Correspondence.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 240, 12 October 1867, Page 3

Correspondence.

NELSON PUBLIC SCHOOL. To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Ma«Sli* — Allow me, through the medium of your journal, to ask why the children at the Government School should be kept laway half the time ? If we pay the Education Rate, why should we not get the liill benefit of it ? Yours, &c, One of the Parents. Nelson, October 9.

Th 9 Provincial Government receipts of the Province of Marlborough for the year ended June, 1867, amounted to 19,639/ 78 3d, and the disbursements for the same period to 18,766/ 6a 4d. So far as New South Wales is concerned the final step is nearly completed for the validation of the agreement come to at the late Intercolonial Postal Conference. The bill for that purpose has passed through committee in the Assembly, and would probably become law a few days after the Mutaura left. A girl at Bath has died from the effect of puncturing a boil on her under lip with a common brass pin. A young man at Hereford, on the morning of his expected marriage, went to the garden of Dr Thomanon, of that town, aud asked the gardener for a rose to give to his bride. On receiving one he fell on the gardener's shoulders and died without a word. The Swedenborgians are making a great many proselytes in London, and are erecting a place of worship at Camber well; also one at Nottingham.