NELSON TOWN SCHOOLS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 303, 22 December 1877, Page 2

NELSON TOWN SCHOOLS

The following were accidentally omited from our yesterday's issue; —

HARDY-STREET GIRLS, Second Division.

Ist Class— For general yroficiency — J Webster, l ; J. A. Bond, 2 ; E. Brighten, 3; Second Class— G. E. Bond, 1; E. Johnston 3, B. Mills, 3. Third Class— E. Osborne, 1: i\ Brain, 2■, K. Hunter, 3. Fourth Clasa— M. Manning, l ; L. Savage, 2 ; E. Allen, 3 ; Writing-E. Walker ; Arithmetic— M. Randle ; Reading— A. Berry ; Poetry— X. Ward ; Perseverance— C. Stewart, L. Paul, E. Field, E, Webley, aud A. Nalder ; Behaviour—E. Edwards ; Attendance M. Waterhouse.

Thikd Division.

First Class— Bessie Clark, 1 ; Jessie Eure 2; M. Guy, 3 ; Amy Johnson, 4. Second Class— Amy Poole, 1 ; Ada Fiven.l ; Elizabeth Woodhouse, 3 ; Maud Woodman, 4. Third Class— Grace Main, 1 ; Alice White, 2 ; Minnie Good, 3 ; Edith Karsten, 4. Fourth Class— Clara Savage, 1 ; Ellen Davis, 2 ; C. Stuart, 3 ; Eliza White, 4. For general improvement—Lilly Brighten, Annie Wilkinson, A. Cooke, Frances Batchelor, and Maud Good.

The Wellington correspondent of a Napier paper writes:— Mr Lumsden estimates himself .about one thousand per cent more than anyone else does. The other day he prosed drearily for twenty minutes on the land question and— oh I horror I— there was no record of his inraluable observations iv Han&ard. Then was Luinsden very wroth and rushing into the House, with his dumpy form swelling with indignation, demanded that unheard of punishments should be inflicted on the devoted Hansard staff— instant dismissal was his mildest suggestion. To quiet the little member the Hansard staff was communicated with. Mr Barron (the chief of the staff) cruelly replied that there was an exceptional pressure of work at the time, and the reporters could only report such speeches as were worth itt Clothed, however, iv an invulnerable coat of selfesteem, the little man from Southland did not feel the cruel thrust, but we all wished he had, for lo! and behold, he accepted the excuse, and delivered the speech over again. Really, the Hansard staff did not deserve such a punishment as that. And what bad the House done to have to suffer such a grievous infliction?

A London correspondent says :— A second campaign, I need not say, means bankruptcy, for even the Dutch Bankers will hardly feel inclined to go on with Russia for another year, if they are to find the money for the war, another £50,000,000 at least, and to maintain the credit of Russia by taking off the market all the stock that is oifered by English iuvestors. All, or almost all, the purchases of Russian stock that might have been made in London for the last 18 months have been made by Russian brokers for the Amsterdam of Russian bankers, for the English keep oil selling and selling— it is all selling. There must, of course, be an end to this, and all the purchases so far haye been made upon the promise that by the end of September the Czar aud his Guards would be singing Te Deunas in Constantinople, and stabling their horses La the Mosque of Dyaub.