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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 1168, 18 July 1877, Page 4

The Times says:— For some time past the carcases supplied by the contractor to the Wandsworth aud Clapham Union have been sent in with the heads on, so as to ensure that the motion was. Southdown. At the meeting of the Guardians on Thursday, Mr Cresswell, medical officer, produced the bead of a sheep, stating that in consequence of its suspicious appearance, it was washed with some soap and water) when it was found that it had been painted, to give it the semblance of a Southdown. Canon Erskine Clarke (the cba.rmsnj aud several members expressed themselves strongly at the imposition, and decided that the butcher should appear before the Board at the next meeting. Henare. Matua, a Maori Chief at Hawke's Bay, is not partial to bagmen. In the Wananga Uenare Matua says to the packmen:— -"If you persist to take goods to tbe Maori settlements after the publication of this my notice to you, and if you are outwitted by the Maori children, or if your goods are stolen, and if you make a charge against auch children, they will not be iv the wrong, but you will be wrong, because you. -have seen tbis notice, aud afterwards you took your goads to the native settlements. Build a shop or store for yourself in some town to which the Maoris and Europeans may go< to purchase goods from you. My. Maori Iriends, do not let suoh Europeans come to your settlemeuts. Scud tbem away, and let tbem go on the road; tor their goode. It you wish for goods go to the town and buy lhem, where you caa obtain goods at lower I prices than you can obtaiu them from packmeu, aud where you can get the exact goods you are iv want of." The following appeared aa special telegrams in that curious paper, the Lyell Argus ;— " Loudon, 19ih June. —Tne ttu.dians attempted to carry Kars by a Coup de m_in, They fougui a great battle afterwards. Russian (loss, 42,402. Turks lost 42,403. Ru.aiau. Winning by one point. — The Turkish troops iv Widdiu number

abont:sG R OPO, they lexppo* Tan f increase j of 25,000 from Sophia.' (The above ! as-'fttote-GreyJA^ i i aon__' misft!_re -bo'nt too j bj&d , to . show, , the "girl up that ; svay. \ b l.a,~(F.od_ oar ovfcti correspondent). ! ,Ar jolly; atp^sh.yesterday; :5Q,0Q0 Turks . jtaken. prisofiie-Si .fand -abont IO,bOO •: .kiltedj e__!pe6t fche : war Ibvdr soon, aa 4&W& : WilPbV hdbddy Utft?ti>- fi*!...— Later. The Turks have called Yor tenders fqr -, Russian heads 1 : rEogland has sent 2000 tone of powder to .tffrita'i iiffd 'ordered her Fleet ;td 'be in jfe^dio^V''fif.' _ , a='_^orsaße;' : .-|; Twins. She ia the Daughter.. Not thevMathei' of t^v regimed.. Grey Argus in error. ' ' i; , .A correspondent furpishes , t.Kef fpl* lowing account of tli d proceedings ia i.'a Sj&te school to .the tMeiboume Tele-. graph :—" Qn Wednesday, the vßtjh i i&sfi^a portion of tho fdarth.laiji., ftajre I seniifltQjthe.porcb of the school, '-'^pd, , while there the head t.acher. noticed that a boy let dXi'ob' a i top, Which YcbmB__H«ed .o yp?im iThe M.ncj^r W i__ calie<i ! opjt flchpbf, ips,Jipvi|ig, See-Tonarged \wiin .lie o^ance-nv. hioh X was admi^ed^¥«s'-;k9p<ibli.-Uh^^_ttfdr; ! for an hour. The teacher r , to, 1 .1_8 ! afehoiars to ; khbw' wbWi r '_ort' J o_ >pjip- | ishment should be inflicted on; the. cv!-. i ppJArrffwhather be should: be stripped of j his coat, yes*, and shirt, and placed^-Vo^s ithe desk; those. in fa^or of hi* being | stripped of .his, coat, '-? . st,v #&4 shire, ,to holdup their hands. No hands • being held up it was then put to the vote whether he should 1 receive '24 cuts. •In ,tfais f as in,, the -first f instance,, no ! ha^ds, were held lip. The j ury of : his <\ fellows refn-ing to cob Viet their mate, ithe tdfech.r . resolved tha. i! the''^4 ' Cats should bd -tfi-riniste^ed' io him, \ which ! wps. , duly .irperforaied:, ,' before the jdfoll ; school. The teacher rested titer the 'first dozen rtdre given/ and' firii4hed : pff. : with renewed energy. The thong or istrap waa duly heated and singed in Ithe fire, so as to harden it and add to jits /striking, power. It appears that in .other instances, in minor offences such jas fighting and sparring in the school, 'throwing etoues and- cutting a '"boy's head, the measure of punishment varies, and is regulated on a scale oi from three to six cots of the chong, and somo get off scot free j bu. for the heinous pffence bf spinning a top on the floor of tbe, porch, the .proper measure is.. 24 buts of a heated thong, with a narrow escape of the culprit being publicly stripped of his clothing and placed over the desk and getting it over the bare skin. The boy's hands bled. The main facts as narrated have not been denied by the teacher, aod it is intended to bring the matter under the notice ot ihe Minister of Education. The unseemly exhibition created some excitement among the children, and some shed tears. " The following paragraph," says the Sydney Evening News, "appears in a letter recently addressed by Bishop Selwyn, of the Meianesian Mission, to the Bishop of Auckland . — 'At Opa we met< a largo barque, chartered by the Fiji Government, tohich waa returning with laborer.. She had 400 on board. They got a few on board to take with them, but very lew, mostly wohien and youag lads. I mention this because it enables me to finish this letter by calling attention to oue of the cryid? evils oi the labor traffic, viz , the taking away women without their husbands. In our island very lew. girls, of n_arfi_geable age are 'unmarried. Wheo, therefore, a woman oilers to go on board, a labor vessel, the presump- , tipn is that she is married, and a presumption nearly as strong is that shehas had a quarrel with her husband ■ add has run away. But no questions are asked—the woman is " recruited," and given "as wife to some one else immediately. It is evident that such a system eau only tend to lessen the respect ior the marrbge tie,, which, iv many is!a>n_s is loosa enough's ready. Mauy Government ageuis, to their hcjoor be it said, >sel their faces against: this, and often have great dissensions with their captains in conatquence • out with other, the argument is, " W. must huvo tho labor, ami if we asked all; oiauuer of qi___u_-_ we should not if." As if there was an a priori ue'pts.ity ihat the labor trade ol Qieeu^-lui-il aod Fiji ahould be carried on, evjsu while demoralising (iv this matter /it !le_Bi) the inhabitants ot Melanesia.' " The Kesideat Magistrate at Timaru has., uoasuifced a baker who put the word "ditto "■ frequently in his bill of partioulars. His Worship did not consider the word " ditto " sufficiently explicit.