MARRIAGE.

Aitken —Darling —On the 11th instant, at Trinity Wesleyan Church, Dunedin, by the Rev. Wm. Keall, Alexander Oswald Aitken, of Ashburton, to Mary, second daughter of the late Alexander Darling, Esq., of Dunedin. 514

The Ashburton Herald AND Borough and County Advertiser (With which is incorporated the "Evening Echo") WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1579.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the first publication of this paper. On the occasion of our recent enlargement and change of name we referred to the liberal support received during the time the journal had been in existence, and, therefore, we will not enlarge upon “ ourselves.” But we cannot let the op portunity afforded us by the recurrence of the nth of March go past without thanking our subscribers and advertising patrons for the staunch support they have accorded to us, and the encou_ ragement they have in many ways given the conductors of the journal. We need only add that nothing will be wanting on our part to make the paper worthy of the support it has secured, and without which it never could have increased from the small-sized sheet we first published in March, 1878, to the double-demy of March, IS7B.

If the contested elections at Nelson and Auckland, hotly contested as they were, are the shadows cast before of coming events, we may safely conclude that the battle of secular against deno minational education, for the upper hand in our school system, is to be fought over again. However, though the two elections referred to point to a continuance of the struggle, they also give unmistakeable evidence as to how the majority of the people feel upon the question, and in what direction their sympathies tend. At both these elec tions the franchise was more exten sively used by the people than it had ever been before, and at both the majority declared in favour of undeno minational education.

We believe the majorities at Auck land and Nelson expressed the feeling of the majority of the New Zealand electors, and their decision may be accepted as a fair index of what would be the result were a plebiscitum taken of the colony. It is no part of the State’s duty to teach religion, nor to expend public money for tnat purpose. When it becomes the duty of the State to assume the spiritual directorate of the people then will dawn the com mencement of an era of strife, discord, and untold evils; and the colony will best guard its own interests by refusing its consent to the introduction of reli gions teaching into its public schools. The present system of education is the only one, as Mr. Goldie said at Auck land, the State can legitimately support, and were denominational education introduced to any great extent the standard of education would inevitably fall by the introduction of inferior, because underpaid, teachers, and of inefficient, because ill-supported,schools. Mr. Curtis, the Member for Nelson, last session introduced a Bill to provide for the establishment of denominational schools. Amongst other things, he meant to give to local committees power to elect their own teachers without any interference or power of revision by the Board of Education. Had his Bill become law there can be no doubt that

the strength of any denomination on a committee would have been measured by the denomination of the teacher. Religious prejudices are, perhaps, the most powerful of any in the human breast, and when they are permitted to have uncontrolled sway they develope mostly selfishness and intolerance in stead of forbearance and liberality ; and in the interests both of teachers and scholars the appointment of teachers ought to be placed beyond the influence of religious prejudices. Neither should any canse exist for offence to the con sciences of the followers ot any religion. The State never can be expected topay directly for special Protestant educa tion, nor for special Catholic education, nor to favour one sect unduly over another; therefore, a purely secular education ought to be all it should aim to impart, leaving the duty of religious teaching to the agencies whose special duty it is—namely, the churches. If in any of the subjects now taught in the schools there is matter offensive to the consciences of parents, let such offensive matter be expunged from the time-table of the schools. But surely in the simple teaching of reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, the outlines of history, and a modicum of elementary science, there can be found a means to give the children an education sufficient for the purposes of the Act without stirring up all the bit terness of a conflict between the preju dices of religious sectarianism .

Postal. —A supplementary mail for the United Kingdom, via Suez, will be des patched per express train to-morrow (Thursday), to connect with the s.s. Arawata at Port Chalmers. Steeplechase Committee. —At the last meeting of the Steeplechase Com mittee the officers were elected, and all the business of the meeting so arranged that immediately after the next assembling of the Committee a programme will be placed before public.

Wesleyan. —The Rev. W. B. Marten left Ashburton last evening for his new sphere of labor in the Manawatu district. His successor, the Rev. W. Keall, is, we understand, most energetic and active in church work. Mr. Keall, who is at present laboring in Port Chalmers, is expected to arrive here early next month ; meanwhile the Cameron Street pulpit will be filled by supplies from other circuits and the local preachers of Ashburton.

