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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3715, 19 February 1898, Page 3

“ Are yon a conciliator ?” demanded a husky voiced elector of Captain J icktron Barry at the conclusion of his address at Wellington, on Thursday morning. “I’ll give yon a lift uudor the ear if you come barracking me,” retorted the veteran, who bad just previously offered to give any mao of his own age a start of ton yards and run him for £IOO. Writing from London und-r date January 1, Mr Thomas Mackenzie writes to the Post “by yesterday’s New Zealand mail I received the following extract from the Post : —‘ Mr T. Mackenzie, tbe ex momoer for Clutha, has been nominated by the Government as one of the Governors of the Imperial Institute. It iB understood that Mr Mackenzie has become a supporter of tbe Government, and th- ro is some talk of his staudiog in the Government interest at tbe next general election.’ The first sentence is correct. The remainder is incorrect.” The resolts of the examinations held in December in connootion with the three native scholarships established b/ Mr Douglaa M Loud, MHR, in mummy oi bis faiher, tbe late Sir Donald M'Loan, have just been announced The senior soboUrship hue been won by M'Gruther, of Kawhiu, who bus been educated at St Stephen’s school, Auckland. Another of the Burn') school —Natene P- kt - toki. of Tr Kdia, Bay of Plenty, has carried off the Junior Op-n Scholaiship—and Niha Wiremn, who is attending tbo nativo sohool at Uuugiiukia, East Coast, is winner of the Village Scholarship (junior). Each of the throe scholarships in worth £35 a year, aud is tunable at T Ante College for two years Mr J. H. Pope, lospector of Native schools, who examined the papers, spunks in the highest terms of the anility displayed by M Gru tlier and Puketoi.