Makaraka Notes.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 491, 9 August 1890, Page 3

Makaraka Notes.

[from our own correspondent.] AN INTERESTING EVENT. Thi interesting event alluded to in former notes became an accomplished fact on Thursday last in the marriage of Mr Fairlie to the eldest daughter of Mr Jno. Parker. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. J. Ward, at the residence of the bride’s father, and was attended by several friends. The bride looked charming, the gown of brocaded muslin, the whole figure being draped by a bridal veil of choice net, with the usual and inevitable orange blossom wreath. After the ceremony an adjournment was made to the residence of Mr Dunne, where an elaborate wedding breakfast was spread. The affair passed off most agreeably, and the best wishes of all w ill follow the young couple in the second most important epoch of their lives. the racing mania. Your Maraetaha correspondent has committed a slight breach of journalistic etiquette ia ref erring somewhat dispsr&g-

ingly to the remarks made by me in reference to horses and racing. These remarks are characterised *• as whines of a would-be purist.” How unkind ! In the notes in question I did not condemn horse racing in toto. I merely sought to prove that the multiplying of the number of race meetings was hurtful. Your correspondent mentions Carbine as an instance of the superior horses New Zealand has bred. Very true, and we can name a score of others, but where did they go ? They were sent to Australia, where long distance races and valuable stakes awaited them. Are Australian-bred horses brought over to this country to compete against our New Zealand cracks ? Why not ? The answer Is to be found in this, that in New Zealand, with a population of 600,000, there is a racing club for every 800 people, this estimate being based on what obtains in Poverty Bay, where there are three principal racing clubs for about 2,400 people. MEETING OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The usual monthly meeting of the School Committee took place on Tuesday evening, when there were present: Messrs Richardson (Chair), King, Wright, Parker, and Gray. After the transaction of the usual routine business, it was resolved to forward to the Education Board, Napier, a recommendation from the Committee that the Board’s Inspector be authorised not to examine the girls cf the school in drawing, as the sewing required by ’he regulations demands so much of their time. It was also resolved that a claim of £8 Ils 6d be made upon the Education Board, Napier, as the value of twenty-five sewing specimens belonging to the Mata w hero School, and which were sent by the Board to the Dunedin Exhibition, and not returned. It was also resolved that from the Ist September the school hours shall be as follows : Morning, 9to 12; afternoon, Ito 3. The meeting then adjourned.