NEWS AND NOTES
Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 45, 5 June 1880, Page 2
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NEWS AND NOTES
Postponement. We have been requested to notify that the sale of Mr. Maysmor's furniture, which was to take place this day, afc Feilding, haa been postponed for th c present. Ths Cathoi-io Chitech.— "We have been requested by the reverend pastor to intimate to the congregation of St. Patrick's Church, that Mass will be celebrated tomorrow at eight m the morning. The County Council. The ordinary I monthly meeting of the Manawatu County Council will be held on Monday. We presume the sitting will be a peaceful one, now that the battle of the rate has been lost and won. The Peopebty 'Tax.— Those unfortunates who have not been able to master the intricacies of the Property Tax, will be pleased to learn that the Depnty-Commissioner, Mr. Charles Crombie, will be m Palmer3ton next Thursday, and he will be prepared to afford information as to the manner of making returns required by the Act. The Borough Council Meeting. The usual monthly meeting of the Borough Council, which should have taken place on Wednesday night, did not take place, th«r© being no quorum. Although seven o'clock was the hour fixed, the three councillors present Fergusou, King, and Dungan waited for one hour and ten minuto«, but a? their number was not augmented, they wer© compelled to disperse without any business being done beyond adjourning the meeting until the following evening. Look on That Pioturb, and on This. There is food for i'# (lection m the fact that while Feilding is crying out for increased police protection, Constable Gillespie, with all his well-known powers of persuasion, has not been able to secure a tenant for the lock-up, which has been now cheerless fo* a fortnight. With his wellknown attention to the health of his lodgers, wo notice that the apartments have the doors open each day, so as to be thoroughly aired for the next comer. Vacancy m the Borough Council. As will be seen from our report of the meeting of the Borough Council, on Thursday night, there is now a vacancy m the Council. On that evening the resignation of Councillor Amesbury was reoeived and accepted with regret. The cause of the step is, we believe, the fact that Mr. Amesbury lives some miles out of town, and he found he "could not conveniently attend the meeting of the Council with the punctuality which he desired. Laziness v. Industby.-tA most singular judgment— ror rather the grounds upon which the judgment was based was given on Thursday at the local court. A butcher sued his employer for a week's wages m lieu of a week's notice, and a verdict was given for defendant upon the ground that as the plaintiff immediately obtained employment, he suffered no loss, and could not reoover for loss which had no existence. By that standard of logic, if the butcher had walked about with his hands m pockets, he would have been entitled to compensation, but as he was industriously inclined, well, he had to pay for it. We do not find fault with the verdict itself, but with the grounds upon which it was given. A Narrow Escape anii a Gallant Act. The danger. which we have so repeatedly referred to resulting from the train running through the town, was very nearly being exemplified m a shocking manner a few days ago. Two children belonging to Mr. Jordan, saddler, had just crossed the line as the ballast train was approaching, when unfortunately the hat of the younger was blown back up.on the track. The older of the two rushed to secure it, but by that time the engine was within twenty yards of the spot, and a horrible death seemed imminent, Amongst hoyror stricken and spell bound spectators was the father of the children, powerless to stir hand or foot, wuen Mr. Ayeri, the officer m charge of the goods shed, who luckily was m a truck close by, jumped down and dragged the child' from her perilous position, just as the engine shot by, tearing his jacket m the contact. Those who witnessed the occurrence speak m the highest terms of Mr. Avers' conduct, but for. whose coulnos^ an.d j courage., a human life would hare been sacrificed. A Sna^e m. the G-b,ass. The Viper of Marton has been aroused from its lo* thargic slumber, and is inclined to show its fangs once more, bufc learning experience from the bitter past, caution is combined, with cunning, and his Snakeship now appears as oue of the hooded genits. Ita last issue contain! a letter purporting to come from Palmerston —m which this journal is referred to m ornate language. 'Jfhe document has such a particular "fishy •flluvia fishy m more senses than one that we would have no difficulty m placing o,ur hand upon the writer, but for the piscatorial contamination which would be the re3ulfc. Times must be bad with, the Viper when it cannot afford to accept his halfguinea leading contribution, and the scribe has to sully the s»notum with, hatching bogus correspondence for the paper. In tha absence of its Knightly "Occasional Correspondent," the editor evidently imagines ib is his place to keep up, the. lupply of Billingsgate, and hence the conqoction bristles with Buch Chestorfieldian language as got his shirt out," old stickin-the-mud," and other choice expressions which aye sui generis. Even supposing, however^ that tjhe oomnjunicatipn. was really
what it purport* to be, the compliment is one of -whioh few would be proud to be considered a literary cess-pool for the shooting of rubbish whicbwould.be denied admittanc* elsewhere. Cailing a Spade Spade. Mr. Charles Hulke, the respected Dominie of the IFoxton Public School, certainly does not go behind the door to express his opinion, and apparently that opinion is not very favorable to Mr. Inspector Foulis. The following is a copy of Mr. Hulke's letter to the JWanganui Education Board, containing his impeachment of that gentleman I beg to protest against the report of Mr. Inspector Foulis being taken as cvi T dence of the state of the schools m this district, on the ground that during his examination of the schools he did not oonforin to the regulations of September 24, 1878. That places mentioned by him are not to be found on the maps, or iv the books m our sohools. That his historical facts differ materially from those contained m our text books. That jhis pronounciation of common English words is so bad that children cannot understand him. That slates were to carelessly marked that teachers can pay no attention to his classification or to his judgment. That m his report of the Foxton school he writes, The infants spelt and read fairly,' although he did not examine any of tham." Poor Foulis With all these shortcomings it is no wonder you fought shy of putting Mr. Fearnley, the head master of the High School, under the microscope." Mr. Foulia has hitherto applied the rod pretty smartly to the back of the poor usher wo wonder how he relishes o scarification
