Poverty Bay Herald.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7447, 28 September 1895, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald.

PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GIBBORNE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1895. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Our readers will recollect that some months ago a meeting was held in the Theatre Royal for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the question of introducing technical education into the Gisborne District School. His Honor Judge Barton presided, and delivered an intellectual address on the subject. Other speakers also urged the advisability of forming technical classes, and Messrs W. L. Rees, W. Morgan, C. A. DeLautour, J. Warren, and Lymburn used all the 3loquence at their command in advocating that technical training should be available for the elder pupils attending school. The :hoatre, though not crammed to suffoca;ion on that occasion, was comfortably Hied, and the meeting was unanimously in favor of technical education. A good working committee was formed, and to ill appearance the gratification of the wishes of the leaders and initiators of the novement was in a fair way of being iccomplished. We are not aware if the jommittee has ever met since the public nesting was held, or what steps have been ;aken to carry out the resolution passed ;hereat, but if anything has been done it vould be of interest to the public to be nade acquainted therewith. It; may be hat the members of the Committee have \eld innumerable meetings, devoted many lours in considering the matter, and premred an elaborate scheme for the mccessful innovation of technical classes, nit if so they have been particularly :ateful in preserving inviolate the secrecy n which their deliberations were conlucted. So far, at any rate, no practical esult has been achieved, and it is quite ime that the Committee enlightened the mblic as to what has been done. We are [uite sure that no one would desire to poil any scheme they may be considering >y unwarrantably hastening the process \i incubation, nor would we, for worlds, lounsel any precipitate action that might >c calculated to in any way retard the jerfect development of the technical mtterfly from the chrysalis stage. Still, b is not unreasonable, considering the ength of time since the public meeting, o hope that the members of the comaittee will shortly disclose what they have lone to further the cause so enthusiastially approved, and for which purpose hey were specially appointed. We notice from a report in the Southand Times that the Techuical School, rected at Invercargill by the Board of Sducation, was formally opened, pn. the ,

14th inst. by the Chairman, Mr J. W. Bain. In the course of his address, that gentleman referred to the great amount of attention techuical education is now receiving in Europe, America, and the British colonies, and urged that it was most essential that young people should be trained in habits of precision and correct mechanical method. Shorthand and ambulance classes were held in the room in which they were assembled, and as a small building had been erected as a workshop, instruction would be given every Saturday in carpentering and woodwork. In course of time ironworking, plumbing, etc., would be added to the syllabus. They had no intention of teaching the pupils a trade, but to assist as far as possible the development of any mechanical talent they might possess, by instructing them in the elementary use of tools. The constitution provided : — (1.) The school is instituted for the purpose of training pupils in attendance at the public schools in the elements of the manual arts and sciences. (2.) The school will be open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and from 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m. (3.) Pupils must have passed Standard IV or have attained the age of twelve years. (4.) New classes will be formed every three months for beginners. (5.) Pupils of primary schools to be enrolled for six months. (6.) Pupils to furnish their own tools and pay for material used. (7.) The subjects taught will embrace tools and their uses, the methods of sharpening and using same, ripping and cross-cutting on the square and obliquely, dressing up and squaring timbers, joints in woodwork, and general construction in woodwork. Time-table : 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. pupils of Standards VI. and VII and High School boys ; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., teachers ; 2.30 p.m. to 4 p.m., pupils in Standards IV. and V. The Board had supplied some of the tools, but each pupil would be required to gradually provide himself with a kit, the total cost of which would be about £2. Perhaps the foregoing particulars will assist our local Committee in arriving at a decision as to what should be done in order to introduce technical education into the public school ? There can be no doubt that many pupils having a mechanical bent, would benefit materially if technical classes were formed here, and it would be tnostj satisfactory if the Committee could arrange for