WELLINGTON HOSPITAL ENQUIRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3414, 5 September 1885, Page 3

WELLINGTON HOSPITAL ENQUIRY.

(By Telegraph.) Wbllington, Sept. 4. At the Hospital enquiry to-day, the members of the honorary medical staff were examined. Their evidence generally was that Dr Chilton had lost their confidence. Dr Levinge, temporary medical officer at the Hospital, also bore testimony as to the habits of Dr Chilton. He considered the management had been wasteful and extravagant. With regard to the dismissal of the nurses, Miss Marsden had repre«ented to him (Dr Levinge) that she believed the nurses were being interfered with by certain parties m the Hospital m such a way as to be subversive of discipline. He represented this m turn to the Colonial Secretary, and the upshot was a visit to the Hospital by the Under Secretary and the Inspector of Hospitals, culminating m some of the nurses and ollicials being dismissed. The Chairman of the Hospital Committee distinctly said they were to be dismissed that night. He did not make enquiries as to where the nurses had to go when turned out. He considered that tho duty lay with the person giving orders for their dismissal. The enquiry was adjourned until to-morrow.

INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS.

(By Telegraph.) (from our owu correspondent.) Wellington, Sept. 4. Tho Inspector of Schools reports on secondary schools : — " I have the honor to report that since the 15th of September hist I have inspected the Training Colleges at Duuedin, Christchurch and Auckland, and most of the High Schoolß of the colony. It is unnecessary to give details as to the staff and attendance at each school since then, as my annual report of the several institutions, which will bo made at the end of the Tear, will supply fall statistics. These reports will show clearly the general character of each institution with respect to the scope of instruction imparted and the completeness or imperfections of its organisation. The local authorities generally exercise a very careful supervision of the affairs of the schools, and have entrusted the charge of them to very competent Principals, who m their turn efficiently direct and inspect the work of their subordinates. As a rule, the subjects of instruction are properly adapted to the wants of the pupils, and the instruction m subjects is adequate to the pupuY requirements. Tho distribution of school time is judicious, and the hours provided m the time-table are punctually observed. I may add m most of the schools there is an alacrity of movement that may bo taken to indicate habitual energy on the part of the teachers and habitual attention to their work on the part of the majority of the pupils,"