CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

THE WAKANUI SCHOOL AFFAIR.

To the Editor.

Sir, —Although the report of the in dignation meeting held at this place on the 9th inst., and published in your issue of last Saturday, was true, yet it was not u the whole truth,” inasmuch as it con tained no allusion to the following : After Mr, Brown had been cudgeled from right and left, he rose to speak, and asked me this question, “Did I not offer you LI toward paying for the use of the school if you would give another. ” I re plied “ yes, you did ” —(I did not take Mr. Brown’s offer, because I was opposed to the charge from principle, and was dis posed to contest the point). Mr. Brown then continued—“ Well, I’ll give you an acre of ground to build a church on ; will you take it ?” I replied—“ Yes, 1 will. I call upon this meeting to bear witness that I accept of that acre of land in the name of the Wesleyan Church.” Mr. Brown then stepped forward and shook hands over the bargain. I think, sir, that I am in duty bound to make public this statement in fairness to Mr. Brown, to show that he is not alto gether such a son of Belial as lie lias been represented, although I still think his action was injudicious and uncharitable, when he knew the state and position of the district. I must confess that to me it looked like a remnant of that spirit of in tolerance, which lighted the martyr fires, and drove the Covenanters from their homes, and inspired in some of our fore fathers deeds of moral hei’oism which have made their names immortal—a spirit which is made up of about equal parts of ignorance, bigotry, and cruelty. But as Mr. Brown professes to “share the spirit of independence,” the words of Bobby Burns may be applicable to him “ The man of independent mind, He looks, an’.laughs at a’that.” While dealing with this subject, I can not forbear making mention of the name of Mr. John Kilgour, member of the Com mittee, through whose honorable and praiseworthy instrumentality, the amic able settlement of this “ ignoble strife” has been brought about, and I think that the thanks of the householders and hisco religionists of the district are due to him for the part he has taken. Now that the matter is Settled, let us

hope that all bitter feelings will be , banished, and bygones will be allowed to be bygones. And let us pray that come it may, As come it will, for a’ that, That sense and worth o’er a’ the earth, May bear the gree, an’ a’ that. ' For a’ that, and a’ that, It’s coming yet, for a’ that, That man to man th’ world o’er. Shall brithers be for a’ that. —I am, &c., George W Leadley

THE STORY-TELLER.

THE DISRUPTION: A TALE OE TRYING TIMES.

CHAPTER XXIII.

As o’er my palm the silver piece she drew, And traced the line of life with charming view, How throbbed my fluttering pulse with hopes and fears, To learn the color of my future years ! CRABBK. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ! • SMOLLETT. Among the multitndes who came to Edinburgh to see the Queen, or to profit by the concourse which the pre sence of.her Majesty attracted was the gipsy fortune-teller, Mother Meredith, formerly spoken of. Jean Brown hap pened to see her from the window, and was sharp enough witted to imagine at at once how her professional talents might be turned to account. The sorceress was accordingly called up and after being well prompted by Jean, demanded an interview with Mrs. Ren shaw. This lady was still a-bed, wait ing the coming of her nephew, and hoping also for a visit from Stiffriggs, but not quite resolved whether to be well or unwell, when the request of Mother Meredith to see her was an nounced. What can the auld roudas want wi’ me ? ” she inquired when Jean Brown informed her of the circum stance.

“Ye had better let her explain what she wants hersel’,” answered Jean; “for though she’s a droll body, she’ a neigh bor, ye ken, and may ha’e some busi ness to speak aboot.” “Send her in, then, and we’ll see,” answered the love-sick mistress of Whinnyside, and immediately the for tune teller was in her presence. “And what is’t ye want wi’ me, Luckie?” said Mrs. Renshaw, with a tone of peevish asperity. answered the old wo man, “but to tell you something that concerns you.” “Concerns me ! What is’t ye mean? JWhat can ken aboot my affairs ? ” . “Mair than ye ken yoursel’, I’m thinkin’, mistress.” “ Nonsense ! This is some o’ your spaein’ ye want to play aff on me, but I’m nae sic a simpleton as to believe In the black art.”

“ Mine is nae black art, but a fair reading o’ what’s to be; and it’ll hap pen whether ye believe’t or no. Nane o’ my words ever fa’ to the grund.” “Plague on vour fortune spaein’! What business hae ye wi’ my affairs ? ” “O nae business —nane ava.” “And what for do ye mak’ onything ado wi’ me or my concerns then ! ” « Mrs. Renshaw, if ye dinna want to ken some things that I ken o’ that’s to befa’ ye, there’s nae ill dune. I can gang as I cam’, and carry my secrets wi’ me. But what I ken I ken, and I cam’ by my knowledge honestly.” . Tell me this, then—What set ye to spae my fortune ava ? ” : “ Ye may weel ask that, for it’s no my custom to do ought o’ the kind without being employed. But this is a partic’lar case. It cam’ to me unsocht,

