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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 351, 26 November 1875, Page 3

EEPRESENTATIVE MEN. The ' Wellington Tribune ' thinks that the men whom wo most need in parliament are not those who can most easily get there. They decline to fight an election battle with the nasty weapons which less scrupulous candidates rather delight in using, and which as we have seen exercise an influence with the crowd for the passing moment. Sensitive men, indeed, shrink altogether from such contest. They ought not to do so, and we have no wish to justify them, but while elcctora tolerate much that now .goes on, they must make up their minds to lose the services of men who could stand them in good stead." On the other hand those whom the country could well dispense with in Buch a position —the taproom politician, the noisy demagogue,* the log-roller—flock to it readily, and in some instances step easily enough over the threshold. The electors ere long find out.their mistake, but it is too late ; and their memories are so defective that one need not wonder if they play the same trick of self-deception again, when an opportunity offers. They cry out agaiust their representatives; let them cry out against themselves. The blame is their own—they are represented just as they choose to be.

In the financial year ending the 31st of March, 1874, the expenditure in England from the Parliamentary grant for elementary education amounted to £1 ,268,773, which was applied as f0110w5:—£784,228 was granted to schools connected .with the Church of England; £157,056 to schools connected with the British and Foreign School Society; £77,222 to Wesleyan schools; £64,713 to Catholic schools; £52,319 to Board schools ; £ 120 to Parochial Union schools; £2OB to School Boards under the Act of 1870; and £18,579. for organisation of districts under that Act. The remaining £114,328 is the cost ol the administration and inspection.