIKIRIROA DISTRICT SCHOOL. Election of Committee.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1311, 23 November 1880, Page 2

KIRIKIRIROA DISTRICT SCHOOL. Election of Committee.

In* accordance with advertisement in the Waikato Times, a meeting of honacholdera in the Kirikiriroa district was held at the house of Mr F. Thomas on Saturday evening last. Mr Thomas having been voted to the chair, read the instructions and correspondence from the Auckland Board, and the following gentlemen were elected as the first .School Committee : — Messrs F. Thomas, A. Swarbrick, H. Mullions, W. Chitty, J. Kenny, J. Crosby, and A. Primrose. The Committee subsequently met and elected Mr Thomas chairman, and Mr Chitty secretary and treasurer. The new schoolhousc and teacher's residence are progressing rapidly towards completion, and it is anticipated that all will be ready to open in January.

Am Emperor's Gratitudk. — Few moro graceful and touching tributes of Imperial gratitude for long service, faithfully and intelligently performed, have ever been paid by King to subject than that conveyed in the venerable German Emperor's autographic letter to Field Marshal Count Manteuffel, upon the celebration of that renowned warrior's jubilee as an officer of the Prussian army. After alluding in fervent terms to the Field Marshal's ♦'honorable and glorious career," the august writer says : "To few it is allotted, like you, so rare a mixture of the man of thought aud action. With unsurpassable loyalty you stood by my side when the organization of the army was aimed at. In my officer corps you have known how so to foster the old Prussian sense of duty and honor as to make it ready for serious times and capable of sustaining grievous trials. You have repeatedly led armies before the enemy, and always to victory, and you had richly deserved of the army to be favored with this highest and greatest distinction of the soldier. If your father promised to the King, on your entering the army, that you would strive to render your King and country useful services, so will my f ither and brother, reposing in God, as well as I myself, bear witness of it that this promise has been truly fulfilled. I will not to-day further exprsss my thanks for all your services, for this gratitude I always feel, and far beyond tha expression of any words. I should not like, however to permit this day to pass without gratifying you in some way, and this I may hooe to achieve in connection with the warm recollection of your first relation? to the service, by placing you nl« mite of the First Regiment of Dragoou Guards. And may you wear this, your fisst uniform, right long again. This I wish for you and yoars, and this I moat specially wish for u»y stlf aud tho arm/."