The Bush Advocate. Published Tuesday,Thursday,and Saturday. SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1888.

Bush Advocate, Volume II, Issue 90, 1 December 1888, Page 2

The Bush Advocate. Published Tuesday,Thursday,and Saturday. SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1888.

Emulation is all very well in its way, but why does the Daily TeleV graph not remember the great error ©f most human emulation is that VKWS -are most anxious to produce effects without inquiring into -• . causes ; :■ most anxious, :nlay be, jto write original articles, without that <■ mental introspection to ascertain •',.,- whether .the stuff is there to coin-. \ pose them. ; Prudence and caution .".'-•, are by Shakespeare held to be the „.„ typical .characteristics separating ; fools,* 'and we do wish j . lilia^r^r |te,own;;sake, ; the Telegraph of those • angelio qualitiea^wheii it penned its ■?SsSt'msssi articled oii bin attitude ..,.-I»warMith!eVEiucation Board and ' ■ $ts« a&cers in7regari to the proposed a^ditibns'ito^ ph,e !Dan|eyirk;e school. . 1 r toV ijb'mU^plaini to the "meanest °' "capacity,?* even that of the Telegraph, ... before #e^havei finished what we -• Jfiaye to . say, that last nightf the ?^^actic^l" ; men on tHe committee pitted themselves „ " against the wide experience 1 : of the Board's. . . Architept, and; of,, their Inspector," scored* every point possible, and remaittthe victors—that being their only reward for their zeal and care. The Telegraph,-. without a blush, ,„; accuses us of) being ignorant, deliberately ..erroneous,, and jpf c vinoing an utter disregard for truth; We should muchly like to know why the Telegraph .wishes to be considered ihe oriteridn 'of truth ? ' Hath it forgotten its_past history? Is it t .iiOij ; . ack.no wledged J?y- one and all that to Be ignorant, deliberately erroneous,.and^unmindful of truth is the Telegraph's own peculiar function, and that in these three espeVcial qualities 'it * 8 without a paragon ? All we said in our previous leader we repeat, and we are pleaseditb see that the architect consulted with /tHe Inspector, be- • ' cja.use last night tho Inspector agreed • H to t*aye< altered every point in our leader we touched on-?— without con- ■■• suiting the 'architect. The " utterly ; unimportant' matter " ! *as regards :the ? erroneous, dimensions' of the existing old school, room was last -._. night. found - to ; be jmost important, and' as the contract has been signed the only way tp f ol)viate the blunder jand.le^ave the. addition its proposed ■width is to block itp' the .22 inches, andjputa new door in on the other side, 4 whioh . has been agreed to. The infant school;, chimney is to be remedied jf npifc shifted, the chimney '... on plan of hew. room is to be put on • Athe opposite ;side, the. desks shewn tjier^cp ax? tofbe put on the opposite sidej the. are to be \ altered to correspond with those in the old room, which , on the plan . they. dp not ; vthe. new desks shewn Bn the plan to, b 4 e placed in the class room are hoifop be made, and, to gi^eja lee entrance -;to the school, , t;hf -door x>f Ijtihe" ojd the ";' wiiidb w therein ' "are to change , : places.;. jS.o^that the aiiTebed plan :% ifae committee last night will naye'fo be 'still further altered, and if the "^contract had not been signed we somehow fancy the "practical" committee would have ■ not foregone one jot that it Contended f° r «' We allude to fne position of the new room. Now What does the Telegraph think of the foregoing for oriticism by praofcioal men? Wo said that if the- Board's designs were literally oarried out a, bungle must ensue, and that this must, was no might, will, --We are quite sure,' be evident to the capaoity of the Telegraph, ' eVen though it is below the mean. The, .sweetly tripping sentenoes of the Inspector in 1887 and 1885 on the #c., of school buildings',^ will,' we imagine, if the Norse wood School Committee do their duty, be fully interpreted at the next Board meeting. At present one wall is kept from falling inwards by a huge boom running well on to the floor of the school and securely spiked, while the cupboards, lining, &c, will receive due treatment, we are sure, at the committee's hands. This building, our readers must remember, has only been erected this past six months. Eegarding the tenders our only inaccuracy was printing Norsewood for Ormondville, distant from each other, we may tell the Telegraph? :on\y four miles ; so that saying Mr Maynard's tender came from Norsewopd instead of Ormondville is quite excusable, as we , thought for the moment Mr Maynard: lived in -.the former place. The poor Post Office officials have to answer for a lot, and these tenders not being in time must now be put; in that lot. WS could say even more, but prefer for various reasons to leave the blame on the Post, Office, though ifc does not deserve it. In conclusion we advise the Telegraph not to try' to write original articles, nor use those contributed by the Board and its officials, but to stick to the paste pot*

Some few months ago we drew attention to the necessity that exists for the establishment of a monthly sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Danevirke. The want that was then felt has now become even more pressing. Wood.yills is crying out for a fortnightly pitting Hi the Court on account of the heavy pressure- of business, which it is found impossible to overtake at a sitting held once a month, and it is pointed out by the correspondent of the News that if a Court day were instituted at Danevirke it would be a great relief to the business of the "WoodviUe Court. It seems to us imperative that something should be done in the matter, and the fairest way to deal with the subject would be give the Danevirke people what they want — a monthly sitting at which they can transact business that at present they are compelled to prosecute at great inconvenience and loss of time and money through having to travel either to Ormondville or Woodvilie. A petition asking for the appointment of a Court day is now lying at the Advocate office for signature. The petition points out the growth of the town during the past few years, and its prospects of increase in the immediate future, and draws attention to the inconvenience the inhabitants labor under in the matter of recovery of debts due through the nearest places at which courts are held being 17 miles distant, and also that the Waipawa Resident Magistrate's office, to which litigants bringing their suits in Ormondville have to apply for summonses, is 40 miles away from Danevirke. It is clear that the trouble and expense consequent upon the smallest litigation, are greatly increased owing to the existing state of things, and, as a matter of fact justice is practically denied in cases where the amount in dispute is not large, as creditors prefer to lose their money rather than go to the expense of attending at office and courts and bringing witnesses to sittings so far distant. We trust that the people will call af; our office and sign the petition so that it may be forwarded to the Minister for Justice 1 at an early date.