The Japanese Government has officially announced that next year English is to be taught m all the aohools. This will be of immense importance to the missionaries, whose work will be greatly helped and forwarded by this innovation. According to the "Bulletin Medioale.!' 60,000 children are born every year m Paris, ol which number 17,000 are placed out to nurse m the country, 20,000 are brought up by wet nurses m the city, and 3000 are reared by hand. Of the other moiety it is believed that the greater portion perish. A lady m England, desiring to know the address of her husband m New Zealand, hit upon the excellent idea of sending bis portrait to all the chief-postmasters m the colony. The result was eucoeeeful, and correspondence haa been happily resumed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1641, 20 August 1887, Page 3
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132Untitled Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1641, 20 August 1887, Page 3
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