Interprovincial News.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3619, 2 August 1880, Page 2

Interprovincial News.

The Wellington Chronicle, of a late date, gives a Parliamentary portrait of Mr Seymour Thomas George, M.H.R,, j for Kodney:— " The member for Rodney has entered political life under auspices surrounding few politicians. He has, and has had for a mentor/the ablest man Polynesia has yet seen. Few colonies have the sksin of political life so tangled as New Zealand. Every knot in each thread in the skein is known to Sir George Grey, and by participation and communication, mauy have become known to the sen of Sir George Grey's old friend, Ithe father of the late member for Hokitika. He thus started from a better vantage ground than other young men in the House of Representatives. He does not tell all he knows when a stranger would thiuk he did ; nor in the moments of apparent frankness does he say all he thinks. Yet no man who knows him would accuse him of deceit. He has mellowed much since be made his first speech in the House, and has done so rapidly. He will take honors on the Liberal side when they have a lease of power. He may be counted on under strong temptation to run straight■ Believed by the accident of birth and fortune from providing for the morrow, he does what all young men of his class should do—take an intelligent interest in ! political affairs." /.

The Dunedin Echo (Mr Stout's organ) says:—" And so there is to be a fight for the introduction of sectarian teaching into our public schools. Sir William Fox is to move that the Bible be read under a strict conscience clause. Whose conscience : The teachers P If so; wha is to read it ? Suppose a country school with a freethinking schcolmaster—what is to done 1 Is the freethinker to read a book of whose teaching he disapproves ? Or suppose a Jewish teacher is to read the Gospel of John or the Epistle to the Hebrews. According to Sir William the only persons that have consciences are - children or their parents: the teachers have none apparently. Sir William had better worm out native extravagance and attend to ' local option,' and leave the Bible question alone.