PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS EX-AMINATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 2, 3 January 1876, Page 2

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS EX-AMINATION.

TO THE EpiTOl^,Q_ ; . tr SHE.vfS3yENIN<J Maii,.? - ■ ,v.j.*> * i ;»*.i ! , .l -i- *„(5,u b .*.*..-._. , .' .. ..Sißr:;! npticeji^Jjhe^eport^of the exafnunf f s a^ciresse. to t__e* CembralS baf^/ptiM____dHA tlie jf^^/;;as ! '^ or t^wS ; 'exceplibHs. ! ho V_findlSkte? s_eemed5 _eemed to kn6#''th_it 'iTMbld^waW^terdWfm^ng o_ Englah^'owing his~Mngship.to exactly the saitfe 5 au^_t6rtty ■' _a<'hfer Y.pf esent JGradbuS Majesty ,>na__f_ly^ *,t hatMf*' the [ Gir leatV Council of the Nations." -It appears to me that such' « ia statement, cannot laid down -for public acceptance as s a true___istorical statement^of i%&. fact's* ,; and^ %> shall %^ li&S^the authorities upon which^it is^b'ased. Harold owed hia crown tp~the voice of the "Witeri- 1 agemot (comppsejd! of i nobles and clergy ), wjiich acted from motives of expediency-4-therightful heir;, Edg-^Athelfng* grandson* of .Edmund Ironside, beinf thfougnt too young W ascend the .throne in'such-troublous timfes. On the ' other hand, - Ahjxandfina Victbrih, wai^ieir tpf r the throne ;by tright) of ; descept, ' an^ .can falso, cl^im'Alirqdftb^f Great a^ We of her, "ancestors? ff^Uhles , J itf c^ribb^shown that the monarchy of England is purely., elective, it Pccurs.to'mevthe^tatement above quoted; needs considerable, qualif ying, I havie put* my mbahirig in as few words" as poMibib, arid have s non doubt . thef exaininersriwill at. once grasp the .position without unnecessary constitutional allusions onf my, part. ; ' : "'""'■" ; '"'■' f ra_n,-&c., i :i:--AA>tr~y.- R. C.A.'i" P.S. —^Accor.ding;tp Hume's history, Harold did not - , wait . for, the; "free deliberation of the States.,", n) '. ( . ; f" f / , J ! ff"'"'' ; - Nelsdn I , December 31. '■■■'■-•-'.. '■'■'■' • f