Mu. Holder’s tender for the erection of Mr. Elston’s cottage has been accepted. Y.M.C.A.—We have been requested to remind those interested that the usual weekly meeting of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be held in the Rooms, Montgomery’s Buildings, at eight ’clock this evening. Seaeield School. —The furniture for the Seafield school arrived in Ashburton yesterday, and was carted down to the schoolroom this afternoon. No time will now be lost in putting the school in work ing order. High School Reserves. —In the “ Ga zette” of March 6th, the list of reserves selected and set apart under the three High School Acts for : Christchurch, Timaru, and Ashburton, is published. In the third schedule of the Proclamation are given the Ashburton High School reserves,' as follows : No. 929, 400 acres, North Hinds, Ashburton ; No. 1111, 220 acres, Lower Ashburton; No. 1120, 136 acres; No. 1121, 66 acres ; No. 1123, 12S acres ; No. 1542, 15 acres, Ashburton ; and No. 1549, 315 acres, Maronan, Ashburton— total, 11,280 acres.

Second Master for Ashburton School. —The friends of Mr. Edward J. Mayo will be glad to learn that he has been unani mously elected by the School Committee to the position of second master of the Ashburton School. We congratulate the Committee on their selection, of a young teacher of great promise and ability, and one who brings with him recommendations of the highest order ; besides, Mr. Mayo is a “town’s boy,” having served a pupil teaching period of three years in the Ash burton School under Mr. Ward previous to commencing his studies at the Normal School in Christchurch, where he ac quitted himself with much credit. Proposed Caledonian Society.— Steps are being taken for the formation in Ashburton of a Caledonian Society, and we understand a meeting will be held at an early date to arrange preliminaries.

Borough Assessment Court.—A sit ting of this Court took place in the Council Chambers to-day, before G. L. Lee, Judge. His Worship the Mayor attended on behalf of the Council, and objected to the present valuation roll on the ground that many properties were estimated at an extremely low rate, and that many others were entirely omitted. Mr. Mutch appeared to defend his valua tion, attended by his counsel, Mr. Ireland. The judge upheld the objection made by the Borough Council, and Mr. Mutch was ordered to prepare a new roll, to be ready by the 31st inst. R. M. Court. To-day, before His Worship the Mayor and C. P. Cox, Esq., J.P., George Parker was charged with lunacy. On his promising to go to the Old Men’s Home, the case against him was dismissed.

Mining Accident.— At the inquest on the body of David Ellis, a miner who on Saturday was taken up dead from the shaft of a mining claim at the Kumara, a ver diet of accidental death was returned. When found in the claim the man was in sensible from foul air, and on being lifted to the surface he fell out of the rope. When again got up lie was dead. He was a Good Templar, and was buried with full regalia honors of the order. “ Recoverable” Beer. —The “ Poverty Bay Standard” records a reading by a local resident magistrate, relative to the retail of beer and spirits. The K,. M. says : —Beer supplied by licensed, persons may be recovered if booked, providing the person receiving it be not intoxicated. Payment for spirits supplied retail cannot be obtained by process of law.

ASHBURTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

The usual monthly meeting of the School Committee was held last night, Present : Dr. Stewart (Chairman), Messrs... Williamson, Parker, Gollins, Calvert, Bradley, and St. Hill. CORRESPONDENCE. The Secretary read a letter that had . been, sent by himself, to the Rev. W. E. Paige ad vising Mr. Paige of the resolution come to at last meeting of the committee regarding the use of the school for Sunday-school purposes, end stating that the committee would close the school on Sundays were further complaints made by the teachers regarding the conduct of Sunday scholars. The Secretary said he had received no reply to this letter. He had re ceived another complaint from the schoolmaster about a lock that had been broken on Sunday. schoolmaster’s house. Regarding the site asked for by the com mittee for a schoolmaster’s house, the Secretary to the Education Board wrote advising the Committee to be content with half an acre instead of a whole acre, as the Commissioner of Crown Lands had expressed his determina tion to advise the Government not to grant an acre. In the circumstances the Chairman had directed the Clerk to apply for half an acre. THE SCHOOL ARRANGEMENTS AND STAFF. The Secretary to the Board wrote stating that the Board had only awaited the Inspector’s report to rectify the deficiencies of the school arising from the rapid growth of population which naturally increased the attendance. Also, authorising the committee to advertise for a .second master, and to apprise the as sistant master that it was necessary to send in his resignation to the Board as well as to the committee. The assistant master, Mr. Mac kenzie, wrote resigning his situation from the 20th March. From the schoolmistress, asking the com mittee’s support, in an application for an in crease in her salary. She was now receiving for teaching a daily average of 160 scholars, no more remuneration than when she was teaching an average of 70. It was resolved to support Miss Stewart’s application ; and Mr. Ward and the Chairman as well as other members spoke in very high terms of her abilities and success as a teacher.

