THE HIGH SCHOOL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3542, 4 February 1886, Page 3

THE HIGH SCHOOL.

TO THE EDITOR 01' THE TIMAKU UURALD. Sin, — Might I, with your permission, ask t-lio gallant Captain one small question ? How vras it that Mr Zicslcr was put forward for nomination for the ISfe-mcmbsi'dbip on the High School Board with his gracious sanction and approval, nml why, wlvn )io found the wind not blowing (jaite ai i'aii'ly 113 ho thought, lie so suddenly grew enthusiastic re the abolition of tlio lifo-mombcrship, abolishing one of the main points m his own pel little scheme and Bill ? Perhaps tlio Captain, m nauticnl language, would cull this weathering a slorin, I Innuy, however, that he has found out that discretion is the better part of valor, and that he has put back into port — for some great secret, deep hidden within his manly breast— and ho now proposes to try n new tack. This and many other little, dodges of this " man of the sea," ulways most forcibly remind me of Bret Harto's lines m tlio Heathen Chinee — " For ways tbat ara dark, and for trioka that aro vain, The heathen Chineo is peculiar ; — The Mine I would rise to MainUihi," And yet 0110 more quotation — Mcl m ore, verha lafttcs t'ul ia ooude, fraroa m facles. I am, &c., lIELIOKES PIUORES.