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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2784, 19 January 1872, Page 3

Correction. —In the remarks of his Worship the Mayor yesterday, iu reference to prostitutes being allowed to assemble in hotels, a slight mistake occurred. The actual words used were— “l feel it to be my duty to call the attention of the police to the fact that women of the character of the complainant aod defendant in this case should be allowed to assemble iu any hotel iu the City.” The Industrial School. —In justice to the deserving managers of the establishment, we give the impressions of a visitor from Invercargill : -During my stay in the southern metropolis, I met with nothing that pleased me more than the visit I paid to the Industrial School at Look-out Point, near Caversham. You are no doubt aware that this establishment is one of the pet projects of our Superintendent Mr Macandrew—and 1 have no hesitation in saying that there is not an institution in the province which reflects - more credit upon his foresight. At present the schoool contains about 90 children—brands plucked from the burning—whose material Welfare and moral training are as carefully attended to as ine most fastidious parents could desire. One or two deposits from the streets of Invercargill were pointed out to me, the offspring of some of our local pests —and the change that has been wrought both in their manner and appearance was of a character that could not fail to impress the most sceptical of the social importance of the institution. In fact, it was about tne only thing I saw with the badge of provincial control on it that could be said to be in a thorough state of efficiency. Too much praise cannot be accorded to the governor, Mr B. Britton, for his zeal in the management of the institution, and no sighs will better repay the inspection of a stranger than a visit to the Industrial School, A marble-cutter recently received from a German an order for a tombstone, with the following epitaph “My yife Su?VTO is dead ; if she’d had hfe Ull'hext Friday she’d been dead shust two weeks. As a tree falls 50 must she stand. All things is impossible »it God.”