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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 141, 16 June 1877, Page 2

There afre certain schools where the children are .taught like parrots. • They are ■- caljedfpre-tparrotry schools. The pupils are ■ exercised in pretty pplly-syllables, and one boy isof ten the cock 6' two classes. The Wellington correspondent of the Napier Herald writes as follows! regarding Ministerial economies:-Ministers are haijd to reduce"certain of the expenses''con- . nected with our civil services. It is probable that in np department will great radical changes bei made, but in ,many there will be reduction, and therefore a considerable aggregate result. More .work, too, is -being . squeezed out of every individual civil servant. There is a good deal of talk, however, in .regard to the personal extravagance of Ministers. They nbw get liberal : salaries, and in addition, several of them - live rent free in ■large Ministerial residences. If a Minister needs a piano or a lawn-tennis ground, the country pays for it. The Ministerial residences are handsomely furnished,;and the cost swells more or less our national indebtedness. A Minister-will order costly furniture for the Ministerial residence, or he will order the Hinemda te be got ready to take him to see his run, or to. look after his interests in the goldfields, and in, the self-same hour will cut down ; the miserable salary of some overworked aiid underpaid civil servant. It would be a far better plan to pay the Ministers even more liberal salaries then they how ■ get,, if necessary, but not to allow them per- \ quisites. „-.- - - , .....