The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1902.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11977, 27 May 1902, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1902.

New Plymouth is not the only place where friction exists between Education Boards and School Committees. At Auckland the other day the Board disregarded the recommendations of a committee in the appointment, of two-^teachers to city schools, with the result that the Committee will probably resign as a protest. The facts of one case are that a vacancy occurred at the Ber-esford-street school and the Committee recommended the promotion of the first-assistant mistress. The Board refused to accept the suggestion, and invited applications. The first-assistant mistress applied, but her application was ignored, her name not being sent on to the Committee. The latter, however, after considering the names submitted, still adhered to its former recommendation, but the Board threw the recommendation aside and appointed one of its own nominees. The Committee naturally resented the snub, considering that if it is to be treated so, the time of the members is wasted. In the otner case, the Committee recommended the appoint- ; ment of a female teacher to the i Chapel-street school, but again their | recommendation was totally ignored. At Christchurch the trouble between Board and Committee is much the same as occurred here. The East Christchurch Committee waited on the Board last week to complain that the incidental allowances granted by ±he Board were not nearly sufficient to cover the expenses of the school. The Committee claimed to have reiduced the expenditure to the lowest possible limits, and yet had got into debt to the amount of £80. Meanwhile, there was no coal for the schoolroom fire, the caretaker could not be paid, and various incidentals required for the school had to remain unpurchased. Such a state of ihings is not encouraging to householders who come forward and give their time to the service of the State and these incidents emphasise the necessity for a revision of the educational system. Tne duties of Committees are supposed to include a voice in the selection of teachers,, and the management' of such matters as cleaning and warming schools, and .attending "to" minor repairs.' Here we have, at Auckland the Board deliberately refusing to allow a Committee a voice in the selection of a teacher, and in unristchurch and New Plymouth Committees are unable to carry out the other little, duties because the -Boards do not grant sufficient funds for the purpose. If Luis kind of thing is to go on the election of School committees will become a perfect farce, and the sooner a. revision of the system comes about the better. » A week or two ago we reprinted from a southern exchange a letter rejceitped in the colony from a Mr Stewart, of Toronto, in which a charge of pro-Boerism "as hronght against Mr J. G. Woolley, lis." iL'inppra.icc advocate who recently visited this colony. Since then a somowkat !i"sitt«i c<:iu-s-pondence has been carried on in Christchurch and Dunedin, aijd Mi Stewart has been accused of garbling Mr Wool ley's writings and misrepresenting his views. The Prohibitionist has taken the matter up warmly in defence of Mr Woolley and points oui where Mr Stewart misrepresents him Mr Woolley has been obliged to cancel his engagement to revisit New Zea-

'and—not on account of this affair — =o that it does not really matter greatly whether he Is a pro-Boer or lot, but since we published Mr Stewart's letter we are quite willing to jive the other side, though we cannot »cc that the explanations oli'ered by the Prohibitionist really help Mr Woolley much or absolve him fijprn Lhe charges brought against him. ifOf the three quotations the second cannot at present be refuted, because the issue of The New Voice from which it purports to be taken is not available. In the first .the words omitted by Mr Stewart do not appear to us to modify those -which he does quote. The third quotation can scarcely be found fault with. Mr Stewart ascribed to The New Voice a statement that the Boers were possessed of no advantage over the British except that of, greater valour arid mobility. What The New Voice really said was that they had no advantage over the British except the remarkable valour of their soldiers and the extreme mobility of their army. The only meaning that can be attached to this is that the valour and mobility of the Boers were greater than those of the British. How, otherwise, could they have any advantage therein ? Of course Mr Woolley "is quite entitled to hold and express his opinions, but he must expect to have them criticised. The Prohibitionist quotes- further from The New Voice to show that Mr Woolley's feelings for Great Britain are friendly, but does not attempt to explain his assertion that "the loyalty of these States and colonies (Australia and New Zealand) to the British Crown is imaginazy in the main," that " these people, almost unconsciously, begin to long for independence," and thai. „" in personal affinity, Australasia and the United btates are closer far than Australasia and England." As* far as New Zealand is concerned, Mr Woolley has, in our judgment, at any late, quite mistaken the colonial sentiment, and we are inclined to agree with the Rev. Mr Fairclough, who, in a letter to the Otago Daily Times, says we do not want Mr Woolley's advice, and will not have it. The quotations referred to above will be found in another column. Typhoid fever stiU'continues at Napier. One of the latest victims is an architect; A War Office