The report of Mr. Saunders to the Education Board on the state of the fences, grounds, and outside buildings, and sanitary arrangements of the school, was read. Messrs. Parker and Williamson were ap pointed the Visiting Committee for the month, and to see to the improvements referred to in Mr. Saunder’s report. CARETAKER. The caretaker of the school resigned her office, and it was resolved to write to the Board, asking for liberty to advertise for a caretaker, to be paid from the Maintenance Fund instead of from Incidental Expenses Fund. master’s REPORT. The master reported the total average attendance for the past week—boys, 177.4 5 girls, 171-6 ; total, 349. Number present that day—Boys, 219 ; girls, 213 ; total, 432. His report also complained of the Sunday-school children having broken the key of one of the doors. It was resolved to give the Sunday School notice to quit in a month. THE SECOND MASTERSHIP. Four applications were made for this position namely—Messrs E. J. Mayo, D. M. Yeats, G. Andrews, and Davidson. Mr. Mayo was unanimously elected, subject to his securing the necessary certificates, of which there ap peared to be a certainty. VISITING COMMITTEE’S REPORT. The Visiting Committee reported, among other things, that the trees in the school grounds had been much injured, and it was re solved to ask the master to take steps to have the children excluded from the grounds after school horns.

Several accounts were passed for payment, and the Committee adjourned.

No Parson. — Last week tlie Wanganui Herald mentioned that a congregation had waited for upwards of an hour for a clergyman, and then had to separate with out one arriving. On Sunday last the same thing occured in the same place, much to the disappointment of those assembled. The police, however with commendable forethought had affixed to door an interesting document about the jury list the persual of which to some extent relived the tedium of waiting. It was subsequently explained that the non attendance of the clergyman was owing to illness.

At O AMARU £3O was realised for the Kaitangata Relief Fund, by an entertain ment. ' ; ■'

“ Let Brotherly Love Continue.”— The Rev. Charles Strong, minister of the Collins-street Presbyterian Church, has, says the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, expressed his desire that Episcopalians and Presby terians should exchange pulpits, but the bishop considers it impossible. To a bystander, this declaration of incompati bility among those who profess a common creed is incomprehensible. It is a shock ing thing that the smaller the differences the stronger the bitternesses ; but, as it always has been, so I suppose it always will be, and thus the Bishop will continue to stand upon his superiority by right of apostolical succession. There are those who dream of a Protestant Union, in which all sects will be constrained to sink their differences and organise themselves into one compact body. But it only a dream, and the Cotholics know this well enough. They are one body ; Protestants are many disunited bodies. The Rev. Mr Strong, therefore, is in advance of his time, and they will not get up to him.

The Majesty op the Law. —lt is the universal custom for baristers and all in court to rise and bow on the entrance of the Magistrate or Judge. The other day at Wanganui—at least so we learn from the Herald—when an important case had gathered together most of the gentlemen of the long robe, they as usual rose immediately on the opening of the magistrate’s door, but were surprised to find themselves bowing politely to a small boy bringing in law books for the magistrate’s convenience. As the magis trate slipped in at the open door directly afterwards, he .missed his morning salutation.

Strangers coming to reside in Ashburton ire often at a loss to know which is the best Establishment to visit for the purchase of Drapery, Clothing, and House-furnishing Iron nongery, and General Stores. Ore. & Co. after special advantages to the public that can be met with nowhere else in Ashburton. They keep at all limes the largest and best-assorted Stock of every class of Goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers at home, which beine bought entirely upon cash terms, they are enabled to ofier goods of sill'll sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every article in stock is marked at the lowest price, from which no abatement is made so that the most inexperienced buy their goods at the same piices as the best judges.—Advt

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM EUROPE.

[By Submarine Cable.] London, March 7. Mr. Berry has written a letter to the Banks sbiting that the balance of the loan will not be offered for IS months. Negotiations for the purchase of the Australian cable for use in. connecting Aden and Natal have been broken off temporarily, but a favorable issue is not expected March 10 The Board of Trade returns of exports for last month are again very unfavorable. The Polytechnic has been totally burned. In consequence of the difficulty of an economic settlement, the Cuban Ministry have resigned, and a new one has been formed by Campos. Wheat is Ad. higher, and tallow a Ad, lower. A treaty has been concluded between Germany and Soama, the text of which has been kept secret. The land settlement has been postponed. The position is un changed by the treaty. A civil war is imminent. ’ Rome, March 8. Sentence of death has been passed on the perpetrator of the attempted assassi nation of the King of Italy on Nov. 17 last. •. Paris, March 7. The report of the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies ' demands the im peachment of the Broglie-Duchesne Cabinet. Government refuse to accept the conclusions of the Chamber’s Com mittee.

