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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1469, 31 October 1872, Page 2

A hearty laugh was caused in theVictorian Assembly, by a genuine bull made by Mr Walker in. the course o£ his speech on the education, question.. Speaking of the duty of the clergy to. give religious instruction to. the children, but not in the schools, he remarked that it was quite competen. forthem to have "Sunday-school*, every-day-in the week, ii they desired it." The lion, member himself joined iu the merriment he had caused.

The following are somewhat fuller particulars of a horrible case of murder which took place in tlio vicinity of Invercargill on the 20th inst.:—The wife of Carl Vitting, a German settler, having been badly treated by her husband, who has repeatedly deserted her, took the lour youngest of her family of efahi, saying that she was going to look at* he cows, and went into the bush to Waikawa creek, and attempted to drown them all. The eldest, nine years of age, struggled out, and caw his mother holding the baby under the water. The woman hid in the bush, and the boy alarmed two splitters, who recovered the Ihree bodies. The police searched all night, and apprehended the woman. It is thought that she is out of her mind. An inquest having been held on the bodies of the children, a verdict of "wilful murder" was returned against Mrs Vitting. Forty thousand acres of land in the Waikato are reported to have been drained and cultivated by one firm a ] o ne—Messrs Douglas and Co. In Victoria, with a population of three quarters of a million, there are one hundred and twenty public journals. In New Zealand, with a population of 300,000, there are about 6%-five journals.