The Bruce Herald. Arrectis auribus adsto. Spero meliora. TOKOMAIRIRO, OCTOBER 26, 1894.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2624, 26 October 1894, Page 2

The Bruce Herald. Arrectis auribus adsto. Spero meliora. TOKOMAIRIRO, OCTOBER 26, 1894.

The developments in connection with the Waimumu School incident are absolutely astounding. But for the outspoken utterances of Mr Milne the chairmen of the school committee we could not have believed that any sane man would have dared, upon hia own responsibility only, to have committed the members of the committer, of which he waa secretary, and the people of tbe entire district, to which he belongs, to such an expretsion of intolerance, a gross violation of Eocial ethics and the commonest rules of hospitality. Air Milne, the chairman, and other correspondents in the « Standard,' utterly repudiate the senti ments of Mr Davidson, the secretary. The writers are most indignant aDd affirm tbat several families would have bern pr°pared to have accommodated Miss Wall until (separate accommodation had been provided for her. One writer, a Mr B<ioth, who haa resided many years in the Waimumu district, delares he haa always found the people both tolerant and hospitable. In his 1 letter Mr Milne say? " I very much re gret tbat Mr Davidson should have overstepped the bounds of decency in writing such a letter quite unauthorised by tho committee, no meeting having been held and no instruction given bim to take such unwarrantable action." "We are more tban pleased that the Waimumu district is thus purged of the contempt into which it had been unjustly plunged by the action of one man at whom, however, the finger of acorn will Jong be pointed. Society bas outgrown th© narrow bigoted prejudices of wbich he is appatently an exponent.