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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 105, 31 October 1900, Page 4

• At the meeting of the Education Board this afternoon Mr. J. Robertson referred in terms of high praise to the action taken by Mr. Hogg, M.H.R., last ses-~ sion in taking steps to prevent the progress of the Public School Teachers' Salaries Bill in the form in which it was Drought down, by the Government. Ko one with any sell respept would, he said, ' have remained a member of an Education Board if that Bill had passed. Mr. Youi. j moved* a vote -of thanks to Mr. Ho.; for his ' action on that occasion, at.tl remarked that if the Bill had r>assc I ie would have at once resigned his se.^ ■ on the Board. The vote of thanks w; » seconded by Mr. Feist and carried unanimously. Mr. Hogg, in returning thank-, said the vote would materially strength' i his hands should any future attempt 1.0 made by the Government to wrest for," the people of New Zealand a form of loci. ' government under which the educalio i system had grown to be one of the be,- 1 ; systems in this part of the world, ii the Bill as drafted had passed, not only would Education Boards have been robbed of all their powers, but a deadly Woav would have been aimed at our representative • institutions. An example was made of a number of small boys brought before Messrs. J. C. M'Kerrow and R.- L. Mestayer for stone- ' throwing. The names of the culprits ■were— Richard Smith, Henry H. Silk, Fred. Harvey, Harold Spencer, Percy Finlay, Frank Donaldson, -and Geo. Barber. The last-named pleaded not guilty j all the others guilty. The evidence showed that the bo^s had throiwn stones at a Chinaman's shop and generally made themselves a nuisance. Harvey was discharged, Spencer fined 10s and 6s costs, and all the others 5s with 6s costs.. The fortnightly meeting of the Melrose Borough Council was held last night. Jhere were present— The Mayor (Mr. Frost), Councillors Clark, Shepherd, . Keene.Fullford, Walter, Newell, Brown, and Highet. Mr. F. J. Pinny attended in support of petitions praying that the Maida Vale and Reserve B roads. Roseneath, should be lighted. The 'matter was referred to the Lighting Committee. It was decided to undertake the repair of the track over the Town Beit to North Kilbirnie. A complaint was received ; frAn Mr. Kidd in reference to the state of Moxham-avenue, Kilbirnie, and he was recommended to bring the matter under the notice of the City Council, as owner of the adjoining Town,. Belt. At the request of Mr. H. M. Hayward it was decided to contribute £25 towards the maintenance of the Queen's Drive. The Council was interviewed by Messrs. P. Carmody, J. M'lndoe, ,T. Bay, W. J. Haines, and T. Tarabacha, who asked that the" borough should take over the Upper Kaiwarra-road. The matter was referred to the Streets Committee. Tho Lighting Committee was instructed to consider the question of increasing the number of street lamps in Taitville. The Public Trust Office holds securities in the Poverty Bay district to the amount of about £100,000. Two first offenders were convicted of" drunkeness and dealt with accordingly by Messrs J. C. M'Kerrow and R. L. Mestayer, in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Frank King, for having fai.ed to provide for the future maintenance of his unborn child, was remanded till Monday next, bail being flowed, self £20, and one surety of £20. Messrs. F. Pirani and W. W. Collins, M's.H.R., have decided to follow the example of Messrs. J. Hutcheson and A. R. Atkinson., two of the Wellington members, and return to the Consolidated Revenue the £40 sessional allowance voted last session. The marriage of Mr. L. C. Haines, eldest son of Mr. A. G. Haines, an old Wei-, lington settler, to the youngest daughter of Mr. William Clout, of Waiwetu, took place at St. Peter's Church this afternoon, ■ The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Davys. . It is somewhat of a coincidence that My. and Mrs. Haines, senr., were married in the same church by the Yen. Archdeacon Stock some 27 'years ago. A horse belonging to Mr. Field, of Palmerston, performed an 'almost incredible feat the other afternoon. As tho train to Hawkes Bay, which included a number of empty trucks,, was passing through the Square at the. rate of about eight miles an hour, the horee rushed towards it and jumped on to one of the trucks. The impetus carried it against one of the stanchions, and this breaking clean off, the horse fell back on the road, unhurt beyond a few Uesli wounds. A large number of friends of the la.te Mr. William Freeman, of Palmerston (formerly of Wellington), attended his funeral, which left the residence of his father, Molesworth-street, yesterday afftrnoon. The interment took place in the Church of England Cemetery, Boltonstreet, the Rev. Mr. Bartlett conducting. The chief mourners were the deceased's father, Mr. W. Freeman, and Mr. Dunning, a .brother-in-law. . About 5 o'clock yesterday evening, a horse attached to an express owned by H. Brown, expressman, Willis-street, bolted down Boulcott-street, ran into a horse and cart in Manners-street, and tnen collided w?th a verandah post opposite Cooper's seed* depot. The post was snapped clean in two, and the back wheels of the express parted company with the' other portion of the vehicle. The horse continued to gallop along the street, and just by Herbert-street Detective Nixon ran out, seized the reins and succeeded in bringing the animal to a standstill a few feet from a tramcar, which was standing on the line, full of passengere. The express was completely smashed, only the front wheels and the shaft being left. X A very handsome hand-painted panel was presented to Mrs. Seddon at the Drivers' Union dinner last night. The panel was the work of a driver. Mr. J. Thomas, who had devoted his spare hours to its execution for some time past, and it was presented to Mrs. Secidon by Mr. Allan Orr as a slight return for the labours of herself and her husband 6n behalf of the workers. . Another of those charming excursions up the Wanganui River is to be run on Friday morning by the s.s. Aotea, of the Wanganui Settlers' River Steamship Company. The vessel is to leave at 7 a,.m., run beyond Pipiriki, and return on Saturday evening. * The $airy farm, of 76 acres, at Karori, belonging to the estate of the late Mrs. Francis Standen, was sold at auction yesterday afternoon by Messrs. Harcourt and Co., to Mr. Geo. Bell, at £10 per acre. Mr. Bell has been leasing the property for some time. Keeping pace with the advance of Petone, the Hutt and Petone Chronicle, which for the last thirteen years has been published weekly, will, after to-day's issue, be published semi-weekly. St. Peter's Church Choir will practice to-night as usual. A meeting of the Amalgamated Sooiety of Painters and Decorators is called for Friday evening at the Trades Hall. Intending members of the Volunteer Submarine Mining Corps are invited by the Colpnel commanding the district to send in their names at once. People wonder why Black Swan Butter sells so well. It is because it is always fresh and of prime quality.— Advt. -