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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 183, 7 August 1867, Page 2

There is a feeling growing in the colonies that it will become necessary to make the education of children compulsory ou the parents, as is the case in Prussia- where if the child plays the truant the parent is fined, and playing truant is consequently very seldom repeated. Ib is admitted that in Victoria the rising generation will be anything but a credit to their parents. In New South Wales it is the rising generation that principally recruits the ranks of the bushrangers. The Church of England Bishop of "Victoria, Dr Perry, lately said: — "The laboring class as a whole is in my opinion at present a superior class; but I •tremble, I confess, for the next generation, on account of the deficiencies of education. For instance, as to the exercise of parental authority, it is impossible for auyone to observe the habits of this country and not to perceive that there does not exist the same parental authority in this country that exists in England and Scotland.'' Referring to this the Melbourne Argus remarks: — "This is discourngiug evidence in a country governed by manhood suffrage, and therefore a country in which general education must be necessarily complementary to such a franchise, if we propose to be ruled by the best intellect hereafter." We notice, by Tasmanian papers, that " Mr Ramsbottom has sent down to Hobart. Town a male trout, which, though only two years old measured nineteen inches in length and weighed three and a halfpounds. The mail trout are in the habit, during the spawning season, of fighting with much ferocity, and from several marks of injuries upon the specimen here spoken of, Messrs Allport and Ramsbottom entertain no doubt that it was in one of these contests that it lost its life. The fish was found dead in the River Plenty, close to its junction with the Derwent ; acid ,88 its size is believed to be unprecedented for its age, it will be preserved in spirits as an object of interest to naturalists and pisciculturists."