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Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1023, 16 December 1886, Page 2

“ Puff ’ doesn’t think many women in the colouy wish for literary distinction. He suspects that they would rather be Mistresses of Hearts tbau Masters of Arts I Funny fellow ; but its rather true.

The following members of the Waipawa cricket club are requested by the match committee to go iu for practice for the match against Makotuku on tlic 31st iust. Dr 11. A. Reed, Messrs Lough nan, Wiseman, Steed, Wnrbrick, Guy, Grcnside, Kroupa, Rath bone, Sebley, and J. Bibby. Emergencies, Rood’ Witherow and E. Bibby juur. We have received from the publishers a copy of the Hawkes Bay Almanac aud buiuess directory, for 1887. It is as usual carefully compiled, the calendar being supplied with such items ns days of meetiugs of the public bodies over all the country &c, the phases of the noon, the church seasons, garden notes and all kinds of information. .Some valuable articles appear on tree planting, pruning, the cultivation of tobacco, &c., and there arc other statistics as to the stamp duties, harbour dues, customs duties See., and information as to how to make a will, sheep returns, tables of reckoning for settlers, fees payable in the court &c.. The work is a great iuprovement on its predecessors.

Mr J. H. Nelson, the Hospital secretary, gives us this explanation of the want of unanimity in the different churches in settling a day for Hospital Sunday. He wrote to all the ministers in the district, with the exception of the Rev J. G. Eccles, whom he visited, asking them to set apart a Hospital Sunday, and suggesting the first Sunday in December as a suitable day. Only two of the clergymen condescended to reply,aud Mr Nelson has been awaiting further favors ever since. He has been quite unable to make any definite arrangements, and this is why the Hospital Sunday has not been unanimously set apart. However, collections will be made in all the churches, by degrees, and no doubt the congregations will contribute liberally, all the same.

Another claimant for a reduction in the cost of education writes as follows : Amongst all the outcry lately about our large expenditure, everyone seems to have overlooked one source from which we derive, in reality, no adequate return. The education of the Colony is free to all, and at a cost of nearly half a million annually, while the whole population is groaning uuder financial difficulties. Here is the real sore that requires healing. If the cost of education were reduced to one-half, at least better results in every way would follow. The juvenile crime exhibition of the last few days is proof sufficient. The free education should not go beyond the 4th Standard, but the sth and 6tli should be retained by making a sufficient charge to cover the cost. This, any parent who desires to have his child educated would not grudge. It would help the revenue to an enormous extent, and at the same time give private schools a chance to live. If this course were adopted many excellent teachers, who might be paid off, could earn an equally good, or better living outside the School Boards. The extensions to the Waipawa District Hospital arc rapidly nearing completion, and the frame work of the new county council offices is already erected in Waipukurau, on the site adjoining Mr Nelson’s residence, aud near the Masonic Hall.

Mr Henry Wilding has received the gratifying news from Mrs Westoby, late of Waipukurau, has reached her home in the Isle of Wight, and that the children are at at school. Mrs Westoby begs again to thank those kind friends who subscribed the money for her passage.