EDUCATIONAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6434, 5 January 1900, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL.

{B( Telegraph.—Prett Anttwialionl. Timaul', Thursday,

At the Educational Institute to-day the annual report and balancesheet was adopted, It was resolved that, if necessary, the Education Act should be amended to empower Hoards to appoint and transfer without consulting committees; aud that all braucbes be urged to petition both Houses in favour of a colonial scalo of salaries, A motion in favour of a School Children's Transvaal Relief Fund was carried with acolumntiou, as iilso was a motion that the Institute should be empowered to join a union of teachers' institutes throughout tho Empire. The question of superannuation fund was postponed. Tho new constitution submitted by the committes was adopted, The no.vfc aunual meeting is to bo held at Wellington in January, 1901. Mr W. T, Grundy, Wellington, was elected president, Mr T. 11. Gill (Wellington) secretary, Messrs B. D. Stewart (Auckland), W. Davidson (Otago), and G. Watson (Wellington) members of thu executive. A prosontation was made to Mr Grundy, for bis vnluablu services as secretary, of a silver salvor and a purso of sovereigns, aud a sot of silver serviette rings to Mrs Grundy.

IS " WAR THE OUr TtUNO THAT HAS NO COM) IS I'lT

fiiy Tim iiisiior of aiimaou j They suy that" wnr is hell," ihf" great accursed," Tho sin impossible in bo forgiven— Yet 1 enn look beyond il ill its worst, And still find bine in heaven. And ns 1 note how nobly miLuros form Under the war's red ruin, F deem it Into

That lie who made the earthquake and

the storm IVncliimec makes tint lies too.

The life lie loves is not llie life of span Abbreviated by eaeh passing breath It is the true Immunity of Jinn,

Victorious over death. The long expectance of I lie upward gaze Sense ineradicable of tiling alar, Fair lio|>e of finding after man}' days The bright and morning Slur. Mclhinb 1 see how spirits may be tried, Transfigured into beauty on war's Verne.

Like llmvers, whose tremulous grace is learnt beside The trampling of the surge.

And now, not only Englishmen at need llayc won a fiery and unequal fray, —No infantry bus ever done such deed Since Albiiera'sday! Those who live on amid our homes to dwell Have grasped llie higher lessons Unit endure,

—The gallant I'rivale lennis to practise

well His heroism obscure

His heart heats high as one for whom is

made A mighty music solemnly, what lime The oratorio of the cannonade.

Eolls through the hills sublime. Vet his the dangerous posts that few can mark,

The crimson dentil, the dread unerring

aim, The falsi ball that whizzes through the dark, The just-recorded minieThe faithlul following of the Hag all

day, The duty done that brings no nation thiiuks, The" Aunt Nesciri" of somo grim and

grey A Kcmpis of the ranks. These arc the tilings our commonweal lo guard, The patient strength that is too proud lo press The duty done tor duty, not reward,

The lofty littleness. And they of greater slate who never

turned. Taking their path of duly high and higher, What, do we deem that they, too, may have learned Tu that baptismal lire. Not that the only end beneath the sun Is to make every sea a trading lake, And nil our splendid English history one

Voluminous mistake. They who marched up the blurt's last stormy peak. —Home of them, ere they readied the mountain's crown The wind of battle breathing on their

cheek Suddenly laid them down. Like sleepers—not like those whose race

is runFast, fast asleep amid the cannon's roar, Them no reveille anil no morning gun Shall ever waken more. And the hoy-beauty passed from oil' the face Of those who lived, and into it inslend Cunc proud forgetlulness of ball and raee, Sweet commune with the dead. And thoughts beyond their thoughts the Spirit lent. And manly tears made mist upon their eyes, And to them came a ureal presentiment

Of high self sacrifice. Thus, as the heaven's many coloured

llniiics At sunset are but dust in rich (lis

gmse, The ascending earthquake dust of battle frames God's pictures in the skies. William Armagh. Palace, Armagh, October 2Sth.