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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2895, 6 July 1882, Page 3

MR FARNIE AND THE. OTAGO EDUCATION BOARD. Further correspondence has been published between the Otago Education Board and Mr Farnie, whose case has treated very considerable interest. The outcome of the correspondence is that the Board thus declares the conditions on which they are prepared to allow Mr Farnie to re-enter the Board’s' service : —“That you express regret for your attack upon MrGoyen, anaaiao intimate your ' submission to the Board’s ruling on the point of discipline which you have violated ;" r that is to* say, you will undertake that so long as you remain in the Board’s; service, you will not, whether in the discussion of public questions or otherwise, whether in your own name or. anonymously, publish anything calculated to injure, prejudice or annoy any of the Board’s officers, excepting in the legitimate way of complaint or memorial to the Board." Mr Farnie having replied to this, has. now been informed that he does not acquiesce in the Board’s viexvs 'of his position as laid down by them in their letter, and that until he does so the Board cannot allow him to re-enter their service. THE REIGN OP ASSASSINATION AT HAND.

The “ Voltaire ” publishes a communication only too much in harmony with th«tendencies of this teaching. Canards find easy circulation in times of excitement like the . present. The, vague, nightmare of a disordered brain may too soon be translated into rumor, and the rumor itself consolidated into grave statement. -But the following, for the truth of which no one can vouch,'is worth reading, if only as evidence of the measure of social distrust which makes such dreams possible ■ “People have been surprised that on the very day on which the new Secretary of State for Ireland took official possession of his post, he was murdered m company with the Under-Secretary, Mr Burke. This is the explanation: Some months ago a Secret Society, essentially political in character, and having, apparently at least, nothing in common with the Land league, Home Eule, or even with the Fenians, was formed in America. Its object is to render the English administration in Ireland well nigh impossible through terrorism. The principal plan is the assassination of all the high officials who may be sent to Ireland by the Government. The organisation of this Society is extremely powerful. Its chiefs have addressed themselves to the leading revolutionists in other countries, asking them to recommend them energetic men qnalified to facilitate the execution of their sinister projects. Their means of action are very great, as they have enormous sums at their disposal. They have sub-committees in the principal Irish to wns. The assassination of Mr Forster, the lute Secretary of State for Ireland, as well as that of Lord Cowper, the late Viceroy, had been ordered some months ago, and its execution has only been prevented by considerations of expediency. Lord Frederick Cavendish ani ’Mr Burke are the victims of this first sentence. All the representatives of the English Government are doomed. Machines such as those employed for the ‘execution’ of the Emperor Alexander are introduced into Ireland. On the day of the assassination several affilies, appointed by the foreign auxiliaries, wero in Dublin. Three of tluj, murderers are already abroad. Tho £IO,OOO sterling promised by tho Government for tho discovery of the assassins will not procure tho arrest of one man. Events of the utmost gravity are coming on in Irclaed,. and all the efforts of tho English Government to seize the organisers of this Society and to prevent the execution of their plans will prove ineffectual.” Eeally, the news of the attempt on the Princes of Wales’ life, published this morning, makes the