CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editok of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sik — Messrs Rout and Earley find some fault with a note, for wMch we are jointly responsible, and in which it is stated that those gentlemen's - sons were classed as Hampden-street pupils "by , the particular request of Mr Bunley, and, as the Examiners were informed, by the express desire of their parents." Mr Sunley repeatedly assured us, not only that it was the wish of these gentlemen that their Bons should enter as Hampden-street pupils, but also that Mr Rout and Mr Harley had refused to allow their sons to enter on any other terms It was this consideration which induced us to accede to a request so unprecedented. We are, &c, W. C. Hodgson, \ Examiners Frank Chuechill Simmons, J Nelson, December 21, 1873. To the Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail. Sik — Permit me to put to the hoys at the Government Schools the following questions, which will come, I suppose, under the head of "Rule of Three Inverse." If a "fortnight's rational instruction in the classic seminary " of Hampden-street, will give a boy 112 marks, how loDg a course, of the same treatment must have been required to reduce three pupils of that school to 32 marks each, and how long would it take before, like the young gentlemen in Dr Blimber's academy, they ceased to blossom at all. Again, If a year and a half's " rational instruction " at Hampden-street result arithmetically in zero, how much " bad tutorship or gross neglect " will bring, say, 120 marks for the same subject. I am, &c, Proportion.