MISCELANIOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1344, 4 January 1884, Page 3

MISCELANIOUS.

1 Samuel Croombie Br,ownjonrnftlwt, Las been sentenced at Hobart to foor months 1 irapfuonment for passing Taintless cheques. One of the Yorkshire newspapers gives an account of an examination -in which a boy, oa ' being asked to name one of the \minerala of Australia, promptly replied ' Tinned mutton.' "My brethern," said Swift in a fiermon, " thet^ are three , kinds of pridc-^-of birth, of riches, andof talents. I shall not speak of the latter, none of you being liable to that abominable -vice.". •'■■'■■■'■> ■ •

Mr- Mackay, th* principal of the Wellington Cdllege,^whose educational experience probabljj ranks second to that ofnoonein thisoountry, expressed Tiimself as follows <*n (he question of ' religions inHtrnction fit schdols, at the . recent distribution of) prizes in the establishment ' under j his control :— *• Regarding the cry of '/godless schools,' lie bad experince of both kinds of school* His fiWexj^rierice was gained "in a rigid Episcopalian school at Bristol. H^fead also had some experience in/a rigid Presbyterian schooL He had nfow been many years in a nchobl /where no direct religious instruction was given, and he had yet to leanh tbat the proportion of saints produced in a rigidly religious school -^"wsa.- greater than the -proportions in tktf schools where no religious inscraetion was given. As to the cry that the schools of this pattern were degenerating, he could point to young men all over the colony whom he knew "boys, and who where, occupied in positions of importance and influence, -with credit to themselves and advantage, to the public. At the same time, lipwever, he did not undervalue religious instruction, but he denied that the •only true- way -toward the development of religion was though the -Prayer Book. The greater thing w&s to guide the boys' aspirations. Herein came the influence, of personal character on the part of tlie headmaster, and those associated with him. A heacl•maater, moreover, who ■• had been ■selected for the position should be left as unfettered as possible." The ardoar arid skill of lady lawntennis players are unmistakable. Their vigour is unbounded, but it is by some members of the medical profession held that there is a degree of danger to them in this; in view of the fact that yoiag ladies are " built up" too stiffly in s«ays to permit the violent movement of the "body.* The result is ia compromise — a new tennis -corset having been invented -which expand* by means of elastie^lacing; the opening being under each arm, and not at back and front, a» intiK stay usually worn. Ladies next year will he more formidable than ever.