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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 201, 23 August 1872, Page 2

% i i i in ■ The citizens of Honolulu have advanced the Government the sum of £42,000 for five years without interest, for the purpose of building an hotel, which is absolutely required for the accommodation of passengers coming and going to and from New Zealand and Australia. Electoral Bills. — The second reading of the new Electoral Bills has been moved. They consolidate the existing electoral laws, extend the franchise to ail adult males having a salary of £100 a-year, lodgers paying £40 a-year for board and lodging, or £10' for lodging only, and all ratepayers in municipalities or road districts. They also provide for the trial of election petitions by judges of the Supreme Court. Education. — Lord Derby lately mentioned an anecdote which, prima facie, seems toshowthat education is " valueless." At a gathering in Australia, not long since, four people met, three of whom were shepherds on a sheep farm, One of these had taken a degree at Oxford, another at Cambridge, and a third at a German University. The fourth was their employer, a squatter, rich in flocks and herds, but {scarcely able to read and write, much less > to keep his own accounts. - In his speech on opening the Kakanui Athenaeum, His Honor the Superintendent of Ot&go, as reported in the Oararu Times, said: — He had recently taken upon himself to order from home £800 worth of books, and reminded them that for every pound they paid into the Treasury they ■would get £2 worth of books— standard books—at trade prices. He believed that the efforts ,of the Provincial Government in this direction, would call forth the blessings of generations yet unborn, and he .v^;glad;io\say,!that there, was scarcely ; a shepherd's hut or gold-digger's tent where books pr^ured j>y the; were ,po^;tp^e-^un4," ;>/■ •:/ \XX', :' Vy