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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 302, 27 December 1869, Page 2

, ; ,f ., The .BißLE.~Miv.Reed, M .P.. Sj >eak iug -^fitlGoggeshall^ Essex, on education, said lievcas not a believer in secular education. '"Tffere.,'- was no such thing. Education taught the heart, and the heart aud conscience were ' not taught by reading and writing. ,- Education, to be worthy of the name, must be based on religious truth contained! iv, '.God's holy-word, which musP-be' kept at all cost iv our daily -schools. It was said that- the working (;classes;wanteri _. purely, secular; education. ; .They wanted: the bested ucation they could 'have,, not gratuitously; : l)ut : 'at' the very 'Vlpwest cost, an d b f th e very best , q ualit y , t "provided rio -one. interfered with the legiti--WaTe right of apparent to choose his child's arid teacher /or trifled with a parent's religious,feeiiiigs; but never let the country be,,d isgrji.ee d. by banishing the Bible as the Bible has been banished, from hundreds of of-s,chpols in the United States, where it was an unknown book. .Without the Bible was there any. appeal to, what was right and wrong? A teacher • might say what was right, but without the Bible he was ■ \ not able, to prove it.' He did not want de,'nciffiihatiohal teaching. He hated sectarian but for the credit of the country "■w"e~rnust"not give up the Bible, which had been the source of power and was the qua- ] ran tee for future security. l^l'Ei ,^'Le;AN (says the Southern Cross) ; met the Maorisxat Sbortland on the 14th .unstact.: ."Abeut 150 were. present, including several from Ohinemuri. He was greeted 1 with" -the usual -." Haere mai," and was received by ihe principal men with a ' , : £eof dial welcomed -Several of "the! priricipal . chiefs spoke, and rMr;- 1 M'Lean replied, , urging them to live in harmony with the Europeans, .and assist in maintaining the peace ., of; the district. . Addressing Te Mpahanui,. he said — "I have heard that i Te Hira is opposed to the openiug of the goldfields of this district, but it is my . , opinion that it. is not so much Te Hira as '. others. Te Moananui, if you would only . exertsyourseify it would .be an easy task: to remove -this opposition."- The chief; V .answered? that die - was -not to blame. It j'.'^as^that'crbudM^p'binting'" ;to .Te : Aroha). . .ItJiWas. jthat. c : * uneasiness: ! : \('Aliu'ding-td'-tKß'''dispote--,w-ith He cohiplainedW ininibg on \ : -v i bea,ch, and; su pported^by- ;pthers, asked J '.'• '';'j-to|havet'-tne ; Te^sU'ictiphs;^ken^p^;ffie sale : ; pf,&rms.iand ■ iiarnmuuitipu,' -.boasting' that } i;.C'Mr^,;M''Leau .repli^u~^;T^e.'l-Goyernment \ ; '^caau ! pt:all.ow'"a r tiy^ V,t disturb the^-peace' of'VHauraki; .of which p,;.ypu..;ba^^ 'j^ii^ fine law | :-; arm's..;. :>^hat'' of- the | ii^pylt^jompated, , : with,, j ;i |||pea^ji||b^t£i^^ . opeace may be lasting;,- and tbat .evil-doers s,vmay f : be. searched-.outi and ..driven from : v : : among.;those who .desire peace aud pros- >