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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 29, 22 February 1873, Page 2

An American gentleman has recently been lecturing upon the "Newspaper Press,” and among other very sensible things he said “If a newspaper writer be faithful to his trust, honest, fearless, and independent, he must make enemies and powerful ones;” to which may bo added, that truth and right will prevail even against them. The Education Rate.—The Auckland correspondent of the Hawke'» Bay Herald has (or says he has) discovered a new element in the Education Act recently passed by the Provincial Council. He says. —“ The new Act proposes to enforce no less than a three-fold tax, viz., the £1 rate, a househould tax, and a fee for each child up to the fourth child in each family that happens to have that number of children.” This maybe correct, but we have heard nothing of it here as yet; and our isolation must be our plea for being so far behind hand in a keen observance of things that concern us so nearly. ' Shipping and Custom House forms, can be had at the office of the Standard.