and it’s mair likely to be true; and as ye happen to be a neighbor o’ mine, I thocht it no richt to keep ye in the dark. But since ye hae nae wish to hear what it is, I’ll just be steppin’.” “ Stop a wee. Ye needna be in sic a fell hurry. Though I dinna believe it can be onything but havers, ye may tell me what it is when ye’re here at ony rate. Ye said it cam’ to ye unsocht. Hoo could it do that ? Dinna ye need to cut the cards before ye can tell onything ? ” “ There’s ae way o’ leadin’ by the cards, but that’s no the only way. There’s much can be seen in tea leaves, especially if it be green tea; but as I get nane to drink but the common kind, I ha’ena seen the partic’larest bits o’ your fate, but 1 ha’e gotten insicht intil the feck o’ what is to beta’ ye.” “ Gae way, gae way, wi’ your lees and nonsense. Would onybody in their senses believe je could read folk’s fortune in a pickle tea leaves ?” “ Believe’t or no believe’t, it’s true, and ye wadna misdoot it if ye kent tho hauf o’ what has come .to pass in proof that my readin’ o’ tea leaves is true. But I’m lang eneuch here, for I see ye dinna want to ken what I hae to tell.”

“Ye may tell me nevertheless, since ye’ve been at the trouble o’ ca’in’ here for the purpose. I needna believe what ye say unless I like, and I’ll no believe’t if it’s the least unbe-like. Was the fortune gude or ill ye read o’ me ? ”

“ Partly baith, but the gude ivas to prevail owre the ill, if certain things took place; and the ill owre the gude, suppose some ither things should hap pen.” “ I dinna understand that, but we maun lown in case onybedy overhear us. I say I dinna understand the meaning o’the certain things and cer tain ither things that would mak’ the gude or ill prevail.” “ Na, neither do I, but this I ken— there was on the ae haun happiness and marriage, and on the ither a single life and mony sair trials.” “ Hoot, blethers ! I ken it’s a’ an imagination ; but which did ye say was the likeliest!”

“ That’s what I never could see, for the tea I drink, as I said before, is coarse common stuff, ane disna show partic’lars.” “ Could ye no try’t owre again, even now, if ye had the richt kind ?” “ Nae, doot, nae doot I could, if ye thocht it worth while.”

“ Indeed, I dinna then, for I think it’s nonsense, but ye may just try’t the best way, since ye are here, at ony rate. ”

“Aweel, I’ll do my best, if ye’ll order me a bowfu’ o’ strong green tea wi’ the leaves in’t.”

The order was immediately given, and Jean Brown proceeded with alacrity to carry it into effect., smiling to herself meanwhile at the success of her stratagem, and the craft with which Mother Meredith had converted it into a means of obtaining a luxurious re freshment. Jean took care to second her views by providing suitable accom paniments for the tea, and soon set be fore .her a repast worthy of the ingenuity with which it had been earned. The spaewife’s grace over it was a mystic incantation, which she finished by put ting a ring into the bowl. Mrs. Ren shaw lay still and eyed her at her meal with a mixture of curiosity and suspi cion, and could not help remarking with her usual bluntness— “ This’ll just be ane o’ your gipsy tricks now, I jalouse.” Mother Meredith drained the dish in silence ; but after looking attentively into the residuum, she said in an angry tone —“ If ye suspect a trick, tell me, and let me be gone at anee. I see here what it would be gude for you to ken; but, if ye doot my word, the less I say the better.” “ After drinking the tea,; ye may say ony way. As I said afore, I can either believe’t or no, when I hear what it is.” “ No; if I’m to be treated like a cheat, I’ll keep my knowledge to mysel’. The tea was gude and ye have my thanks for’t; but t'he mysteries I can read in the grunds, as plain as ye can read a printed book, shall never pass my lips to them- that scorn my skill or doot my word.” “ Whist! speak lower, Luckie, and dinna flee aff that way. I’ll pay ye for your trauble—at least, it I get ony satisfaction frae ye—so just sit down and again tell me what ye see in the dish.” “ Weel, Mrs. Renshaw, this reading is something the same as the ane before, ' but plainer. I see you here ” “Where? Let me see.” “ There, just as clear as if it were your picture in a looking-glass.” “ 1 hat me ? That’s but a braid shaped tea-leaf.” “ It’s that just to them that can see nae better; but to the skilfu’ e’e, it is just what I say. If ye could see it properly, ye would be as deep-read in the mysteries as mysel’; and ye ken that’s no to be expbekit.” “ Aweel, what mair do ye see ? ” “ I see a gentleman before you.” . “ What like is he ? ”

“He is tall and buirdly; no unlike Sanderson o’ Sanderson—only he’s no splay-fitted like him.”

“ Look again, and see if ye canna find oot what he’s like.”

“ I would say it was the Southland carrier, Rob Rutherford; but he’s no dressed like Rob. I daursay it’s just him brushed up a thocht, and mair genteel.”

