The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-03-31

locating the names Of places. heights Of
mountains. etc, as they were called
fors The height OF Hualalai was given
in roman numerals. and several ques-
tions as to products and natural feat
ures were answered on the board. The
drawings in water colors. maps by the
pupils. were also very good. Mr.. Mills
work reflected much credit upon him.
Mrs Mills showed specimens OF work
done by her sewing class.
Miss Scott took up the subject of
phonics as handled by n. E. Calkins.
He reduces the number of elementary
sounds of the alphabet to forty-five,
and does away with the terms long,
short, Italian, Close, shut, as names OF
sounds, and uses numerals instead, for
the vowel sounds. He teaches most of
the consonant sounds in pairs. The
diacritical marks are not taught till
after the sounds are understood. His
method is clear and concise.
Mr.. Lennon instructed the conyen-
ton in fourth-year arithmetic alonG
the customary lines.
AR. Haze began well in chart work,
but did not continue far enough. Ma
tive teachers in the lowest rooms ap-
pear TO think the chart work is con-
fined to the first three or four pages.
That is great mistake The hand
ling of the chart well is very impor-
tant. The lessons are carefully graded
and can be made very interesting and
instructive.
H. T. Mills gave a very interesting
Third Reader Lesson with a class.
He told the story afterwards and asked
the meaning of certain words. The
phonic sounds of words were given
and lessons read. One pupil wrote on
the board the principal words with
their diacritical marks. from dictation.
Five words were then written by each
pupil and given in sentence. The
result showed good knowledge OF
English. The specimens Of compost
tien and bills, together with the pen
manship of this class. we're excellent.
Fridays papers were comparatively
with one or two excep-
tons. Mrs. Sumter illustrated sentence
work and Mr.. Makuakane showed a
good method in second-year number
work. IA
Five-minute papers on the advant-
age Of teachers meetings were read.
All present signified their intention to
attend the Summer School.
Some matters of business were at
tended to and the work arranged for
hn nxt u-hirh oil f1o Mold
at Holualoa in June.
Quite sensational eiopemen Mt took
place recently from the Portuguese col
onS. The girl was pretty young thing
Of Is years, recently graduated from
Holualoa School, and more recently in
the employ of L. Aungst as domestic.
One morning she was missing and con-
butcher, Joe Monteiros. was also miss
ing. but as he had made plausible eX-
cuse Of going to Hookena to buy cattle,
no suspicion was aroused for twenty
four hours, when 1t all came out. He
had succeeded in borrowing $50 on
false pretenSes from James Robertson,
also various smaller sums from deluded
friends, and then borrowing two horses
from his brother-in-law, had Joined the
fair damsel, in hiding, and was OF to
Kawaihae, just catching the Kinau,
WHICH arrived ia Honolulu Just in time
for him to take the Australia Of the
21st. A wife and six small children
mourn his perfidy.
The dry season still continues. The
coffee has blossomed. and promises are
good for big crop.