AUSTRALIAN.

THE STEAMBOAT COLLISION.

Melbourne, March 11. An extensive jewel robbery occurred at the Railway Station. Sydney, March 10.

Last 'night, at 8 o’clock, off Rodhead, the steamer Barrabool, from Newcastle to Sydney, collided with the steamer Bonnie Dundee, which crossed the bows of the Barrabool diagonally. The Barrabool’s boats were lowered promptly, but the Bonnie Dundee sank in three minutes, and six lives were lost. The Dundee was fully insured. The ladies’ stewardess and cabin boy were lost in the collision. Barrabool was uninjured. The Governor embarks in the Emerald on March 19.

Brisbane, March 11. A rich reef has been discovered 30 miles from Ravenswood.

TO-DAY’S CABLEGRAMS.

London, March 8.

The .money market is easier, and the bank minimum is unchanged. Discount rates in the open market are falling. Business on the Stock Exchange is dull. The market for colonial Government debentures is steady.

The tone of the wool market is relieved. Prices have receded, and the fall is most strongly marked in cross-breds. Inferior greasy, and medium to good are steady ; superior fleece in grease, 15 to 20 per cent, below last February rates. The corn market is steady, with upward tendency. New Zealand wheat is selling —ex store, per 4951b5., according to quality—at 445. to 48s. “ The Spectator ” in moderate articles condemns the Berry proposals, and sug gests the alternative of securing finality without abolishing the Council.

TO-DAY’S TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Wednesday.

The diver and assistant who left here on behalf of the Auckland Company to recover the wool, etc., from the wre’ck of the Ocean Mail at the Chathams have re turned with the Island City bootless.

The brigantine Island City has brought up from the Chatham Islands a sample of the first wheat ever grown on them. It will run 40 bushels to the acre. The Harbor Board have decided to borrow £SOOO on debenture for rebuilding and forming a street on the reclamation. The Choral Society’s concert for the Kaitangata relief fund yielded some £SO. A moonlight excursion for the same object was patronised by 600. The Sunday Schools Union meeting realised £IOO. Wellington, Wednesday.

The body of a boy about 8 years old, found floating in the harbor to-day, was indentified as that of Fred. Johns, who has been missing since the 4th inst. Tauranga, Wednesday Captain Worsp anticipates raising the Taupo this afternoon. Last night, as Captain Sellars Cromarty and friends were sitting at the Com mercial Hotel, the Harbormaster (Marks) entered, and commenced using filthy and opprobrious language towards them. No attention was paid for some time, but at last one of the party, roused beyond endur ance, stood up, and with small ceremony punched his head and turned him out. Hokitika, Wednesday.

A youth named Clarkson, 19 years old, was drowned this morning while bathing at the sea-beach. The Stella has left with the Commis sioners, interpreters, and witnesses, for Jackson’s Bay. Tainui, a Maori here, goes to Kaiapoi to contest the Middle Island Native seat, rendered vacant by Taiaroa’s elevation to the Council.

Dunedin, Wednesday. An old brewery in the north end of the city, formerly belonging to Godby and Co., but now owned by the Otago Perma nent Building Society, was destroyed by fire between 3 and 4 this morning. The fire brigades turned out promptly, but could do nothing. The building which was of wood and .shingle, and the plant, including 350 barrels, were consumed. The New Zealand Insurance offices have lost £95,000 by fires since the commence ment of the year, and country risks are being declined by some of the leading offices in Dunedin.

A number of cabmen have been prose cuted for leaving the stand on the race days, and plying for hire in the streets. Small fines were inflicted.

Pater Teeth. —Paper teeth are a new invention in Germany, and a number of specimens were displayed at the last paper exhibition in Berlin. They are warranted fully as durable as any other teeth.

A SUPREME COURT DECISION.

