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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 31 October 1861, Page 6 (Supplement)

Cab Stand.— Auckland is going a head and no mistake. We have long had drays, omnibusses, and other locomotive machines in plenty; and now, through the enterprise of Mr. Peter Grace, “Cab yer homier,” will forthwith be had on hire, the stand decided on being near St. Paul's Church at the head of Shorthand-street. itiE h. \g i.i mi IjANGfACrE. —As of all existing languages and literatures the English is most replete with benefit to the human race so it is overspreading the earth with a rapidity far exceeding any other. With a partial exception in Canada, English is (he language of (he continent of America north of Mexico ; and at the existing rate of increase there will be a hundred millions of people speaking English in the United States alone at the end of this century. In the West India is anc’s we have given our language to a population collected from various parts of Africa; and by this circumstance alone they have been brought many centuries nearer to civilisation than their country men in Africa who may for ages grope about in the dark, destitute of any means of acquiring true religion and science. Tiieir dialect is an uncouth perversion of English, suited to the present crude state of their ideas; but their literature will be the literature of England, and their language wili gradually be conformed to the same standai'd. More recently the English language has taken root in the continent of Africa itself - and a nation is' being formed by means of it in the extensive territory belonging to (he Capo, out of a curious mixture of different races. But the scone of its greatest triumphs will be in Asia. To the South a new continent is.being peopled with the English race; to the North, an ancient people, who have always taken the lead in the progress of religion and science in the cast, have adopted the English language as their language education; by- moans of which they arc becoming animated by a now spirit, and arc entering at once upon the improved knowledge of Europe, the fruit of the labour and invention of successive ages. The English language not many generations hence be will spoken by millions in all the four quarters of the globe; and our learning, morals, our principles ot constitutional liberty, and our religion, embodied in the established literature and diffused through the genius of the vernacular languages, will spread far and wide among the nations. —Trevelyan on the. Education of the People of India. Messrs. Rowley & Bristow, of Laurence, Bountncy lane have been appointed marine insurance agents to the New Zealand Insurance Company of Auckland.