MR. KIDD OR DR. KIDD? To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3763, 10 August 1869, Page 6

MR. KIDD OR DR. KIDD? To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross.

Sir, — In Mr. Kidd'a criticism of his case in the Resident Magistrate 1 ! Court as reported by you there in an omission for which modeaty no doubt will account. That gentleman is mentioned repeatedly under the style «f Doctor, whereas he only clairai 1 believe the diploma of L.L.2?. His subordinate Mr. Flowen, coming to the nid of his chief, keeps up the mistake, and we have Dr. Eidd again ad nauseam. Will Mr. Flower inform the public by what law of couiteoy, right, or usage, or by what process of natural development, a mere Bachelor becomes a fullblown Doctor ? Ate we to have Br. Lust, Dr. Joy, <fee., &c. ? If Mr. Kidd ha» recently taken or had conferred upun him the higher degrae of Dootor your reader* will feel proud to read of another laurel won for Auckland. Sidus No, 2.

To tht Editor of tbt Daily Southern Cross. Sir,— The dispute between Mr. Kidd and M. Direy ii one that should be decided by ouatono. Speaking from nearly thirty years' connection with tbe sohoiastic profession in England, I may say that the principal is always responsible to the visiting professor, whether tbo professor's chargei are a fixed sum par pupil or not, unless a ipecifio agreement b« made to tha contrary ; and th« proof of this lies with the principal This is but reasonable, as otherwine the profebior would have to giro credit, whether willing or not, to unknown person* ; and, in the case of a diihouest prinoipulj might «uffsr from direct; fraud.— l am, sir, Ac , Thomas E. Wyatt. Arch Hill, Augnut 1, 1869.

A countryman walking along the streets of London found bis progreii utoppoed by a barricade of wood. " What's this for ?" mud he to a person in the street. Oh. that's to stop the ftrer," said the countryman, " Fre often heard of (he Board of Health, but 1, never |»W it b«foWi"

no W ,.y ban to ,!o with M* t , *£'* * "°'» en s » the ..utiiuental Ninie of i> i- phr* fc "° °"»«1 >' way by the „0,t3. of «hioh St.-,.. ou , *» "P*"" «!:en Chios turn* hrr oe, in the . h ,«,,ie * l'(l ' ( otl }» *» that in Hhich lie is nupioaiin..,'. \. » hor« to tLe poßi*iv. , acti\ c, 1-liy-icJ . i iu-iy - * wowon are 8«ul i«»il> u. be guilt), .-.ml .f wh v «"} l " c » nccuser. a«BH-t tlioy are iniinilul) ni'ire c»p * l>le l jj ail m '"- Iv vanoiu "' acts of acoiihutioii " wine IVWe have recently road Uinl l»ea »1 apok.u,' both direct a / an « l indirectly, wo li»vo foimd it to ha iißßcri «*', wo tb»t in uo ho«itHtiiigmanntir, tliat \w>iut>n <3* ily commit cru<)ltied which would U [fif.ctly ii oj-oißiblt/ to men, Dohbtleaa lhe>e as»>eitioiiß i.if h tterly inoODsistent with tbe ido.il of yeiitlo woinu«h«< id which prevailt. Wo tliiak of wnmeu »» coothiig, not ob inflicting p»iu— as dreadiug it mmo f.-t oth- irs thiiu for thorn* bclVcb i>B fnariug to hurt the smallest sentibUt creaturV. Far be it frmn it* to bb f that this ideal is ' uot, iv the v»ht nnjoruy <>i ia> ra, nobly realiued ; but we far that the- acciisaiion o ( cruelly wbich )■ brought uguiuut a larii« ruiutt'er nf r omea is supported by too many faotu bioiiuht in cvid moo to permit us eutirely to Uupy it. Woraou, it is H»id, aie cruel iv their treatmeut of horse*, 'ihey overwork their oarriaj-f hornts, aud m ruling they are swd to " get more ouo ot their hor*eH thuu uiea do"- a «uj>huiatic way of making a statement which is reroltiai; if Hue, The jxotMiiie which u put on milliners »nd dr&,siuakeid to produce work in u nueceasarily short peiioda of time is an illusbra non of the kind of cruelty of which woman is capable ; aud the work which i* exacted fiom aervnntx, tho long hours of watchiug, tho ataudmg, tho djsiegard of tlieir weariueaa, are all example* of the waut of thought for othera which lnauy women exhibit, and whioh iv it» effect amounts to posifcivo cruelty. Wa wilt say noibiug of th« capacity for (living mtntal pain which is poMeyeed by many womeu— of tho power of iuflictiug trivial wounds that irritate and madden moro th*u doepur cuts would do. ' Such uncuvitblt power in po»B«B»»id »ud ejfprcjipd eyen by some who. would deny th# poj»ibilily of their iujjioting pbyiietl pain. The evil, uo doubt, U a result of waut of thought. M*ny women Htum to look upoa their itrvftutu aud dependents, whether human or auimal, as w*cUinc|» o»t «f whjoh go njugU work is to be got, and utterly ignore the fgpb that they are, cieature* subject to pain and wearino*i just as much tig thenjHfjlypx, The cyltivatiou of greater breadth of ayraiaiby and la'g«r)fupw)piigp among women would, \re am sure tend to lofeS«,u the Wneltioi which they inflict tUioughiguofaupe.— Fronj the Queen,