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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 539, 3 September 1897, Page 3

Monthly meeting of the Pahiatua County Council to-morrow. It has been decided to call Parliament together for the despatch of business on Thursday, 2drd December. The jury in the Looney case disagreed and were discharged. A new trial will take place next week. Messrs Abraham and Williams insert list of stock for their next sale at Pahiatua on Tuesday, September 14th. The football match Taranaki v. Wellington, played last Wednesday, resulted in a win for the latter by three points (one try) to nil. The Wesleyan servhes at Mangatainoka next Sunday will be conducted by the Rev. Mr Perryman at 3 p.m. and Mr F. Hill at 7 p.m. The fussy dare up in Russia is behoved to be fatal to Germany’s aspirations to be Premier of the Powers—that is the Continental Powers. About five vessels with the name Tasmania on them have come to grief. It always was an unlucky name, even when it was known as Van Djeman’s Land. Mr Fred 11. Vile in another column notifies that he has been nominated for the position of Borough Councillor for the South Ward. See the advertisement. Mr Vile’s coach will leave the Commercial Hotol at 1.15 p.m. to morrow to convey the Pahiatua football team to Woodville. The team is requested to be punctual, as the coach will start sharp to time. The second Anglican Church concert has been fixod for Friday evening, September 10th. A preliminary advertisement in conneotion with it appears in another column. Read it. Full particulars on Monday. Following Great Britain’s lead, Russia has hold its demonstration. Germany and France will follow. It’s all arranged to inspire the people under the respective Powers with ideas of their importance. In the final it is expected Great Britain will take the cake. A master demands a fuller literary diet for school children. If he is of opinion that they are not well fed our idea is that they are already worked too long hours. From 8 a.m. to 12 noon, 1 to 4 p.m., and two hours for home tasks is niae, while an able-bodied man stops short at eight hours. The children may deserve a littlo more food, but not of the literary variety. The native chief, Whitiora to Kumete, whose death is reported from the Waihi settlement, opposite Huntly, on the Waikato rivor, was n celebrated Maori warrior, and was one of the Kingiies’ principal leaders in the Waikato war of 1863-64. lie was a man of high rank, and a Maori of the old school, and was an old friend of the late Maori King, Tawhiao.

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