The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1886. NEWS AND NOTES.
The Central School New Plymouth is to be closed for a time owing to the prevalence ot mumps among the scholars.
The following nre additional entries Jos. McCarthy, Handicap Hurdles ; E. King, ami Joe. Quin, Publican's Handicap.
The Hon W. Holleston has secured 05 bushels of bavle.v to the acre tins year. " Farmer Bill" bas hacl time this year to look after his crops.
The newly elected members of the Taranaki Education Board — Mrs. Richmond, Miss HeywooJ and Mr. Andrews— took their seats on Wednesday. Mr. Kelly was re-elected chairman of the Board for the ensuing year.
The master of the Slratiord school has written urging the Education Board to push on the contract for enlarging the school. The aacoaimodatiou provides only for 60, while on the date ot the lettev the attendance was 88, and 107 was the number on the roll.
A recent issue of the Napier Telegraph bad the following : — A lawyer can go great lengths iv Coui't, bnt he ha.s tha &dv&nt&2& of knowing what line he cannot cross. Today Mr. West, who appeared for two of his boys, charged with stone-throwing, asked the prosecutor a question, and the answer not being satisfactory, he said. "You are a liar." Tlie wo/ds were promptly withdrawn on a threat of committal for contempt of Court.
That the Scotch are a real live people g-oes without saying. The wonderful progress mane hy Seotlaar) diirinq the last , forty years speaks %-olunaes in favor of tlie vitality of its children. In 1841 the population of Scotland was about two millions and a half, and it is now nearly four millions. According to the well-known statistician, Mr. M. G. Mulhall, Scotland possesses more wealth for population than England, and though so poorly gifted by nature, she ranks as one ot the richest countries of the world. "We may," says Mr. Mulhall, " search European anna's since the time of Alexander of Macedon, and we shall find nothing to equal the vise in Scotland during the past, forty years." It is also a remarkable fact that the criminal convictions in Scotland since 1840 have declined nearly 50 per cent., resulting in the closing during the same period of sixteen prisons for want of occnpants.
A special meeting of the New Plymouth Harbor Board was held on Wednesday to consider the new loan bill, those present being Messrs. Bayly, Caringion, Connett, King-, Marchant, Shnctteworth, and Yorke. An outline oi tbe tb-aft has ah-eady been published in these columns, and the following additions were made : — The area around Opunake bounded on the north by the Oao nui and on the south by the Taungatara, and containing some 36,000 acres to be exempt ; the rate payable by the New Plymouth electoral district to be double that of the other boroughs, and one-third more than in the rest of the district ; the six e)eetive zuembeis to be returned as follows — two by New Plymouth electoral district, two by Tavanaki nnd Clifton counties, one by Waimate and Ngaire lidings, and one by Hawera riding and borough. The amount of the proposed loan, and the rate of interest to be paid, to he printed on each voting paper.
The Wellington Evening Press has the following about (he Minaia monument :—: — A \ery interesting ceremony will take place at Manaia, on the West Coabt of the North Island, on Easter Monday. It will bo the unveiling of a statue erected to the noble fellows who were killed during the Mdcvi war on that Coast. The monument is of Aberdeen granite, and has cost about i'TUO, the money being taken from a fund made up of amounts received by Captain Heuipton, paymaster, some years ago, to the Colonial forces, from the sileq of stock taken as loot during the war, and sold by auctiun. The amount had been invested in trustees, and there being no special object to de\ote it to, Colonel Roberts and Major Gudgeon suggested the memorial. The suggestion was adopted, and the monument is now erected in the Octagon in the centre of the Manaia township. It has inscribed upon it the names of those to whom it is erected. The ceremony of of unveiling will be performed by the Hon. Mr. Ballance, Defence Minister. There wIU he no military display owing to tue volunteers being encamped at Wanganui, but it is expected a very large number of the surrounding settlers will be present.
The Star. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1886. NEWS AND NOTES.
Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1284, 15 April 1886, Page 2
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