Waipawa.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5908, 13 August 1890, Page 3

Waipawa.

LOW 3 COBBKSPONDKNT. j

The following sentence appears in tho course of a report of the last meetu.g of t.io Marlborough Education Board:- Irom Mr McMahon, Konupuni, stating that Ins daughter was teaching his other children in ♦ho absence of the tutor, and asking that 6he receive the capitation allowance. Airreed to " From this it would appear the heads of families li««(f. »* » distance icom a school, or where it is inconvenient to K et a school, have tutors found them at the public expense. Note also that the word «« tutor " is in the original, and not " Someone about the town is laying poison iot dogs, and quite a number have been killed lately, including two valuable sheep dogs belonging to Mr Britten, two belonging to Mr Glass, and the Litest victim tli.it succumbed yesterday wu Mr D. Moroney » "Paddy's Market" which was to have run in the All-Aged Stakes at Ashcott_ to-day. It may be well to remind whoever is guilty "" r that any person who throw**, drops, casts, or lave poison in a town district, or within three" chains of a public road out Mdc a town district, or anywhere on land not in his own occupation oc" buries it lew than two feet from the surface, in liable to a penalty of ilO for every offence. jßather a good thing has occurred on a run not far from here, and as a distorted lersi.™ ra a >' Taach - >' ou ' - # IVO the lv tails oi the ease. On Sunday the manager learned ihat a good deal of grumbling wan *oing on oniony; a gang of m-ri that were employed us under-serubbers, so b« went down to Investigate. Telling the m-n ]»o iad come io ascertain their grievance*?, he a»iked what was iirai.i-i, and then learned that they objected to huvinir m> much roast beef and potatoes, and to little mutton, Tjadding, i"<l bread for their board, lhe Ringleader being cheeky, und uring bad language, was cashiered on the spot, and the remainder told that if they remained dissatisfied thoy could conn, up to the hcuwatead and receive their wages at uoou. In doe course seven of the men put m au np-p-arance and were paid oif. 1 hoy have Since circulated a story that tiiey went out "n rtrike. One of them 1H .nil rtnyiuß *out the township, and the r«t ta travelled. The men were not regular hands, but a .cratch lot of grangers that applied for work at the stawm. 1 gather from the local paper that a .special meeting of thß Pahwtna rmW ■£U to have been held on Saturday night, .but it lapsed for want of a quorum, :>Lr Beeae refusing to rtt, a* the pubUcan* hud a majority on their ride! ,. Now whdt on .earth has a man's private biwmess to do ■witb. his public duties? Thing* have got aadly mixed there since the recent licensing _ tiectionrt.