DISCIPLINE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 205, 31 August 1870, Page 2

DISCIPLINE.

To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail Sir, — In the columns of both your contemporaries I have observed a letter bearing the signature of "F. Tucker," the writer, I presume from the tenor of the letter, being the Miss Tucker referred to in the report of the Inspector of Schools as the Mistress of Hampdenstreet school. Ido not intend to offer any remarks upon the question whether the writer has or has not any grounds for feeliug aggrieved at the Inspector's report, but it. certainly is contrary to all my notions of discipline that a junior should rush into print iu so rash a manner, and characterise the remarks made by his or her commanding officer as "unjust and uncalled for." How can you expect discipline to be maintained iu the rauks, if its absence is so strikingly conspicuous among the officers ? I aro, &c, Miles.

The missionary schooner Southern Cross reports that on her last trip to the Solomou and Norfolk Islands, accounts were received at several islands that a slaver had been there and taken several men away, and a fore-and-affc schooner, with a boat towing astern, was seen dodging along the shore. The native clergyman at Mota said that four slavers had been there during the year. In consequence of these visits the natives of these islands are said to be in an intense state of excitement. A New York paper says that a labourer in an ice-house, down East, was killed by a large lump of ice falling on his head. Verdict of the jury, "Died of hard drink."