WAITARA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10018, 1 June 1894, Page 2

WAITARA.

[from our own correspondent.] June I. —The annual meeting ofhouseholders was held in the schoolroom on Monday, May 28, 1894.' There were about forty persons present, and Mr F. Bluck was voted to the chair. The Chairman of the out-going Committee, Mr Pearce, stated that the meeting had been duly convened by Education Board. The following report and balance-sheet was presented by the Chairman of the out-going committee, and was unaraiously adopted :—: — Ladies and gentlemen, the time has again arrived for your Committee to give an account of then- doings for the year. The members of tne Committee have attended to their duties on the whole fairly well, although two of the members havo been prevented from attending as regularly as otherwise they would have done through absence from home. Oh April 1, 1893, there was a balance at the bank of £1112s 3d. The-balance ' now is £17. 5s sd. with capitation now due of £7 13s 9d, and liabilities £8 Is, thus leaving a credit balance at bank of £16 17s 2d, which as you will see leaves the Committee in a fair position toutart the ensuing year. The accounts for the year have been forwarded to tho Education Borad to be audited," aiid have been found correct The school buildinga are in fair order. Mr H, .Mason, 8.A., as you are aware is still .in charge of the school, with Miss Powell as assistant mistress, and Miss Geldhart as pupil teacher. During the year Miss Batten has resigned and Miss Blanche Tattoa\ appointed as cadet in Miss Batfen'p place; During the year the school has maintained its efficiency, in fact, according to the Inspector's Annual Report, the Waitara school will compare very favorably with the largest schools in the district. Tho infant school has been painted, and the cost defrayed by an entertainment by the staff and the children. Your committee has much pleasure in stating that considerable improvement has been made in the sewing work during the post year, thanks to the assistant mistress, Miss Powell. Your committee has pleasure in stating that the attendance is,. equal to , -.former years, and although the Board has made a change in the scale of tho staff. Where an average of 121 previously entitled the school to its present staff of teachers, by the change in the scale an average of 131 is required to claim the present staff of teachers; therefore, this committee would earnestly request parents to see that their children attend school as regularly aspossible, '-so as to maintain the required average. Mr S. Howard has been retained as caretaker, and has done his duty to the satisfaction of the committee. A hearty vote of thanks was given to Mr Mason and the teaching staff, and to all those who had assisted in defraying the cost of painting the infant schoolroom without calling upon the Committee for assistance. On the motion of Mr Bluck it was ro- , solved that a hearty vote of, thanks be accorded the out-going Comnuttea for the satisfactory way they had fulfilled theiv duties during the past year. ' i The following gentlemen ,were then elected for the ensuing year: —Messrs F. Brabant, J. Elliot, G. Pearce, E. A. Dugdale, Jno. Wilson, S. W. Nichols, and \V. McKoy. A vote of thanks to' the chairman brought the meeting to a close. • The new Committee afterwards, met and re-elected Mr G. Pearce as chairman for the ensuing year. LATE NEWS' BY THE MAILS. Louis Kossuth. who died at Turiliiilg" other day, was little more than'a name to. the younger generation, but forty years ago he was a! great figure before the world.. He was. a young Hungarian noble ■ who espoused the causa of national independence in articles which got him into prison. Then ia 1849 he declared Hongary to'be an independent state, and, led a revolution against Austrian rule, which would probably have been successful but for the' intervention of Russia. In battle after battle be defeated the Austrian troops and beat them back into Austria, but a Russian army of 200,000 men crushed bis hopes and he escaned into) Turkey, and thence to England. Here hey was a popular hero, and the City Corpo* ration voted Mm au address. At this time he was one of the greatest orators* of Europe-" eloquent in four languages." . Both here and in America he worked hard to obtain the means to make another struggle against Austrian rule, but hia .countrymen never rose again, ttnd be renounced his citizenship, declining to avail himself of tho amnesty which m latef years the Austrian Government .would beve been glad to grant him. For a quarter of a century he ha 3 lived at Turin a hale old man, devoting himself entirely to scientific studies. His 90th birthday was celebrated there in September 1892, when a party of members of the Hun garian Parliament visited tho old patriot $o congratulate him. „ Mr Neal Dow, an American teetotaller, completed his ninetieth year on the 20th March. He isa native of Portland in tha State of Maine, and for half a century has been the leading Prohibitionist advocate in the United States. - An amusing story is quoted' by a contemporary from a recent political speech of Sir Jamea Kitsons. An old fanner, who was dyingj called Ms wife to his side. "Sarah," he said, "I have been thinking -about what you will do when I nave gone, aud I f oar you will not bo able to manago the throe cows and the few acres of land wo have, and make a living out of it. I think you had better marry John when I havo gone." Sarah replied, " Well, John and Ihadbeentalkingaboutit." The farmer said no more. < Maj«r Le Caron (Thomas Beach), the celobrated police spy, who figured so prominently in .connection , with tho Fenian movement, and, more recently, ia the Paruell Commission, died in London, on-April 1. BJe was born in Colchester m 1841. Ho left England at the age of nineteen for Paris, and went to America to join the Northern Army on tho outbreak of the Civil War. Major Lo Oaron died from an internal tumour, for which, io underwent a severe operation Bomu two years ago., After the Pameli Commission, Le Carou assumed the same of .Dr. Howard—he held a, laojOjail degree— and lived in sstfusvm% a house inSouth Kensragtou,. Hew ho was guarded day and, night up to, the very labt'bvfour detectives. He uas left a daughter who now inherits the life^assurauce. which \jtas guaranteed, it is uudisrstuod, by thu . Tbiu'K, and accumulations wliich will raiso her fortune to. about £!W,OQO.