NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11540, 27 November 1900, Page 3

NEWS FROM COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] WAIHI. ' , MR. J. ■ GOODWIN, Government inspector, has just completed the annual standard examination of the Waihi school, the work having occupied three and a-lialf days. The number of scholars on the roll was 526, and the average. attendance during the examination 502, Close upon 90 per cent, of the children have passed ■ their standards. Some misguided individual is at present playing a foolish practical joke upon the more nervous portion of the community by appearing unexpectedly after dark in whiteflowing robes, usually associated with ghosts.' Several of the fair sex have been more or less frightened by the (seeming) apparition, and" as the police are now on the trail, it. is to be hoped they will be able to lay the ghost ■ peacefully, before any serious injury is inflicted at the hands of enraged citizens. # '-«• HAMILTON. • His Worship the Mayor has called a public meeting for the purpose ofurranging to give the members of the First Contingent a suitable reception on their return from South Africa. • A - The annual meeting ot the Hamilton Athletic Club was held on Saturday. Mr. I. ■ Coates, the president, occupied the chair. The secretary read the balance-sheet for the past ; yeair, which showed the . receipts to • have been- £103 4s Bd, including £11 18s sd' brought forward, and the expenditure £10117s, leaving a small credit balance of £1 7s Bd. The. balance-sheet was adopted. The meeting was then adjourned until Thursday, in order to coitfer with the committee of the Amateur Club as to holding sports. t TE AWAMUTU. THE result of the annual examination of the public schools, which was held by Inspector' Grierson. is as follows:—Standard VI.: ! Presented 4; passed 4. Standard V.: Presen tea 17; passed 17. Standard, IV.: Presented' 21; passed 17. Standard III.: Presented 8; passed 6. Standard 11. Presented 9; passed 9. Standard I.': 19; passed 19. The inspector reported that the promotion and classification of the pupils have been very carefully done." > The order and discipline and manners of the pupils were excellent. >