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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 168, 9 July 1875, Page 4

eS «^°° r^ j 6? ?"* yjflPthe promise of the yPQpP^agrthat tehders would -be/ ■_.r ie J*_HP^% 1 completion 'of thd. water-race," for, as a /rowrer of fact, the Superintendent of Nelson has fio control over the Workthe can only mak^ personal recommei*datjopsi to; $he General Goyetcimeni. And what does, Mr M'Guire mean bY stating that the Central Board off Education fs responsible to nobody for its Actions and expenditure ? If thi process of representation can secura responsibility, surely the constitution on tha;Board does so; Each school district! elects the members, of its .local commit- ' tee^and that committee again elects a representative on the Centypl Boar,d\ If the actions of the Boiird are unfair, the local qominittees can call upon ■ their, repjiesentatiye to resign— just as the electors of the Grey Valley <;could call upon 1 Messrs Corbett and M'Giiire to give up their seats, did they 'have ground for, doing so. We .think .ihat it was a very good thing for the cause, of education thattheattempfc- to- transfer* its control to the; Executive: -was uri^ successful. ' ■ The^Melbourne Argus, in commenting upon Sir George Grey's famous letter,. Bays:-r- What is the matter, with. Sir George .Grey? His eccentricity— : to employ no harsher term:— is assuming so extraordinary a character, that his re-entry into public life promises to be productive of consequences as disastrous to his own character as they may be injurious to the province' which has lately elected him as its Superintendent. In,a letter addressed to arid published in the Wairarapa Standard, he expresses the painful apprehensions he experiences on account of the action of the Imperial Government in appointing colonial Governors for party objects or as a reward for party services. Owing to this terrible state of things, he is of opinion that the whole future of New Zealand— •>" life, property, social relations " — may be " sacrificed . ijo class feelings which should have' no existence there." But what, it may be asked, is the immediate source of danger ? Nothing more or less than the adoption by England of the system of private executions >vhich has been established in these colonies! Our readers must not expect us to supply them with any clue to the tortuous workings of ,Sir George Grey's mind, or to explain by what reversal of all the ordinary processes of logic that gentleman has succeeded ji connecting private executions in, the J|otber country with the sacrifice of life, property, au<l social relations in New Zealand. Bamaby Rudge might do it, but we relinquish the effort in despair. The N; Z Times understands that those two distinguished , provincial statesmen, Mr Dunup and Mr Hardup, have, at a meeting of their political friends, arranged a programme for next: session, and tbat resolutions to the following effect will be proposed : — l. That the power of the creditor has increased, is increasing, bal ought to be diminished. 2. That any restriction upon, or interference with, provincial indebtedness is subversive of constitutional freedom. 3. That provincial liabilities to the colony are destructive to proper finance, and that tbeir payment upsets all the calculations oi & provincial treasurer. 4. That a Bill to compel credit and to abolish recovery of debt be forthwith introduced. The announcement of these resolutions was received With applaase, and promises of support were freely given by Mr Spendthrift, from Otago, who made a long and oily spef&h, and emphatically sta(ed that a policy of that kiud was essential to the prosperity of that province;' There are now 245* tnilesXf railway wording in the colony, arfd 220 miles more of colonial line amd 69 miles of provincial railway will be added by (he end of September nestfta the woi king railways of the colony.) A Duoedin telegram to the Post says :-rJudgc Johnston in his charge to the Grand Jury said j " We had too rashly congratulated ourselves on the paucity of crime. T^e fact was there was a considerable amount of substantial crime." He terribly slated the magistrates and clerks for the faulty deposition g. Mr. William Quin, of Alberton, relates to the Advertiser an instance of a remarkable cure. One of bis cbildren appeared to be dying from membraneous croap. The . child had received medical attendance, and. when all remidies bad. failed, Mr Quin was shown a book containing an American remedy, which, on a trial proved wonderfully efficacious. The 'remedy is as follows .— *• Put a piece of slaked lime in a plate, and theu enfold the child in a tent, say a sheet, and allow it to inhale tbe fumes of the lime for the lenth of time the lime continues, to emit fumes."