General News.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2074, 30 May 1887, Page 2

General News.

The Gaelic Society of Dunedin have just obtained from the chief of the society, Dr Menzies, a number of books in Celtic literature, including the Highland Society’s Gaelic English Latin dictionary. Tenders were recently invited within New South Wales for the supply of 500 axle boxes for the Railway Department. The price paid previously for the imported article had been £1 Is IJd. Messrs Hudson Bros, tho lowest colonial tenderers, have contracted to supply them at £1 Is. It has been the custom in Napier to give holidays to the schools on all race days. At a late meeting to elect a School Committee, Mr Fielder said, “ I think this is a subject ou which all parents are interested, and 1 was very glad to notice ou the occasion of the last races that the committee only gave a holiday on the first day. I think the less our children know about races the better. (Warm ‘ hear, hears.’) I think it will be a very bad thing for New Zealand if our children grow up to look upon race days as gala days.’ ’ He moved, “ That in the opinion of this meeting it is very undesirable that any holiday should be given to children attending the Napier District School on the occasion of race days, and that the committee be requested to give effect to this resolution." The reading of this motion was followed by loud “hear, hears" all over tho theatre, and it was carried almost unanimously.