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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 213, 10 September 1886, Page 3

The report on the Girls High School presented the Board of Education today recommended that Miss E. G. Wallace be appointed second assistant teacher, and Miss R M, Matthews 3rd assistant teacher at present salary : also that Miss _Ellen Simpson's salary be increased from £S0 to £1(0 per annum, that Annie C. Morrison's scholarship terms be extended, and that_ no appointment be made to fill the position of French mentor vacated by Mr Villeval. The report was adopted. Our weekly market price-list will appear to morrow. The gum market continues firm and active. Butter and eggs are quoted at last weeks' rate*. Generally the alterations from previous quotations are of slight importance. The members of the Auckland Athemoum are reminded that thi3 is tho evening for the usual fortnightly meeting. The subject for consideration this evening U tho popular one of the desirability of" Imperial Federation," Mr Burton has undertaken to open the debate in the negative. His opponent, Mr G. Cozens, will, we fancy, have the sympathies of the majority of the meeting or, bis side. ' It is not often that the irrepressible namo of Harris so intimately associated with that of Gamp becomes a subject of amusement in the prosy region of the Resident Magistrate's Ciiurt. Yet such was the case yesterday in the action of Dennos.v. Potter, which was brought to recover the sum ot £4, the balance due on tho sale of a bicycle. Mr Jackson Palmer, in defence, setup that it bad been sold to a Mr Harris, and not to his client. A gifted gentleman of the long robe then brought his poetic genius to bear upon the story, and the stern " silence ' of the Court Bailiff was evoked to quiet the hilarity which the effusion occasioned in its round the table. Mr E. W. Burton, who appeared for the plaintiff, in crossexamination of the defendant elicited that the plain'iff might not have heard of tho übiquitous Harris, which caused some further merriment. It also appeared that 1 payments on account were made by tbo defendant in his own name. After bearing counsel on both sides judgment woo given for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, £i, with £16s costs,