EDUCATION.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1672, 26 April 1862, Page 3

EDUCATION.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander. . Sir, —In your issue of Saturday last appeared a letter from Mr. \V. D. Lysnar (a professional educationalist), commenting on my letter of April 16th; and as Mr. Lysnar’s remarks are calculated to mislead those uninformed on the subject, I venture to trouble you again. The funds to which I alluded (and which Mr. Lysuar seems to think are in danger of misappropriation) are the funds arising from the recent revenuesset apart many years since for the support of a College: and Grammar School. Mr. Lysnar’s remarks about robbing the poor appear to be very much out of place. He to forget that there may be such a thing as injustice to the upper classes; it certainly would be so to exclude, their children from a grammar school supported; partly or wholly from public funds. In the present instance, however, four of the six scholarships are open to public competition, two are atone for those candidates whose means preclude their obtaining a college education without such aid. In my former letter I suggested the advisability of handing over a portion of the funds for the benefit of the Church of England Grammar School. The members of the Wesleyan, Presbyterain, and other societies who are carrying on public schools in connexion with their respective bodies, would probably be entitled to a proportionate share of these funds. The census might, perhaps, be taken as the basis on which to calculate the proportionate sums for which each denomination has a claim. The main question, however, appers to be, whether it would not be better to make use at once of tho funds on hand, in the manner suggested, than to await the accumulation of a sufficient sum to found a Provincial College and Grammar School, I am, &c., Alfeedcs, Auckland, April 23rd, 1862.

To the Editor ot the Nkw-Zealandeb. Sir,— As a new comer I hare been somewhat strode on reading two letters in your paper headed “Mr. Busby, the Land Claimant and Separationist.” Hearing very much of Mr. Busby, and seeing how wantonly, and at times coarsely, he attacks every body that gives him the least opposition, I have been induced to enquire the cause of his ill-temper and unceasing opposition to the present Government, General and Provincial, and am told that it is in consequence of one or other of these Governments refusing to let him have some 50,000 acres of land for some £2OOO, Sydney prices. Now, sir, observing Sydney prices to figure so largely in the schedule put forth, for information, I wish to ask you, of what the goods consisted? hard ware, soft ware, or the munitions of war? that I, as a new comer within these last two or three years, may know what Mr. Busby really did pay for the land; I shall then be able to judge the quid Mr. Busby gave for so princely an estate. I am, sir, yours, &c., Honestt. April 24th, 1862.