contract for 25 tons of cheese has lately been filled in Dunedin. In this issue Messrs Hardy & Co. announce they have for sale a consignment of Taupiri coal. The charge of the Post Officaand Telephone Bureau at Tongaporutu has been transferred to Mr A. waters. Colonial mails, which leffc Melbourne on 23rd April, arrived in London on the night of the 24thjtfay. We would remind our readers of the sde of Education Reserve Leases by Mr Newton King at his mart 10-morrow afternoon. Captain Edwin wired at 12.10 today : j — ; Gale from betweeu north-west and I west and south; glass rise; sea heavy; tides high; weather colder. Mr W. Dingle has sold his property ne&r the Powderham-street bridge to Mr W. Courtney, the price being in the region of £1,300. According to an exchange, a lady, who has a smart turn oat, has started cabdriving in Nelson, and is doing all the business. Mr Reginald Brett is approaching the Government, on behalf of a syndicate, with a view of securing larger areas of land at Kotuku on which to prospect for natural oil, and he also wishes a bonus to ba offered for oil. Photographers should note that on Monday next Mr Newton King will hold a clearing sale of the whole of Mr Geo. H., White's photographic stock-in trade. Full particulars will be found on re ference to our advertising columns. The Roman Catholic Archbishop and Bishops of New Zealand are issuiug a circular enjoining on all churches a solemn To Deum of thanksgiving and invocation to be sung or recited on Coronation Day or the following Sunday. In the Sydney District Court recently Lieutenant J. N. Slattery sued Lieutenant A. S. cott for £200, as damages for injuries caused through a cigar, which defendant gave him, exploding in his face. Judge Murray awarded plaintiff £15 damages and costs on the higher scale. The Adelaide Advertiser states that Mary Schippan, who was acquitted on a charge of murderiug her sister Bertha, at Cowitta on the night of Ist January, was married to Gustave Nitshke shortly after the conclusion of the trial. Mrs Nitschke and her husband are at present residing at Port Pirie. The Chief Postmaster notifies ns that on and after June Ist the rates chargeable on ordinary telegrams to European countries by either Pacific or Extension routes will be 3j 4d per word ; the rate for Government telegrams via the Pacific vvill be 2s 3d per word and via the extension 2s, 4d; pres3, by either route. Is 2d per wcrd. The Treasurer of the Boys' Institute desires to acknowledge receipt of 18s 7d collected by E. Tunbridge as follows :—: — A. Davidson, D. English, E. O. Lightband, M.F., aDd Friend Is each; W.H.8., S.S.GS.W., W.R., F.L., W.C., EC, Fried, G.H.W-, 6d each; other monymous subscribers 8s 7d. We have been requested to state that ,my householder requiring firewood can get permission from the custodian of the ftecreation Grounds to cut down trees' hat have been marked for removal. Of course, in exercising this privilege care must be observed not to injure other trees. ■ The Dairy Commissioner states that the complaints which were frequently made as to the smudging of packages of butter and cheese with shipping marks and the damaging of the cases tbrougn rough handling on the wharves and seamers have ceased. The packager sent along the coast for transhipment to Home steamers are now coming to hand looking as well as when they left the factories. A large number of wild ducks have taken up their quarters in the Recreation Grounds lake recently. It is bupposed that the freedom from the attacks of sportsmen and dogs has made them regard the lake as a safe abode. These visitors, however, added to the swans and ducks habitually there are a tax on the resources of the Board. Any one, therefore, who c<n spare grain of anylsind would be conferring a favour by Bending it to the custodian. A message published in a London piper from Paris sajs that the actual possibility of a frixth sense in human beings was advanced with great plausibility by Dr Javal at the meeting of the Academy of Medicine. Dr Javal is blind and in the course of his speech he denied vigorously that Nature compensates blindness by increased sensibility of touch and hearing. Rather, be'eonsidered, that when a person was blind' an extra development takes place of the sixth sense, which iff latent in all persons. This sense, which has been called the sense of obstacles, acts by the perception of certain warm and inde finite vibrations. The seat of the sense is believed to be placed in the forehead. Mr Harry. Bell has discovered on his property/at Tarata, a half-finished Maori canoe, which, fiom all appearance, is ancient enough to be of considerable value. The bush on Mr Bell's land was felled last year, and those engaged in the work noticed totara chips in the vicinity of the find They, however, accounted for the chips by supposing that it was the work of surveyors. When the burn w«. j nt hroug'n, however, it cleared things up %vi left the curiosity in question exposed. The canoe is finished outside and nearly ;ompleted insidu, where three or four n-hes' accumulation of soil gives a bona ile of ago. Near lhe canoe was another nngth of log, s-imilar in s : ze, evidently •itended fir tin- smio purpo.-c. WILTON'S I3OVOJPERRUM fcr | pale faced girls.. 2? £0. J

