CORRESPONDENCE. KIHIKIHI SCHOOL.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1490, 21 January 1882, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. KIHIKIHI SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — The members of the Kilukihi School Committee, in their preface to the letter from the secretary of the Board of Education, inserted in your issue of Tuesday, ai*e, it seems to me, like those unfortunate devils who Milton informs us sat apart upon a hill and reasoned upon all sorts of tilings which it was impossible for them to understand. Why, letters of similar import have been received at the same time by numerous school committees in the Waikato for the removal of teachers against whom there have been no complaints whatever, but there are, it is well-known standards of classification for pupils under the education code, and why should there not be stations and places of more or less importance in young communities for school teachers ? I take it that, the board has not indorsed the action of the committee in this instance, for, I believe, Mr Matheson dismis«al was persistently insisted upon by them. — I am &c, An Ixitio.

A recent visitor to Longfellow says that the poet is not so white from age as his portraits icpresent him. His hair ami beard have dark lines, and his moustache has a tawny amber shade of the varnished chestnut of youth. His blue eyes are bright and his cheeks ruddy. A Story of "Dizzy."— James Lowther, late Secretary for Ireland, piques himself on his power of imitating his late chief's (Loul Beaconsfield's) tone and manner, as do mnny others, his strong peculiarities having invited imitation. One of his " Dizzy" stories is that, when the Premier came into office in 1874, Lord Rosslyn was named for Master of the Buckhounds, being a good sportsman and good-looking, the only objection being that "he swore like nobody since the .army of Flanders." " Swears, does he?" said Dizzy; "then we will make him Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland." And he did.