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Evening Star, Issue 3220, 16 June 1873, Page 3

Late Advertisements. LODGINGS, Parlor and Bedroom, to Let, north side of City; unit a gentleman For address, apply Watson’s Store, corner of Cumberland and Albany streets. HARBOUR STEAM COMPANY AGENtS Beautiful star, s.s., for lyttelTON via TIMARU, Tomorrow (Tuesday), 17th June. Cargo till 9.30 a.m« Passengers by 5 p.m. train. PRETTY JANE, s.s., for PORT MOLYNEOX (taking cargo for transhipment per Tuapeka to KAITANGATA, BALCLDTHA, and all up-river landings) lomorrow (Tuesday), 17th June. SAMSON, p.s., for OAMAEU, on Thursday, 19th June. Cargo till noon. Passengers at 5 p.m. Fares: Saloon, 20s; Steerage, 15s (including rail fare and landcharge). ■j^JAORT L B 1 s., for LYTTELTON, via^TIMARU and AKAROA, on Friday, 2pth June. Cargo till 10 a.m. Passengers by 5 p.m. train.

Offices; Harbour Chambers. MEETINGS. NOTICE. A PUBLIC MEETING will be held on Tuesday Evening, at 8 p.m., in Fairfield Schoolhouee, to discuss the Truck System. Miners and storekeepers respectfully requested to attend. AND. POLLOCK. June 16, 1873. CALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF OTAGO. A SPECIAL Meeting of Directors will be held at Wain’s Hotel, This Evening, at eight o’clock. WILL S. DOUGLAS, Secretary. CONCERT FOR PRAYER. THE Monthly Meeting for United Prayer will (D.V.) be held in the Congregational Church, Moray place, This Evening (Monday), at half-past seven o’clock. Christians of all denominations are invited. JAMES COPLAND, Sec. PUBLIC NOTICES. FBEISSEL, by Appointment, Hair- • dresser and Perfumer to H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., and His Excellency Sir G. Bowen, K.C.8., PRINCES STREET. For the growth of hair, try Beissel’s Cantharadite Fluid YULCAN FOUNDRY, GREAT KING STREET, Dunedin. KINCAID, M‘QUEEN, & CO., Boilermakers, Engineers, Millwrights, Founders, Blacksmiths, Ac. All kinds of castings in brass and iron done ; steam engines and boilers made and repaired; overshot, breast, and turbine water-wheels ; quartz crushing machinery ; pumping and windlass gear; cast iron sluice and ripple plates ; sheet iron hopper and sluice plates, punched to any size of hole ; gold dredging spoons, Ac. ; flour mill machinery made and repaired ; all kinds of reaping, threshing, horse-power machines, Ac., repaired; No. 3 flax-dressing machines, capable of dressing 40 to 45 cwt. flax per day.

DRAPERY. SPECIAL BARGAINS. DOZEN Ladies’ Cambric HandI t)lj kerchiefs No. 1 2s. The 4-dozen No. 2 3s. The 4-dozen No. 3 4s. The 4-dozen QQQ YARDS Super Winceys, 74d YARDS Diagonal Shot Poplin, 1,700 at Is 6d 000 YARDS Black Alpaca, at 9d 100 knickerbocker Suits ' iis BALES Flannels \ 8 do Blankets I Splendid>lu« ROWN, EWING, & CO.

ELECTION NOTICES. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CAVER. SHAM DISTRICT. Dunedin, Jane 6, 1873. Gentlemen, —i find some of my friends have misunderstood my opinions regarding the functions of the Provincial Council and the Education Question; I therefore deem it my duty to state definitely my views upon those matters. Functions of the Provincial Council.—l am reported to have said that the sole business of the Provincial Council should be the judicious expenditure of the public funds. What I did say was, the appropriation of the revenue was one of its most important duties, There are of coarse other matters of great' importance which the Council has power to legislate upon, and which are not beyond the capacity of an intelligent business man. Education.—lt is upon this subject more particularly that my ideas have been misconstrued. A report has got abroad that I favor the denominational system—a system to which, I beg most distinctly to state, I am thoroughly opposed. Under the denominational system the religious doctrines of the majority are taught in the schools, the effect of which is that in a country district where one school only is required, the children of various denominations representing the minority, must go without instruction unless their parents arc content they should receive it strongly flavored with doctrines to which they are opposed. In stating my views upon this question, I was under the impression that the course of instruction pursued in our common Schools, seriously reflected upon, if it did not the religion of the Roman Catholics ; and 1 stated that if it could be shown to me that such was the case, that the school accommodation in the City of Dunedin was insufficient, and that the religious denomination 1 referred to had the required number of children to constitute a main school, under such circumstances, I should meet the difficulty by granting them the necessary school accommodation, and the customary assistance to the teachers, on condition that the school should be under the supervision of the Government Inspector, and that the requirements of the Ordinance were complied with. Such a case, however, is not likely to a ise, as I find that the course of instruction which obtains at present in our common schools- is such that no good grounds can be urged hy all denominations should net avail themselves of the present system ; and I shall therefore strongly oppose any alteration in it. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, RICHARD H. LEARY,