WELLINGTON.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3419, 6 December 1879, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

This day.. Thames High School Matters.

A Deputation to the Minister of Education.

A deputation consisting of Sir George Grey, Messrs Sheehan, Speight, and Brodie, waited upon Mr Bolleston this morning, to bring under his notice the necessity of doing something to assist the Thames High School, and pointed out to him that the Board of Governors bad purchased building with teachers rest* dence for £1200, and that they had not their endowment handed over to them yet, and that the Governors were desirous starting the school at once; they were therefore anxious that the Government should relieve them of the respomibiliy they had undertaken with regard to the purchase of tho school altogether, or give them as a capitation alowtince the same as that provided f«r New Plymouth and given to the Auckland Girls' High School, which would unable them to get along satisfactorily. They estimated the attendance at abouMOO.

Mr Bblleston said he understood the school had not yet been started, and said be thought perhaps the governors might wait until the report of the Commissioners on Secondary Education bad been received and.dealt with. > He believed in starting a school upon a good foundation, and provided with a first class teacher with, an excellent salary, so as to give a stand and tone to the institution from its inauguration. He was also desirous of seeing all smaller institutions in the north placed in a similar position.to.the institutions of a like character in Otago and Canterbury, which were handsomely endowed, so that boys and girls in the North should enjoy equal educational advantages with those of the south. The deputation returned thanks and withdrew. An Officer and a Gentlemen? The court martial which has been inquiring into a certain charge against Leahy, an officer in the Natal Brigade corps, formerly of the Thames, met today for the second time and, after taking considerable evidence, adjourned till Tuesday to enable farther evidence to be forthcoming. They will be able to send in their report to the Governor on the same day. Alexander Ogilvie was charged with having on the 2nd January, 1879, at Sydney, N.8.W., forged a certain mark purporting to be the mark of Xteubea Herod with intent to defraud the Opera* lire Building and Land Investment Society to the sum of £3 3s Bd'; the same prisoner was also charged with forging a certain mark purporting to be the mark of E. Finlay on a receipt for the sum of £100 with intent to defraud the above mentioned Society. The desposition taken in Sydney were read and it appears from these that prisoner was recently manager of the Building Society referred to, and in that capacity was entitled to grant loans to applicants and pay interest on the deposit. He was committed and will be scot to Sjdnej by the first steamer. i