SECOND EDITION

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4361, 21 July 1885, Page 3

SECOND EDITION

The following judgment summonses were dealt with to - day :—Ash ton v. Gallagher (Mr Lee for plaintiff), £7 ordered to be paid at the rate of £2 per month, or in default ten days' imprisonment. Ruddock and Fryer v. Kingswell, £11 12s 4d ;Jlr Lascelles for plaintiffs). Defendant Avas ordered to pay the amount at fb.3 rate of £2 per month, commencing on 21st August, or in default ton days' imprisonment.

The chairman of the Education Board does not often get in a fix, but to-day he stumbled. He was reading the numbers by which the papers of the pupil teachers had been distinguished, and gave the numbers as tho ages, one young lady being described as fifty three years of age, instead of that being tho number of her paper.

Decisions -wore given in the following , civil cases this morning:—A. R. W. Lasccllcs v. Harold Bey, judgment for plaintiff for £2 Ss Sd, costs Gs. A\ r . Kuddick v. J. Kuhtze, claim £11 10s Gd, amount of dishonored cheque and interest on the same, Mr Lascelles for plaintiff, and Mr Carlile for defendant; plaintiff was non-suited, the defendant swearing that ho post-dated the cheque by one month, and thereby, not having properly stamped it as a bill of exchange, committed a breach of the Stamp Act; defendant was allowed only his solicitor's fee of ?,l Is in the way of costs.

The following tenders have been accepted by the Board of Education, during the past month :— Woodville, 11. A. Holder, £500 ; Ormondvillo, J. H. Maynard, £109 2s ; Clive, G. Bee, £379 ; Waipawa, S. Good, £-173 'Is; Waipukurau, J. Adams, £")77; Danevirke, It. Kimmcr, £230 ; Matawhero, H. J. Somervell, £321 ; Maraetaha, W. Skeet, £183 .3s; and Hastings, S. Tong, £055. In future deposits of five per cent, will be required from all tenderers.

The following- are the results of the annual examination of the the pupil teachers and candidates for pupil teachers, which took place on June 30 and three following days : Of 19 pupil teachers of the first year, 11 of the second, 7 of the third, 5 of the fourth, and 7 candidates who presented themselves, the results show that one pupil teacher of the fourth year and one of the first, together with three of the candidates, failed to score the requisite number of marks entitling them to a pass. Several of the papers were highly spoken of, particularly those of John Williamson, of Napier, and James Haughcy, of Gisbornc.

Iv the cup match with the Hcretaunga the Napier team will be selected from the following players :•-Anderson, Cato, Gibbous, Harrap, Kennedy, F., Kennedy, C. D., Kennedy, A., Kelh% Le Quesne, Large, Mountfort, Newton, " Parker, lioskrugo, Kavcnhill, Sheath, Stanton, Skeet, Symmonds, Walker and Weber.

The Harbor Board it appears are paying the Borough rates for the Police station buildings. The land it appears was granted by the Harbor Board to the Government, but the latter declined to pay the rates. The secretary was instructed to place the state of the case before the Government, with a view to their paying the rates.

Mr Hill has been asked to draft a scheme and estimate its cost, in consequence of the receipt by the Education Board, from him, of the following letter: —" In view of the new regulations which have just been issued by the Government with reference to the subjects to be taught in the district schools throughout the colony, I beg to draw the attention of the Board to the desirability of making some arrangements whereby those teachers who might be defective in one or more of the subjects required to be taught in the public schools under the now regulations, will have an opportunity afforded them of preparing themselves for the coming changes. Under the new regulations drawing is made a pass subject, and will count in the standard examinations as of equal value with reading and arithmetic, drill, singing, and sewing, though they will not be counted as pass subjects, will receive much greater attention than heretofore, and a similar remark might be made with regard to other subjects ef the syllabus. The proposed alterations, great as they are in some respects, will not be felt by some of the teachers in the district, but there are others who need some sort of preparation if the new standard requirements are to be strictly enforced in all the district schools. It will be remembered that about six years ago special classes were carried on in Napier i'or the benefit of certain teachers with the most encouraging results, and I think that if similar classes were organised with the view of affording opportunities to teachers for the preparation of subjects like drawing, singing, calisthenics, drill, and sewing, it would bo possible for every teacher in the Board's employ to become fairly wall qualified to carry out the requirements of the new standards which are to come into operation at the beginning of the year 18SG. I have spoken to several of the most experienced teachers on the subject and they have each promised me their assistance; in the teaching of special subjects should the project be approved by the Board."