them being held on somewhat similar lines to those adopted at Invercargill. A meeting of milk suppliers will be held at Waerenga-a-hika this evening. The following tenders were received by Mr Dobbie for carting for the Ngatapa station : G. J. White Ss per ton (accepted), P. Rodgers 8s 6d, and W. King 9s. Last launches for the Union Steam Ship Company's steamers calling here to-morrow have been altered, that of the Tarawera from 8 to 9 a.m., and the Flora from 5 to 7 p.m. At Mr C. Dean Pitt's sale of building sections this morning the attendance was good, but there were few buyers. Only one section (No. sa, Disraeli street) was sold, realising £47. The rest were passed in the bidding not reaching the reserve. n?he Rev. Mr Jordan, Vicar of Tauranga, andCbflpn Webb return to-morrow by the Tarawera frC»m Napier, where they have been attending a meeting of the Waiapu Diocesan Synod. The former gentleman will probably preach at both morning and evening services at Holy Trinity Church. The Tivoli Company gave their second performance in the Theatre Royal last night to a highly appreciative audience. Most of the items were encored and the audience came away apparently well pleased with, the night's amusement. The company appear for the last time in the Theatre this evening A writer in the Southland Times says that from a careful study of the share list of the Bank of New Zealand, he finds there are 8134 shareholders. Of theße 1137 are in New Zealand, 776 in Australia, 964 in England, and 257 in Ireland ; 285 esquires, 371 gentlemen, 208 widows, and 68 ministers Wesleyan and Presbyterian ministers seem in large proportion. It so appears that 1137 live in New Zealand, and 1997 out of it. Attention Is drawn to an alteration in Messrs Williams and Kettle's advertisement with reference to their sale of Swarthmoor and Niagara, on account of Mr John Sunderland. It has now been decided to cut up the Swarthmoor estate into small farms, and the opportunity of securing such valuable properties will no doubt be hailed with great satisfaction by numbers of our settlers, who have hitherto experienced a difficulty in getting small farms, excepting j at a very high rental. So as to suit the pockets of working farmers with small capital, we understand the terms offered will be very easy. No doubt this sale will excite eager competition, and it would j be well if other large holders on the flats follow Mr Sunderland's example, as our rich alluvial land is far too valuable to be used simply for carrying sheep, and the division of such land into smaller holdings will have the effect of introducing and encouraging the most desirable class of settlers that could be wished for. The sale will take place about the end of November. Mr W. F. Stephenson, the well-known milkman, has erected a Lawrence's Capillary Refrigerator. By the aid of this appliance milk intended for transit, or for the making of butter or cheese, may be cooled as soon as it leaves the cow, and before any injurious change can possibly have taken place. It is now well known that milk iB preserved in proportion to the rapidity with which it is cooled. The explanation to this is that when milk is suddenly cooled the floating germs, which are the cause of decomposition, are destroyed and the milk is consequently preserved, whereas if cooled by slow degrees living infusoria will still be found in it. By passing warm water through the refrigerator instead of cold, the temperature of the milk may readily be raised to any degree required, which in cold weather is a great advantage in cheese making. The refrigerators are made in sizes capable of dealing with from SO to 250 gallons of milk per hour. At the Police Court this morning before Mr Booth, S.M., William Green (who was brought up at the Court on Monday and remanded) was further remanded to Napier, Mr Day applied for bail, which was allowed. — Inspector Emerson said this was a hard caße. The accused was willing to give the money he earned for the support of his children, and could just as well have been dealt with by Mr Booth, as by the S M. at Napier. — Mr Booth said he could not interfere with the action of another magistrate. — Inspector Emerson mentioned that the accused bore a good character and was well spoken of by the police. He was anxious to make every provision for his children that was in his power.— Mr Booth said the Inspector would have an opportunity of stating that when the accused came before the Court at Napier. — Inspector Emerson stated he would do his best for the accused, who was both willing and anxious to do all he could for his children. A very singular and lamentable result of the depression came to light in the Supreme Court the other day, (says the Melbourne correspondent of the O.D. Times), when the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company were ordered to pay £1700 which they had advanced to a beneficiary under a will. The estate was that of Alfred Hicks, who died in 1888, leaving £30,000. The company when they began to administer the estate honestly believed there would be a surplus of at least £20,000, and they paid out £1700 to the beneficiaries— the wife and children, I