LATEST TELEGRAMS. SPECIAL TO THE POST. THE HERALD ON TABLET. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AUCKLAND. 1st December.

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 283, 3 December 1877, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS. SPECIAL TO THE POST. THE HERALD ON TABLET. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AUCKLAND. 1st December.

The New Zealand Herald defends the Native ! Minister and the Government from the attack of the Tablet in the matter of the schools, and j condemns the advice given by that journal to vote against the Native Minister and the i Government, because of the secularism of the Education Bill. The Herald points out the great good already accomplished in the Auckland province under the present secular system, to which the colony has commended itself. Perhaps by some this may be felt to be a hardship, but experience has proved it to be almost impossible for a State to establish a denominational system of education, and hold a proper control over it in its various ramifications. These efforts to denounce it, to influence a large body of electors to ostracise an able minister, and to outvote a government on a question of sectarian education, tend to sacrifice an educational policy which has secured a general and widespread support throughout the colony, and to sacrifice also other general and most important points in the whole political future of the colony. This line of action, proposed by the journal quoted, is one to which the public at large will not make themselves consenting parties. Fulminations of this kind, seriously proposing the destruction of a Ministry which for one thing alone — its land policy — merits the support of the colony, are not likely to influence the mass of the electors, except in a direction opposite to that which is intended.