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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 180, 11 July 1884, Page 2

The “ Honorable ” Profession.—Commenting on the correspondence which recently passed between Bishop Nevill and Mr. R. L. Stanford, the Sydney Telegraph remarks :— “ Most Churchmen and all men of the world will be of opinion that Mr. Stanford took a manly course in resigning tho pulpit before seeking a call to the bar. In every colony of this group there are ex-clergymen engaged in secular professions. Most of them formally quitted the sacred before they entered the secular calling. Imagine the contempt which would be brought upon the churches if an attempt were made to effect the ‘ public degradation ’ of every man whose conscience compelled him to act as Mr. Stanford has done !” The Government of Fiji liave issued a regulation that every native above 1G years of age is bound to plant four trees—two fruit trees, and two of useful timber—under penalty of fine or imprisonment.

There appears to have been very little exaggeration (says the Melbourne Ar#M.<) in the allegations which were made a few months ago to the effect that sonic 16 children of tenders had been abducted to India by the Pollard Opera Company without the knowledge or consent of their parents, who reside in Melbourne. The company recently returned to Queensland, where Mrs. Wallace, the mother of one of the children, was in waiting, she having gone over from Melbourne for ti. 3 purpose, and took possession of her child. Ruth Wallace, the girl in question, states that the whole of the children were taken to India against their wishes, and that they were not only badly treated, but allowed to go about in rags whilst there.