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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 187, 12 August 1867, Page 3

Mr Woodhouse, who left town with a party about three weeks since to prospect in the Karamea Valley, returned on Saturday night, and gives the best account of the results of his trip, which we hope to lay before our readers^to-morrow. MiJones and his party, relative for whose safety considerable apprehensions were entertained, have also, we are happy to state, returned to Nelson. The ketch Falcon has been purchased by Charles Redwood, Esq. of Riverland, Marlborough, for the sum of £1000, and will continue as a regular trader between Blenheim and Wellington. It appears that, up to the present time, no Volunteer Force has existed in Wellington. In two successive competitions for the colonial prizes the town of Wellington has ziot been represented, and even for a guard of honor for the Governor it has been obliged to depend on the ? country districts. This reproach to the • "Empire City" is likely to be soon removed, as it seems that steps have been taken to obtain the names of persons willing to form au Artillery Company, and : . that these efforts are likely to be success- ) ful. * A Wellington telegram states that I Captain Lyons, of the Charybdis, has re- ;! ceived advices with reference to the visit i of the Duke of Edinburgh. His Eoyal ;| Highness is expected to arrive here ?| towards the end of November or beginning ■•>| of December. To avoid jealousy, the *jf Prince's visits to the Australian colonies :| will be made in geographical order, begin- | ning with Western Australia. 1-• • • !| The complaiuts- of the existence of desif titution amongst. the laboring classes in if and around Adelaide are well founded. 'is | The applications for work through the I "free" columns of. the Advertiser, and

the number of applications to the Mayor for relief, have led to investigations which have resulted in demonstrating that much distress exists. The Mayor reports that o l the cases brought under his notice he has found over oue hundred anxious to work but utterly destitute, many of whom have families dependent upon them. The Australasian says that discussion of vexed poiuts in the education question raised by the late bill is by no means dormant. The Melbourne Teachers' Association is in the field with an official manifesto, signed l>y chairman and secretary, once more urging their suggestions for solution of the religious instruction difficulty. They are thus expressed : — " That religious instruction should be left to the voluntary efforts of the ministers^of the various denominations, tc the teachers in the school, and others, if authorised by the parents ; aud that local committees should be relieved from the duty of prescribing what it should be, in order that they might be iv a position to encourage combination among all parties, and to see that in every case the religious convictions of parents were respected. That there should be a separation not of secular from religious teaching, but a sepiration of the action of the Government in providing for the oue and that of the religious bodies iv providing for the other, so that each could work iv its appropriate sphere without being impeded by the other, aud thus satisfy both, and give the country the benefit of their efforts."