TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 212, 7 September 1871, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[Per Grevhxe's Company, Reuter's Agents.] PAR LI A MEN TART. The debate on the Education Bill was continued last night. Mr. Murray approved of the Nelson system, but objected to erecting any machinery haviDg provincialism as a foundation. Mr. Reid condemned the aided school clauses and all religious teaching in schools; Mr. Collins approved of the aided school clauses and would extend the system to Sunday Schools. The General Government, he thought, should raise all funds for educational purposes. Mr. Stafford looked upon the Bill as the framework of a useful measure. The House should determine the> mode of taxation. The fairest plan "would be for the General Government to contribute, and only elementary schools be maintained by taxation. The compulsory clauses should be confined to large towns. He warmly approved of the aided schools clauses, as without them," compulsory attendance would be intolerable tyranny. He denied that auy teaching beyond writiug, the alphabet, and arithmetic could be purely secular, as every history and book showed religious bias; He disapproved of reading the Bible in schools as being likely to disgust children with religion. No truly national system could afford to ignore the convictions of large sections of the community. He warmly eulogised the Nelson, system, and spoke in high terms of the Catholic aided schools where three fourths of the boys who attended were Protestants. He attributed to Dr, Greenwood great credit for having initiated the Nelson system. Mr. Wakefield approved of the aided schools clauses, and suggested an educational franchise, Mr. Creighton moved the adjournment of debate.