KAIKORA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 2014, 16 December 1870, Page 3

KAIKORA.

(imov a coaREsroKDEHT.) . "' . ' December 14, 1870. The annual examination of the Kuikora school took place on Friday, tbe 10th inst. Present, tie Rev. R. Taylor, the two trustees, and Messrs. R. Tod and F. Barrie ; aTso a number of ladies, and no lack of children, 26 of whom are on the school list. More gentlemen were expected to have been present, but they preferred making hay while the sun ahone. The order of the examination was — Reading and spelling; arithmetic and tables; examination of copy books; and, lastly, recitation. Owing to its getting late, grammar and geography were passed over. .The Rev. R. Taylor then entertained the children (and, I might say, adults too) with vt' few instructive and entertaining anecdotes, in his simple but masterly way, evidently rivetting their attention, and occasionally eliciting that merry laugh which childhood alone can give. „;*"'.:_ ,=;Next .followed the distribution of prizes .by the rev. gentleman to the more fortunate competitors, while the less fortunate were ' ' each presented with a small token as an incentive to perseverance, so that none were ■-/--y."_sent. empty away — not even literally, ior > r Cftkes,; tarts, &c y then became the order of T ; the.day. -....- : ■■-i f't^ln conclusion, the examination, may be :>. y:, gtatedvtp have been quite satisfactory to all ''■t r^pteeen^and^^pretroppectiTe view of this ?S:/%ghoqi, , three . years ago s^=3|^llJijß(et^epfriclipfcrSjis'encpuraging to both