“ Look better, Luckie, is, there nae body else it’s iiker ?” “ Naebody, unless it be Stimperton o’ Stiffriggs. And trowth that’s the vera man, if I ha’e ony skill.”

“ Tuts, blethers !” “ Aweel, aweel, if ye think it blethers ye needna hear ony mair. So. just say stop, and I’m dune.” “ Na, na ; since ye ha’e begun, mak’ a finish; A What mair do ye see ?” “ I see ither twa between you and the gentleman.” “ Ither twa ! What are they ? wha are they?” “ The ane nearest you is like a young man, and the ane nearest Mr. Stimper ton is like a young woman.” “ Ay, and what mak’ ye oot o’ that ? Are they like to draw thegither and mak’ a match o’t ?”

“ I canna say, I’m shure, for I see nae band between them. They may or they may no draw thegither ; but I see a band between you and the stout tall gentleman.” “ Div ye ! Let me see’t, then.” “ There it is, and there’s nae mis taking o’t.”

“ I see naething but a bit shank o’ a leaf crookit in the middle.”

“ That’s just what I tell you, then. It’s a band between you and the gentle man, arid ye see it is bow’d awa to the left side o’ the twa mots—the young man and the woman—that stalin’ be tween you.” “ And what is the meaning o’ that?”

“ The meaning is that naething else but thae young folk prevents a match between you and the buirdly gentle man.”

“ And see ye ony signs o’ them gaun oot the gate ?” “ Ay, the mot that stands for the young man is pairtly on the road to something like a kirk or a great house of some kind ; and the mot that stands for the young woman is half floating in melted sugar.” “ And does that signify that she is to gang'awa’?” {To be continued—commenced on July 26.)

The Wakanui School Affair.

’ r he Wakanui School Committee, we are glad to observe, have allowed wiser counsels to prevail in their deliberations, and have rescinded their resolution to charge three shillings per service from the religious bodies who made use of the school building as a meeting place on Sundays. They have, more over, decided to take no further steps in the prosecution of those householders \vho took a leading part in the public meeting held in the school on the 9th instant. The rescinding of this resolu tion ought to restore the good under standing that should subsist between neighbors, whether in town or country, and we hope those whose feelings and temper have been ruffled over the affair will accept the advice which Mr. Leadley gives in his letter, and let by gones be by-gones. Now that the matter is ended, and the householders are to be asked to attend a public meeting for the purpose of pointing out some other means of wiping off the debt upon the school than levying a tax upon devotions, we hope the appeal of the Committee will be manfully met, and that they will be able to go on with the work -intrusted to their hands un trammelled with financial difficulties. In this little village fight, whatever principle the householders may have contended for, the Committee un doubtedly had the law on their side, and the Education Act gives them as custodians of the school property, full power to deal with the building in the manner they did. While they hold the position of School Com mitteemen they hold the power to permit or deny the use of the building to any one, and no one has any right to resist their action. The question of right of worship does not come in at all. Granted that the Com mittee only hold office by the suffrages of the householders, when the former are elected the latter’s power over them ceases so long as no breach of the law is committed, and that power comes back again only at the next election. When, therefore, the householders aggrieved by the Committee’s action found that the Committee were unwill ing to bend to the popular wish, they should have waited patiently for the opportunity that the Act gives them and removed them at election time, filling their places with men whose ideas on the subject of religious freedom were more in consonance with their own. But leaving- the legal aspect of the affair altogether, we are of opinion that a great deal of unnecessary feeling has been exhibited by both sides, and had a little more forbearance been shown, by the Committee on the one hand for the expressed feelings of their con stituents, and by the worshippers on the other who ought as law-abiding citizens to have respected constituted authority, there would have been no necessity for the display of acrimony that has been witnessed. Had the meeting which is to be called now been the first step taken, we have no doubt the Committee would have been supplied with funds without trouble.

THE ASHBURTON HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1880.



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. Tenders, TENDERS FOR INLAND SERVICES FOR 1881 AND 1882. General Post Office, Wellington, August 17, 18S0. SEALED TENDERS will be received at the Chief Post Office, Christ church, until THURSDAY, September 30, proximo, for the conveyance of mails between the undermentioned places, for a period of two years, from January 1,1881, to December 31, 1882. Postal District of Christchurch. I. Christchurch and Green Park, thrice weekly 2. Christchurch and Green Park, daily 3. Christchurch and Courtenay, thrice weekly 4. Christchurch and Courtenay, daily *5. Christchurch and Sumner, twice daily 6. Christchurch and New Brighton, thrice weekly 7. Christchurch and New 1 lighton, daily *B. Christchurch and Akaroa, thrice weekly *9. Lyttelton and Pigeon Bay, thrice weekly *lO. Lyttelton and Little Akaloa, weekly 11. Lyttcdton and Port Levy, weekly 12. Lyttelton and Gebbie’s Flat, weekly 13. Lyttelton and Gebbie’s Flat, twice weekly 14. 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