TEACHERS'EXAMINATION RESULTS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9676, 23 February 1899, Page 3

TEACHERS' EXAMINATION RESULTS

(Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 23. Tenchers Passes (Wanganui District) ClassD —Alice Bartlett, Harold Bowater, Annie Carson, Eleanor Cbappil, William nare, Hugh Smith, E. Clash, Olive Old' ridge, John Clayton, Eva Fitness, George Gibbs, Henry Lyall, Roderick Matheson, Gortrude Mowbray, Una Powle, Thomas Slipper, Margaret Stevenson ■ WiHmm Swiubourno, Mary Voltz, Gertrudo Watts, GeorcoWhalley. , _ 4 Partial D— Frederick Arthur Bates, Charles Bowaler, Henry Thomas, Peter MatheßOn, John Joseph O'Reilly, Albert Wil3on, , , „ „ , Partial E-Eleanor Anderson, Sybil Baker, Mary Bourke, Elizabeth Christie, Maud Clcary, Robert Foster, Clarft Gatton, Jane Goidon, Bditti Innes, Charles Liflains, Lila Mossmann, Holon Oakley, Thorsten Kellinfi, Amy Birftatdson, John Robson, Esther Wallace.

Mr T.W. Furry informs us {hat he lias been asked to book tho Oddfellows' Hall for the 'two race nights next month for t)ic Woods-Williamson Dramatic Company.

The Economic Building Society hold its eleventh ballot laal evening, Mr H. 1 . Peakciu tho chair. The first number drawn was 458, but as the owner of the share was not present and had not lodged the lequired written authority wiiW tin secretary, another number had to be drawn. Tli'is reunited in Mr Watson, of tlio Eastown Workshops, being allotted 'ho full aiuount— J3oo— as the holder of two shares, The meeting then eloped";

Tho following is the report on the Wanganui labour Market in the Journal of tho Department of Labour: — Buildiing tradeß— Still very busy, and will be iior some time to come. Engineering tradcS--Full. time being made. Boot t/ade — Steady business doing. Clothing trade— GoOth Half-yearly sales are booming. Tailors are very busy, overtime being worked. General retail trade — Good substantial trade doing. Unskilled labour— All willing to v,-ork tan find employment.

Tlio weather was wot yosterndy morning for tho Wairarapa Show at Masterton. The attendance numbered 3,000. Tho display was the best ever seen at Mastortou, both its regards quality and quantity. Tha champion awards woro: —tfifaiight stallion, Cameron Bros.; drail<>hf 6oU, Wall's Record Reign; shorthorn bull, V. Armstrong's Duke of Schomberg; heifer, M'Hardy Bros.' Lady Connaught; Hefcford bull, J. Stuckoy's Bahglo; Hereford cow, J. Stuckey's Glailiolas; Lincoln ram, Perry Bros; ewt>, Rnyner Bros; Romney Marsh mm, J. Sykes; ewe, AY. B. Allen.

The steamer Taiyuan, from Clnn.i (says the Sydney Morning Herald), biings news of a desperate piratical attttok at Hanoi, in which five men wore kiile-d 1 and six wounded. The pirates attacked till) town of Hanoi on the night of the sth nit.';; They comprised a band of Aniiamito robbers and pirates, and came", across from Sontay. On the road they" Jtiite'd a postal delivery coolie to prevent liiDl Carrying the news of their approach ahead., fitToral smaller villages were attacked and |iillaa<?d. In Hanoi, which is n considerable place. Ilicy" wcro confronted by native nnd forei^tt forces before any very serious damage was done, though four persons nerc killed and,slx o.thors wounded during the conflict. Tiid Trench colonial ruthorities at Tonkin aro blamed for uot taking precautions to arrest thodeslicradoes befora (hey reached Hanoi.