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our own Correspondent.) A. petition has been forwarded from this quarter to Mr J. P. .\rmstrong, M.P.0., for presentation to the Hid ligation Board. The petition shows the number of children on the Creek to be forty-three, and the number of those who would attend school to be eighteen. I m\y mention that the eighteen children alluded to as those who would attend school, represent so much money guaranteed. The inhabitants are about to frike the initiative, and to establisha school of their, own. I have little faith, however, in the stability r of the venture unless it is subsidised by the Education I Board.

The liev. Emmanuel Hoyeiy M.A., performed mass at. the Pass Hotel on Saturday, the 10th inst. His reverence read a pastoral from the Bishop of the diocese, in which his lordship touches upon the education question. I must confess that I thought our school was doomed. The reverend gentleman, howeverj explained matters in a very satisfactory manner, by stating ihat the pastoral letter did not apply to side schools in outlying districts ; and. as it was utterly impossible tor every denomination to have schools of their own, &he church to which he belonged would countenance schools of a purely secular j character in such localities. Father Royer paid a high compliment, to the inhabitants of St. Bathans. He remarked that, although a small place, the last census would probably show that the population numbered something like twenty different religious denominations, and that it was highly

' creditable to them that they all lived ill Christian amity and, in fact., as brother.*./ F must admit that there are few- places in this ti-jjht little inland which bear such a cha'\i-.-ter. Two children were aUo f-hristened on Sat u rday. (>ue. the infailt daughter of Mr -Duncan. .M-- Lelia.n,' and the- other, the-child •»!' Mr Terence .Sharkey. - A dejeuner a lafonrohette was laid out aC George's Pass Hotel, when a few friends sat down- and en joyed the' things provided b\ r the worthv hostess, | Mrs George. Tne pr.> e etilmi- ; nated with a .dance in the evening, ' when the uodlather and ijodinother, Mr

.Ninian Kinross and Mrs Edwin Greor^e,

did their best to ariuse the company. The only .cdnfretewis which took;place occurred towards, the small hours, when the obdurate j>o.imother absolutely declined to assist in quencinir the thirst of guests. 1- cannot better exemplify what I mean than by quoting a few lines from the " Welcome (xuest ": Caverns and deserts of i rtU>rnal sau-1, - Without, wherewivh to slake t.!ie fci»irstat hand! No wate-.y wine,'rum, b'ei\ n<> i*m, no brandy! No! Nothing ! 'Not. a rh*op of nothing handy ! Now reigns eternal darkness on the deep, etc:, : etc., etc.