WAIPAWA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8335, 11 April 1889, Page 3

WAIPAWA.

(FROM OUK OWN CORRESPONDENT.) April 10, 1889. _ We have not yet had a snrprise visit to the school from the Inspector, as graphically set forth in an evening paper. Already the poor little "kiddies" who are being sent to school to Hastings are beginning to look blue enough in the early mornings. I mean to say that, it is a heartless thing to tmnble these little things out about 6 a.m., make them travel 27 miles to school and 27 back at night, not arriving home till after dark. Itls not schooling, it is slavery; and all for what? !o satisfy a ridiculous notion of the parents and pastor. Because, what of all the other children who do not co? Contrast such paltry business with the utterance of Cardinal Moran in New South Wales ! He does not say a word against the national system, and adds that if the majority of the people of the colony are satisfied, the Catholics have no right to interfere. Don't the poor little children now travelling to Hastings wish they had a Cardinal Moran in New Zealand, that's all ! In addition to the few youngsters who go from here, one of the family whose pater objected so decidedly to " Home Lessons " is now being sent to Hastings. Instead of being able to help the " weary mother " the daughter will have to rise betimes in the morning so as to catch the early train, and, on arrival after nightfall at home, will' have lessons to learn for the next day. How some people can "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel ! " A conple of cricket matehe.s have been arranged between a combined eleven of Manstead and M'aipukurau and the Waipawa club, the first to come off at Waipawa on Saturday next, and the return matoh on Good Friday at Waipukurau. The second of the water tanks for lireprevention purposes is nearly completed, so far as the work of excavation goes, and it certainly does not look as though it would prove a permanent work by the way the timber is being put in. I am afraid it will prove to ba one of those " penny wise and pound foolish" undertakings. As Mr M'Greevy said at the outset, "Nothing like brick or concrete for underground work." If the timber work does not give or the ground cave in, well I don't know what good or bad standincr ground is, that's all. There seems very little probability of water running, in from a spring at this point, as the pupa has been reached, bntthere will be some top-drainage in wet weather. In the summer months the well will have to be tilled by pupping ! One of the men engaged in the work of excavating had a narrow escape the other day. A piece of ground came in from one side, and the man had juat time to leap to the other side of the hole, when the mass fell on the spot where he had been working, and many lumps fell around his legs. On Tuesday next, at the Wiupukurau Mutual Improvement Society's meeting, Mr S. T. M. Hornsby will lecture on "John BrigUt." He will have plenty of material. Talking of lectures,- we have here just now one Baron Molwo, who lectures on his personal experiences in Russia, and his escape therefrom, and he tells why he is a refugee. If he should yet conic your way (he was announced in the Herald to do so on one occasion), those' who take an interest in these matters will do well to hear him. I am told that there is to be another fowl (should it not read " foul" ?) case at the Court on Wednesday next. Dr. MirTjach has had a fowl killed (the E.M. said that Mr or Mrs Sneehan might kill bnt not maim the fowls) but it appears he got hold of ifc just after its neck was •wrung, and of course it was kicking. He went to the sergeant of police and exhibited the chicken in its last agonies.