MELBOURNE.
September 16. — Mr. Stephens has introduced the Education Bill, the pricipal of which is to make secular education csmpulsory and free. Common education is to be imparted free» but all higher branches to be paid for. It is to be rendered compulsory upon every child to attend some school for at least ten days in each month, under a penalty for non-compliance of five shillings for the first, and £1 for every subsequent breach of the Act. The second reading is set down for the 24th instant, when there will probably be some opposition. The Omeo has left for Port Darwin with 250 passengers, and the Blackbird for I barter's Towers with a like number. Great numbers are preparing to follow, but there is A scarcity of provisions in the North, and great privations may be looked for. Flour, £15 to £15 10s; Wheat, 6s to 6s 9d; Oats, New Zealand good milling, 3s 6d; feeding, 3s 3d to 3s 4d; Sugars firm at last quotations.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 September 1872, Page 2
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