believe. But by the failure of the banks and financial companies the estate has been called upon to pay so many calls that there will now be a deficit instead of a £20,000 surplus. In these circumstances the court decided that the Trustees Company would be held liable for the £1700. The court laid ie down that, although the conduct of the trustees had been bona fide, and he believed that at the time when he allowed a certain person to take possession of the property bequeathed to him there wore quite sufficient assets to pay the debts, he could not be allowed for that action and be discharged from the liabilities to the creditors. There are several cases of the same kind. Wives aud children are actually in want, though undoi- a will they are entitled to large sums; but, the trustees cannot give them a shilling while uncalled liability Oft Bhar.es exjstyj,

In the attempt to reforest their coanC r^» the Swiss have planted in seven yeara 40,000,C00 trees. Mr Miller, stock inspector for this district, discovered a milch cow the other day suffering from actinomycosis in an aggravated form. The cow had about half a dozen tumors on its neck and head, those on the neck interfering with the animal's breathing and swallowing. He ordered the destruction [ of the cow, and cutting out a couple of the tumors brought them into town. Anyone seeing one of these things would readily agree that all cattle meant for human feud should be inspected before being killed. Mr Miller gave l)r DeLautour one of the tumors for analytical purposes, and the other will be burnt or buried. — North Otago Times. The Otago Daily Times reports that, to show the sympathy of the fishermen of Port Chalmers for the loss of Messrs Walter Gash, John Gordon, and James Sullivan. Mr Vincent organised a party of ten of the deceased's comrades, who proceeded in two boats, with three days' provisions, on the 10th mat., and camped at Purakanui beach, making a search over a large area of the sea in the vicinity where the men were supposed to have been drowned. For three days they dragged with 200 fathoms of rope, to which were attached over 1000 large fishhooks, from Purakanui beach to below Warrington Point, but without avail. The present Government is supposed to be a Democratic Government — a poor man's Government, a Labor Government — and yet it is a fact that all its proposals in regard to tariff taxation tend in the direction of taxing more heavily the articles which are most generally consumed by the poor and industrial classes. The crushing duty of 2s per pair and 25 per cent, ad valorem is put upon the classes of boots worn by poor children and poor women. The higher priced boots and shoes worn by the richer and leisured classes are subject to no such crushing impost. The duty on fruit is one which will press most severely on women and children, especially those of the least well-to-do classes, while the remission of the duty on tea will prove more of a benefit to importers and retailers than to the poor consumers. The principle of the so-called Liberal People's Government seems to be to screw the last penny it can out of the people whose friend it professes to be. — Post. The London Spectator, of August 10th, refers in most eulogistic terms to the death of " one of the very ablest of our colbjnial Judges, Mr Justice Richmond." It mentions that he waa one of those whom Lord Rosebery's recent bill, permitting the Government to add distinguished colonial Judges to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, might have been expected, had it passed, to raise to the Bench of our chief Imperial Court of Appeal. He was one of those men who, so far as they have the opportunity, impress themselves on the mind of an infant State and give it a bias in the direction of honorable aims and a high, almost fastidious, social refinement. Whereever in New Zealand the Judge went circuit there the high character of British integrity was illustrated and the more spiritual elements of British culture were acclimatised and popularised. Mr R. H. Abbot writes as follows to the Auckland Herald of Tuesday last:— l was pleased to read the faithful description given by your special mining reporter of the result of his investigation of the Kennedy's Bay finds. When the reports of finds in this locality were first published, I sent down two men to investigate, and their report is identical in tenor to that of your special correspondent's account. The prospector, Cleaver, was simply astonished at the fame his modest and comparatively unimportant find has achieved, and requested my representative to not in any way assist in circulating auch unfounded representations. Since then three or four prospectors have arrived in town wanting parties to assist in floating claims on *' Cleaver's line of reef !" I have gone out of my way to warn them that if such " specs." as this are entertained on this market, the end of the mining- boom is not far off. If you are putting on a special mining reporter to visit the goldfield centres, and report fearlessly known facts, you will be doing Auckland a public service, by helping legitimate mining enterprise, bat exposing " wild cat " ventures.