The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. Saturday, September 20, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 899, 20 September 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. Saturday, September 20, 1879.

Fine general sunshiny weather has prevailed through the week, and vegetation is making rapid progress. With another two or three weeks of the present favorable weather, the early crops will be pretty well advanced, and able to hold their own against the coming hot summer months. The farmers are getting into good heart, as the grass is sprouting beautifully. Stock of all kinds are beginning to pick up, and all trace of the severity of the winter will soon have passed away.

Ttf c establishment of a District Court m Gisborne has already been felt m the interests of justice. The example set by Mr. Katclifee will, it is hoped, be followed up by other trustees bringing before the Court those guilty of the same offence, for which Peter Sorry has been so justly punished,

Judge Kenny appears to have found favor not only with the local Bar but with the general public. Combined with good legal knowledge, His Honor is very patient and painstaking m the investigation of all business coming within his jurisdiction. - <•'.* "l

We are told of a cauliflower growing m Mr. Heisbeck's garden at Napier which turned the scale at 141bs. avoirdupois. Why should men be so fond of going m for big cauliflowers, gigantic cabbages and monster turnips? In the Scientific Gardener we read that preternaturally large vegetables are most unwholesome as they can only be grown by forcing with strong manure of a disgusting kind, and this forms one of the constituent elements of all such monster productions ; besides which they are of inferior flavor.

Bishop Moorhouse, m speaking of Coffee Palaces, now established m Melbourne, said that he considered a pipe of tobacco had a very consoling and beneficial effect. The consequence of this opinion expressed m high clerical quarters has been that all the young clergymen m Victoria have taken to smoking pipes of tobacco, and all the young ladies of their congregations are engaged night and day m working tobacco pouches for them — that is for the unmarried ones.

Oußlocal School Committee have again been abusing their position. There were, required two pupil teachers for the Gisborne School, for which there were five applicants. One of these was a pupil m the School. She had by hard and almost health-destroying study passed for a good class

scholarship ; had been teaching m the School ; and had been strongly recommended by the schoolmaster ; but she and another qualified pupil teacher were passed over for a young girl just arrived m the district, and one who has never received an examination. In fact, no one but the Chairman of the Committee who put her m knows anything about her. Acts of this kind must have a very injurious effect m lessening the efforts of School children who study long hours to advance themselves for pupil teachers. "We were nob aware that employees m the Civil Service were pernvtted to be mischievous m matters educational, and. of which large numbers of them, as m the present case, are very ignorant. It would perhaps be as well that the head of the department at Wellington should be acquainted with the doings of one of his subordinates.

A GOOD workman generally prefers selecting his own tools, and declines to allow another man who knows nothing about the business he follows to select them for him. It is the head-master of a School who is responsible for the advancement of the children under his care, and if he is not allowed to make choice of the teacher most fit for his purpose, it is cei'tain that he ought to be released from his responsibility.

The Maoris who took their departure to-day for Sydney went off m high spirits. Taking them altogether they are a fine lot, and will be certain to create a sensation. The cost of sending these Natives to Sydney^ and bringing them back will be close upon one thousand five hundred pounds.

It is to be regretted that there was so few entire horses paraded yesterday ; because it shows a falling away m the enterprise of retaining firstclass breeding stock for Poverty Bay, which erst-while had such a high reputation for its horsefiesh. The quality was fair enough, but the display m numbers was a miserable one.