A petition is being extensively signed in Christchurch, and will be shortly presented to the Government, praying for the release of H. Styche, convicted for attempted wife murder. The signatories are not confined to any particular section of the community, but include members of all professions and trades. i Persons in want of first-class household furniture should not fail to attend the sale by Mr Newton King on Thursday afternoon on account of Mr J. Brennan, who has leased his property and is leaving the district. Amongst the numerous items are two good buggies and a tax cart, wilh the requisite harness for each, also several cows and heifers in milk and in calf. A number of civil cases were set down for hearing in the S.M. Court on Monday. Judgment for plaintiff was recorded in the following cases : W, Cottier v. Mrs. Voyle, claim £6 13s 3d anil costs 18s 6d ; same v. Mrs Stanley, claim £2 5s 6d and costs ; same v. W. Smith, claim £2 11s 6d and costs 5s ; same v. O. Moeller, claim £1 Is 8d and costs ss. Mr Quilliam (Govett and Quilliam) appeared for the plaintiff. The arrangements for the Friendly Societies' dance, to iake place in the Drill Hall next Tuesday, are well in hacd, everything that can be done to make it a success is being done. Cathro's 'bus will leave Fitzroy, and Jones' 'bus from Moturoa at convenient times. Most of the societies have reported their willingness to wear their regalia. Fuller details will be found in the advertisement in this issue. In the Police Court on Monday J Christiansen was fined 5s and costs 2s for baing drunk and disorderly on Saturday night. It seems the young man and others were making the welkin ring with their vocal harmony in Brougham- street, but their vocal accomplishments were not appreciated by Sergtant Haddrell and Constable Buttimore, the consequence being that the pair of officers formed a guard of honour for Christiansen as far as the Police Station. The Kawhia Settler in advocating the stocking of a large portion of the Rohepotae (King Country") with deer, says : "Had the King Country been stocked with big game some 20 or 30 years ago, it would, when required for the settlement of the people, be greatly enhanced in value, as the game would break down the undergrowth, destroy the fern and spread the mosc valuable of the pasture herboges. We should urge upon the lovers of the finest field sport (big game hunting) that they bring their influence to work upon the Government to allow the Rohepotae io be stocked with deer." Just two hundred years ago Glasgow attracted widespread attention over the drink question ; not in the abolition of barmaids, but by insurrection against tax ation of malt. At the beginning of the eighteenth century Glasgow was noted fjr its "two-penny" ale, so named from its biing sold at two-pence a pint— a Scottish p nt, being equal to two English quarts. The Government of the day saw its way to raising money by laying a tax of 6d a bushel on malt. This was inflicting a penalty of £20,000 a yar on the drinkers of " two-penny," and Glasgow rebelled. The military were sent to oopose the insurgents, several persons were killed and more injured. But the civilians were obstinate and savage, the Government repealed the tax, and Glasgow won its " two-penny triumph: A despatch received at San Francisco from New York on April 26 states that twenty New Zealand spring carcases arrived in New York a few days ago. The animals had been slaughtered in New Zealand, placed in the cold storage on board ship at Auckland, shipped to England, and re- shipped to New York. The consignee found a ready sale for the meat, and all pronounced the meat firstclass excellent in flavour, and of prime condition. As the carcases had come 19,000 miles, and been re-shipped three times, it might have been supposed that they would bring a much higher price in New York than American lamb, especially as thsre is a duty to pay. Such was not the case, however. The meat said at the' same price at New York as American lamb. The dealers Bay that on account of the success of this experiment, they will import much larger quantities from New Zealand next season. The insufficient stamping of a docu ment came up in the S.M. Court on Monday. A lessor and lessae hadadis-. pute over a property, and in the course of the case a document was produced bearing only a one shilling stamp instead of a two and stxpeany stamp. Mr Weston, for the lessor, proposed to follow the usual course by p uttiug the document in and undertaking to have the document properly stamped and a fine of £5 paid into Court. He was, however, prepared to argue later on whether the lessor or lessee was liable to the fine His Worship said that be would rule that the proper stamping must ba affixed, and the fine paid. Mr Weston said he would undertake to do so. It is only fair to state that the document had not been prepared by a member of the legal profession, but by a layman, the parties to the agreement f ol lowing this course v in" order to save expense." It should also be added tha*. the layman strongly advised the parties to go to a solioitor, but his advice they would not accept. In regard to the Bell Block concert to night, special arrangements have been made with the two bus proprietors and townspeople can be driven to Bell Block and back for the reasonable sum of Is. The 'buses leave the National Bank corner at 7 o'clock. The concert itself is an exceptionally good one, and the programme includes a number of tableaux arranged by Mrs W. SLiuuir. We are informed that the Maori item will be a most amusing one; and that special precautions have been taken to strengthen the stage for the two Maoris whe are to perfo-ru, as they broke the stage down on their last appearance, i hey are to give an illustration of Maori custom at the presentation .of food; and Maori amusements, such as the haka and poi dance. The committee (consisting of Misdames Rawatron, Hoby, Corawal 