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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 33, 6 September 1887, Page 2

;;i 'riie'sfcond payment fbr the Caulfiel d j Cup,*'^ 'selVs.' was' made on the August, and the New Zealander s: Spade. Guinea; Pasha, Tranter; Mitrailleuse, snd! aod Kiagr* are still left ia: The next and last pay meat it not due till October llth. jggrhe delegates of the Allied Industries,, iggk Messrs Bruce and Ronald, acting on 'Mpilf of Australia, are arrangmg an J_X-bounty gathering for October 3rd. , It is stated that 290,000 workmen are : affected by tii*bouhffc|. \ / -\iAf *Cfemnlentwfron the storm raiied by Bishop Nevill's strictures on the conduct of our school children, the Bruce Herald says:-r" W e are disposed Jo. think that themf6*nffi9&§otJ§e* fSftftnd are no .worse than they are in other places ; and if they are. it is uuestipip|ble if the mere reading of the bible' in the public schools and the sayinlg of "a p'a^er WoaltLmake them , any jbettej. Bible-reading and prayer have »e_ipsrtof: the pmgrmame in the Miltoa school for years past^ but it : is not altogether a rare thing to hear Jrduag fellows blurting out abominable j snguageas they stand about the corners bf ihe stieets. And so long as the'r father* and elders generally interlard their conversation with - questionable expressions as it is to be regretted many of them do, it can;hardly be expected that the boys, or even the girls/ will speak in language of the niost chaste and unobjectionable j descnptipn. Perhaps if those eighttenths who it is triumphantly asserted j attached their names to the petition for Bible*readihg in schools were themselves to read the Bible a bit, and order their conversation^aucordiiiK to ifc* precepts, the evils, of Mjieh Bishop Nevill complains would be reduoed to a minimum."