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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 6, Issue 287, 27 March 1862, Page 4

Tiie Ckixs at Railway Station's. —A correspondent writes:—*, I observe your article regarding calling out the names of stations on : railways, and beg to recommend a practice followed by tbe Edinburgh and Glasgow Company’s officials on the point. At almost every station the stationmaster has a starling or parrot so trained, that whenever a train draws up at the platform, it commences calling out the name of the station most distinctly, and continues to scream it out until the train starts. This is found an economical mode of informing the pas-, sengers where they are' ; and as this,is the best mode' pf inaking a clear. announcement, free from all peculiarities of dialect, 1 would recommend you to make* the' matter public.” Builder. - '' An Analysis of a Return, specifying the several schools in connection with the National Board of Education in Ireland in which Protestant and Roman Catholic children are educated shows the following results:— Ulster. Munster. Loinster. Con’ght Number of

The Mauritius. —It appears that the; num-, her of immigrants introduced into the. Mauritiusfrom India during the-'last eighteen years has been as follows :—1843 31,258 ; .1844, 14,152 ; ,1845, 10,285 i 1846, 6789 ; 1847, 5729' r 1848, $303 ; 1849 v 7282; 1850,' 9823 1852, 16,796 : 1853, 12,144 ;, 1854; 18,-516,; 1855, 12,915; 1856, 12,-953 ; -485?,• 12,729 ; 1858, 29,946 ; 1859, 44,397 ; and 1860, 13,286} making atotal of 273,770,- besides .4158 ; duced by.private individuals, and sl3 and Others introduced in 1843 and. 1S ‘5. P-f the 200,000 immigrants introduced between; 1849 and 1860 inclusive, about 150,0QP appeared to have remained, either dead or. alive, in the 'colony, the departures for India in tuat period haying amounted to 49,916. As far as can ha ascertained-,• the-immigrants received' between 4843-and 1860 consisted of 195,9G0. 1 then, ; , 48, 000

mixed Schools 1.602 433 509 354 Total on roll in 1859 154,302 Of ‘whom: Protest51,0$fc 51,998 37,884 ants 72,888 1,974 3,108 2,147 Roman Catholics 81,414 49*092 48*890. 35*737