1 , Catehpole, Potts, Downs and the Key F. A. and Mrs Bennett) have spared no pains lo make the concert a huge anccess. Mr Edward Tregear writes to the New Zealand Times : — I do not know why Mont Pelee, in Msrtinque, the volcano which has lately wrought such awful de vastation, was thus named. Probably, as Martinque is a French colony, the aieaning of the name is "the bald bea'V because its summit stood out as a bare rook above the luxuriant tropical vegetation of the lower lands. It is, however, a curious coincidence to find that Pele (both vowels • pronounced) was the Polynesian goddess of volcanoes. Her home is in AJauua loa, the huge volcano at flaw;.ii, anil a fearfully destructive divinity she has always b-en. fr-o widely known i 3 her name that even as far west as the Malay Archipelago we can find the wofd tuta pele, 'exudation of Pele," as a name for suK phur. It will be hard to convince the people of Honolulu that the likeness of uaniH between the West Indian vole mo and that of their cruel deity was mere coincidence; they will say it was ihe woish of ill omens to give the hill su-h a name. Within days of my o t n recollection, when the lava floods from Kiluuea were pour ing down on'the lower lands and eating up villages, a Pi incess of th.c Royal Hoiisa of Hawaii offered herself as a sacrifice to Pele. The Prince.°s hersalf was (genealo gically) one of the descendants of the goddess, so the sacrifice, was accepted and the lava flood was . stopped. Doubt is impossible. I have a newspaper account of it. To "Tattersall," there's many a man Who owes his bank account, And they who lowly life began Climbed quickly up the mount. We trust that those who chaitfn of gold To perils may allure, Si'.ch as toeglect of cough or cold, Tat'e Woods' Gr eat Peppermint ! Cure.* Ball programmes, invitation cards J land tickets at the Her&ia Office^ r

On the front page to-day will be found volanteer, golf, and football notes, and gold dredging and commercial news. The Operatic Ciub had an excellent paactice of " The Gondoliers " on Monday night. The attendance of members was a record, and the work executed indicated that rapid progress was being made with the opera. Miss K. Connel', one of the principals, came up from Hawera to attend the practice. The mortal remains of the late Mr J. J. Russell were interred in Te Henui cemetery this (Tuesday) afternoon. A large number of residents of the town and 1 settlers from the country paid a last tribute to the memory of the deceased. The Rev F. G. Evans conducted a service in the mortuary chapel, and "at the conclusion he made a short but impressive address. The same gentleman also conducted the service at the grave side. The decreise in number of tuis in our bush is often deplored. A more cheering statement, however, was made by Mr R. C. Bruce (Rangitikei), at the Acclimatisation Society's meeting last night,, tfnd was heartily welcomed. In his district this year, said Mr Bruce, the tuis were in such extraordinary numbers that in some of the pine bush they were not in hundreds, but thousands — so numerous, indeed, that it was difficult to carry on a conversation because of the delightful noise they made. He could not explain the reason, but it was a fact that they had had increased in a most remarkable manner. — Post. The Charges Against Mr Woolley. The following are the quotations from Mr Stewart's letter and from The New V©iGe referred to in an editorial : — - [Mr Stewart's First Quotation.] . . 1 On January 25, The New Voice published and endorsed, editorially the statement that the " Boers have given the lie to the English arraignment of their virtue and their manhood. . . . They have won the admiration of all who love human liberty and honour human courage. They aro entitled to our sympathy, our encouragement, our help." ' The words omitted are : — 'They have made for the world's enlightenment an exhibition of valour and patriotism worthy of a place beside Thermopylae and Valley Forge, they have shown us the highest possibilities of courage, devotion and unselfish love of country. They have proved themselves the finest strategists and the most indomitable fighters of modern times. Their love of liberty is as intense now as when their forefathers evhausted the possibilities of martyrdom and valour in resisting the Duke nt Alva and defying the most powerful nation of the world.' The second quotation cannot be verified in the absence of the issue of September 26 th. The third quotation is : — ' " The New Voice " alleged on February 15 that had Britain known the fighting capacity of the •3oer the Transvaal war would never have taken place. On May 3 it. stated that the Boers were fighting in the open without natural or artificial defences, and were possessed of no advantage over the British except that of greater valour and mobility.' The words used on Feb. 15 were : 'This much is probably true, that had Great Britain known the JBoer ia September last as she knows him now, the Transvaal war would never have taken place.' And on May 3rd : ' The lay reader of the military news is likely to gather the impression that Roberts has about all that he can do to take care of himself in the Free State. The British army now in the field numbers many times the force that the Boers are believed to hare, and it is to be noted that the Boers are not now fighting behind defences, either natural or artificial, but are practically in the open and are frequently the aggressors, having in this no advantage over the British except the remarkable valour of their soldiers and the extreme mobility of their army.'