MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 4 August 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

— — = — » Cars are being run in New York now on schedule time by compressed air. The English paper which attacked Bis* hop Ifyle. of Liverpool, for marrying three times, has under-stated the case A clergyman ha> forwarded to the Arch* bishop of York a protest, in which l.c says :— " Having read nn announcement in the newspapers that yonr Grace pro* prses to consecrate Dr John Charles Kyle a bishop on St. Barnabas' Day, I venture to draw your attention to Sf, Paul's express statement tbaf a bishop 'must be .... .the unhand of one wife ' (1. Tim. iii.), on which I would respectfully remark that if this Apostolic law does not mean one absolutely and one only, and not one after the other, it has no. meaning whatever, for it would then imply that a person not a bishop might i:ave two or more wires at ihe same time. Now, as Dr Byle has married four wives in succession, it appears to myself and many others that your Grace, as Guam dian of the Truth in the province of, York, might with no impropriety interpose your high authority and desist from conse crating that clergyman, because of this undoubted bar.In Stanstead, Canada, a man sold ten cent packages, ' Warranted sure death to potatoe«bu£B ; no risk of poisoning animal?, as with Paris green.' Tbe .packages were not to h§ opened until time to use them. One victim, having three opened one, and found 2 square blocks of wood, on one of which was written : Place the bug on this block and press firmly with the other.' The return called for in the Legislative Council by Mr Watberhonse is a list of all persons in official positions drawing salaries under the Education Act, with a statement of the amount of salary paid to ' each, also the cost of Education Boards. The Education Department consists of ! five officers, who drew £1890 per annum. Auckland Education Board, with ten officers, draws £2615; Taranaki, with three officers, £430 ; Wanganui, two officers, £430; Wellington, two officers. £750; the secretary receives £54 for forage allowance, with £1 per day travel* ling expenses, also a messenger at £20 ; Hawke's Bay, two, £700, with £150 travelling allowance, and a cadet nt £50; Marlborouffh, three, £132 ; Nelson, two at £625; Westland. two. £740, with £50 for forage ; North Canterbury, eleven. £4100,' with £50 forage and actual travelling expense* for three ; South Canter* hury, two, £657, with allowance for actual travelling expenses ; Southland, iwo, £800; travelling expenses included ; Otaeo, nineteen, £45.880. The incomes of the education boards for 1879 wpre : — Auckland, £77.522; T*mnaki, £8149; Wanganui, £22 744; Wellington, £31, OCO ; HWWs Bay, £35,743 ; Marlborough. £7318 ; Nelson, £21,975 ; North Canterbury, £90 266 ; South Canterbury. £26,790 ; Westland, £19.262 ; Otago, £112 318; Southland, £25,011. The total of this received from the Government is £368.457. The expenditure for 1878 was:— Boards, £11,109 ; inspections Bnd other expenses, £7735 ; teachers' allowances, £187,763 ; committee and schools, £26,926 ; scholarships, £2834 ; new buildings, additions, &<>:, £166,961 • provisional service?, £5906 ; sundry Boards, £1651 ; libraries, £6074 ; balances, £43,275. The number of schools in the colony in 1879 was 817; number of teachers, 1773 ; average attendance, 58,729, The Wellington correspondent of the Southland - Times' telegraphs :— Mr Ormond will ask the Government whether

. _ > 9 they will bring in a bill to tax profes* sional income*, now that the House hag determined upon a reduction of 10 per cent, on the salaries and wages of em* ployes in the Civil Service. At the Christcbarch Police Court the W other day a youth was charged with placing a piece of cobblers' was on the seati of the Wesleyan Church. The culpr.t received a severe reprimand from the bench. What fan the boy must have had P The Danedin Star states, on the au« | thority of the Defence Minister, that there are in the Colony three Colonels, nine Lieu'enantxColonels, twenfy»tliree Majors, 150 Captains and 230 lienten* ants. Wanganui district BUpples the bulk of the Majors* Bellamy's <«ays the correspondent of a contemporary) is not paying this year as it should. Whether it is that members have visions of a reduced honorarium \ haunting them, or tliat Sir William For is successfully using -his influence, the fact remains that never was the temperance cause so popular in the House as now. The steward bitterly complains ' that be doesn't make as much in a fort* night now as last session he did in two days.* ' It is stated that Adelaide Neilson, the famous actress, intends to visit Austrilt* by Hie next San Franciso mail. It M also stated that A rchibald Forbes, now in America, will visit the colony about the end of the year for the purpose of giving lectures. Prince George of Wales, who is about to visit us as tlie rf present i five t)f Royalfv, is said to have taken with re« markable kindliness to the Ufa of a Brin •ish naval ' y ■unssfer,-* .from the first, and accommodated hinnelf to the rainners and custom* of tfip species. When he and Prince Albert Victor first joined the training-ship' Britannia (says the cor« .respondent of" a Victorian paper), their , fellow ca<letjr, with boyish malice, and a vile attempt at a pun on the title of the heir apparent, nicknamed them * Her« ring 'and 'Sprat,' the former name being given to Prince George, who, though the vonntrer, was slightly /more sturdy in physique ' ]>on'fc you call me ' Herring' again,' said Prince George to the youthfnl scion of a noble Irish family, who had made himself con* ■> 'pieums by the use of the offensive sobriquet. * Herring,' promptly retorted the audacious youngster. The authorities were evaded, a Secluded spot wss Fought, and royal and noble blood flowed together, without, however, ma eh damage being done on either side. The moral of the story is that ' boys will be boys * whatever t'leir rank, but it also illuV* (rates the manner in which the younger members .of our Royal Family are , brought .rip— a manner certainly con« -, c rial to English id-ag on the subject of boyish training, and very different tn that, iri which the majority of continental princelings are nurtured.