Washington, January 6th.— A decision was rendered this afternoon by the United States Supreme Court in the case of George Reynolds against the United States, brought here by appeal from the Supreme Court of Utah.. The case involves the whole question of polygamy in Territories, and the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress for its suppression, Reynolds was indicted by a Grand Jury for contracting a bigamous marriage. He was tried in the Third Judicial Court of Utah and found guilty. He appealed to the Supreme Court of the Territory, and finally to this Court, which now affirms the judgment of the lower tribunes and decides that the Congress had power to pass laws prohibiting polygamous marriages in Utah and that such laws are constitu tional. With reference to the decision of the above case, it is interesting to note that the Supreme Court were unaninous on the main question involved, namely, as to the constitutionality of the laws of Congress prohibiting so-called plural marriages, &c. The Chief Justice, speaking for the entire Court, declared that this law was not in conflict with the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom,. and showed that the right of Congress to legislate for the pro tection of the fundamental principles of society cannot be abridged by the Mormon claim of certain other religious beliefs that human sacrifices are necessary, or that widows must be burned with the bodies of their dead husbands. There was some slight • difference of opinion as to the admissibility of the testimony of one wit ness given on the former trial in Utah, but the two or three Justices who doubted its admissibility concurred with their associates in all other points of the Case ; and there is absolutely nothing left in the whole matter for judicial determination or controversy..

Salt Lake, January 7th.—The Mormon Church organ makes the following comments in an editorial this evening on the anti-polygamy decision rendered yesterday by the United States Supreme Court : —“ The question that:.’: naturally arises in the public mind is, what are the Mormons going to do about it ? So far as we understand their views and feelings, we should say that they will leave the matter in the hands of the Almighty. The - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is composed of people' who are chiefly citizens of the United States. Many of them came from foreign lands. When they took the 1 oath of allegiance to the Constitution and Government of the United States, they made.no promise of submission to any interference with their religious liberty. Neither did they agree that Congress or any Court should decide what might or might not be' considered a part of their religious faith. Celestial marriage, • including the doctrine of plurality of wives, was given to them directly from God. It does not matter who may dispute this as a fact; they have evidence of it which to them is complete, leaving no room for doubt. Congress, many years after this doctrine became an integral part of their religious creed, the practice of which was commanded by the Almighty, passed a statute declaring that God had authorized a crime against the law. The Supreme Court now affirms that law to be valid. Does this affect in any way the truth that God has revealed and commanded it? Not in the ...remotest degree. The principles which underlie plural marriage are j ust as true to-day as they were at any previous time, and no human law or Court decision can possibly alter or abrogate them. The issue is between the Supreme Being and those who venture ignorantly or otherwise to oppose Hia purposes and designs.”

A Hotel at Jerusalem. —Ap American journal mention a remarkable instance of the proverbial Yankee shrewdness. Some years ago a prosperous lowa farmer con ceived the idea that the Jews were about to be restored to their own land*,; and that it was his mission to be an'instrument ‘in restoring Jerusalem to its _ ancient splendour. His relatives did not see the matter- in quite the same light; but the idea had so worked itself into the; brain of the enthusiast' that he sold off his possessions and divided the proceeds with his family. Taking a small share himself, and sailed for Judea, and reached the Holy City im safety. Here a European visionary would inevitably have come to grief, and formed a unit in the thousands of beggars of all nations who swarm in Syria. Not so the Yankee farmer. He secured a plot of ground near the city, and set up ga hotel on a modest scale for the children of Israel who, according to his idea, Were about to return to their ancient patrimony.. The Jews have not yet returned, but the hotel-keeper has prospered, and his family have' so far recognised “ the method of his madness” as to sell off the remainder of their property, and join him at this hotel near Jerusalem. The idea of the returning Israelites needing a hotel was eminently American. ■

A Heathen Protests. A South African chief, named Khami, in a vigour ous protest against the introduction ’of intoxicants among his people by Euro peans, says, “ You act in direct opposition to my wishes. I try to. teach my people better things, and to raise them, out of the mire but how can I possibly be success ful when they see you white men, who have had God’s Word for so many years, doing those things which are wrong ?” ;

Scarcity op Labor. —The “ Manawatu Herald” says “ On. all sides we hear of the scarcity of, labor in this district, both skilled and otherwise. Contractors cannot get workmen, tenders for road work have to be extended on account of tenderers being unable to obtain men to fulfil their contracts, and agricultural laborers and farm servants are. simply unobtainable at any price.” ■ "• ■y-

Theatrical.— A San Francisco: corres pondent of the “ Melbourne Argus” says : —Mrs. Clarence Living (nde Eleanor Carey) proposes a professional,,trip,to the colonies shortly. It is on the cards that a first-class company of American actors, say twelve in all, may 'soon visit : the colonies. It will not be composed of the waifs and strays of the profession, .but of people of the highest recognised ability on this side the water, able to command “in stock” lOOdols. arid upwards per week. They go willing to challenge colonial criti cism as “ a representative American dra matic company.”

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