THE SCHOOLS GIVEN A HOLIDAY

Otago Witness, Issue 2413, 7 June 1900, Page 28

THE SCHOOLS GIVEN A HOLIDAY

but things went no further. A contingent of High School boys, after honouring Mr J. Robin in the Octagon, took a hand in the closizig movement, but their conduct was not rowdy or such as could be complained of in any way.

As might have been expected, all the public schools were closed. The children attending the Kaikorai School assembled as usual, and after singine: several patriotic songs and cheering lustily for the British successes in South Africa, were dismissed. This no doubt would ha the case with the children attending oilier schools, the youngsters being set free to witness the display of unbounded enthusiasm in the streets in the morning and the dembnstraroion in the afternoon. The "Union street ■School Cadets, to the number of about 20, ■jook part in the. procession, as did also the lindustrial School Band and the Industrial '"School Cadets, there being about 4 0 of the latter present. A contingent qi the High School Boys after serenading Mr J. Robin, and bringing him. out for a. speech, took a hand in patrolling the town and enforcing the closing movement. Mn BARCLAY AND HIS UNIVERSITY CLASS. On meeting his class at the Otago University on Friday morning, Mr A. R. Barclay said : Gentlemen, I can assure you that not one of you is more delighted with the happy news that came last night than I am. We •will begin by giving three hearty chesrs for the capture of Pretoria. This is an occasion on which everyone must rejoice, because it "would now se©m that we have at last arrived •oraetically at the end of the war. N-o classes Trill be bald in u the afternoon, and T ptrongly advise you to make as joyful a, holiday for u he rest oi the clay as you can. Th.o chaers called for by Mr Barclay %vere most heartily responded to by the whole class.