ENDOWED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 229, 6 August 1864, Page 4

ENDOWED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

Our readers will remember that some months since wo drew attention to the fact t hat there was. for Auckland, an unusual amount of destitution existing in our midst, —that the Provincial funds would have to be drawn upon to the exI tent of sonic £'J,f)01), during the winter, for the | support ol those whom peculiar circumstances ; had left a charge upon public charity —the ' orphan children, the wives and families deserted [ by drunken and profligate husbands and fathers. —and other destitute persons. M e strongly urged at the time, the advisa- . bility of the Provincial Government insisting that the three denominational Institutions, enriched with public grants of valuable laud, and the funds of whieh had been diverted, from the intention of the foundtrs. to the exclusive support of native children, should bo equally thrown open to the destitute children of our own race. 1 he Provincial (iovcrnment with an energv and right mindcdness, which docs them infinite credit persisted in their endeavours to turn the funds ot these valuable institutions into their legitimate channel, and though they met with determined _ opposition in high quarters, thev succeeded in carrying out their benevolent object, and as we shortly afterwards made our . readers aware, a number of orphan children were received into each of these institutions—"St. Stephen s, "j">t. Mary's," North Shore, and the " Three Kings." An attempt was made at the time by the Ne;r // alamlt r to uccry this innovation on the system which had been heretofore adopted, that of allow ing aori children and young persons of the native race alone to participate in the benefits of these institutions, which are intended not-only to be of the nature of an asylum, but , for the educational training of the inmates, tacts, however, are stubborn tilings, and it. had been recently discovered, by mere accident, that these istitutions were founded for the use of both races alike. There was no mistaking the words ol the grant, and the exelnsiveness which had been practised by those whose sympathies are extended only to the Maori, has been no longer permitted to he continued. AN e are rejoiced to see the amount of good which has been done by this change. There were among us a large number of destitute children ; there are. we are sorry to say, still many unprovided for. Much good has been eH'ectecl. Mure may yet be done. These properties are valuable ones, worth at the present time some sixty thousand pounds. That at the Three ' fvings, when properly managed may sustain a j far greater number of children than"if. does at J present. W liile the property of" St, Stephens," although too small and infertile to have been made of' much value in an agricultural point of view, might have been put to use instead of having been buried in a napkin, and would now have brought forth fruit an hundred fold. A great part of it might have been Jet at high prices on building leases—wouldhave brought in an immediate rental, and, when the leases expired, have been increased in value tenfold. Seventeen acres of land in the suburbs of Auckland, beautifully situated on the harbour, ten of whieh might very well have been let on lease, is a valuable property indeed. These properties whieh were granted by Governor Fitzroy for definite public purposes, are the people's estate, and not, as they have been made ot late 3'ears, little more than private property. There is an end, howcvei. to the abuse ot these trusts, and we hope to see them in a 3'ear or two s time, what they should have been now— self-supporting. As it is, the Provincial Gorcrn- | ment pays to the several institutions £10 per head, yearly, for each child—a large sum. and one whieh, we think, might, be, "with proper management, very greatly reduced ; not do we see why these institutions should not bo so managed as to receive the whole of our destitute children, who flight there be taught the rudiments of an English education, and the knowledge of the trade_ for which they showed the largest amount ol aptitude. This would be applying these properties to the intention of the founders, who never wished to see them converted into something very little better than Maori lazarettos. | Our special reporter has visited each of these ; institutions, and wc publish below the results of « his visits. lo that of St. Mary's the censure J 1 we have felt bound to use does not apply, and I to tho present managers of all these we have to •' return our thanks for the courtesy shown to the I 1 gentlemen who visited tliein on our behalf.

ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, I'AItXELL. This institution is, perhaps, more generalh' known as Archdeacon Kisling's College, and is an establishment in connection with the Church of England, under the supervision of the Bishop of •STow Zealand and Archdeacon Kisling, and is managed by Mr. Chapman. The locality needs no description, as it is so near Auckland. The establishment is situated on a grant of land of about 17 acres, which, although very valuable property as building laud, °is at present non-productive. The Board of Education contributes a certain allowance to the support of tlio collegc. Xho number of .European orphans here: leceiving support and training amounts to 38, and 10 more are expected. The Maoris number The orphans are, many of thorn, children of soldiers; and some of the poor little things are as young as two years old. can exceed the kindness tlicy receive at the hands of Mrs. Chapman and the Matron, Mrs. A\ atson, who was for four years in charge of the Orphan Institution ; but there is a great want of further accommodation lor them.

Many of the children, after remaining nwhile in the establishment, are adopted by the charitably disposed —six having already boon thus provided for. The coursc of instruction embraces reading, writing, and arithmetic, with some useful trade: six of the i Maoris are now in trades in Auckland, as tailor?, carpenters, and printers. Many have been, also, ordained a.t ministers, one being located at Tanpil'i, one at Mokntu, one at AVellington, and one at the T»;n* of MutuK There have been ten, altogether, ordained. One pupil is now engaged as a purveyor, and supports his wife and mother at the institution. Tt has not been found that the war has materially decreased the number of the native pupils, although it has made pome difference. The rooms into which we were shown were all largo. well ventilated, scrupulously clean, and in every wav exceedingly comfortable. The diet consists of hall' a pound of meat, with vegetables, daily: and bread, with tea, * for the morning and evening meals. The orphans are kept separate from the Maoris, a temporary corrugated iron building being appropriated to them in the dav-time, though at night they sleep in the main building; and we must mention that the ladies of the neighbourhood take in turn the task of attending daily and teachinsr them. With the one exception of more room, nothing could bo demanded that is not provided for these poor little homeless infants, and the kind protection and nursing they receive from such ladies as Mrs. Chapman and Mrs. "Watson may in many eases more than supnly the want of the mothers they have lost. The Maoris are domiciled in a row of buildings situated on one side (.f the dwellinghouse, and appear to bo very comfortable and clean; three strapping fellows were busily and merrily engaged at the wash-tub during our visit, and the regulation that exacts a due observance of cleanliness seemed to bo rigidly insisted upon in every department of the row of buildings. ST. M,Ui\"'s COLT.KOE, XORTII SnOUE. Another of the endowed institutions of the province to which we will now direct our reader's attention. is the Roman Catholic establishment on the North Shore, known to all the country-side as St. Mary's College. To reach this we stroll down to the waterman's house at the Wharf, on a fine sunny afternoon, and there, in company with some half-a-dozen or so of others, on business or pleasure bent, we await the loading of the ferry-boat with a goodly quantity of sacks of flour, hams, potatoes, ca-ks of pork, barrels of rice, and other comestibles which make one almost imagine that the good folks on 'tother side of the water entertain some notions of a probable siege of Auckland, and are providing themselves accordingly. The dead portion of the cargo being comfortably accommodated between thethwarts, the living freight-are invited to descend, and placing themselves as they can on the various articles of merchandise of which honourable mention has been made, we glide, under the influence of a gentle breeze, on to the broad and placid bosom of the W'aitemata. We are a " motley crew," not devoid of a certain picturesque element: and when Auckland lias its "Royal Academv, we would suggest to the Corbould or Stanfield of that dav " the North Shore TVrrv-hoat" as a subject thnt might bo worth the labour of a marine or character painter—a sort of southern prototype of the famous and often copied "Vespers on the T.ago Masrgiore." It is true the passengers arc not kneeling in devotion at the sound of the bell that calls them to their evening prayers, but there are two who throw themselves into attitudes of considerable trrace in the attempt to extract a light for tlK' ; r pipes from a box of damp matches, and the liffht being at length obtained, a fine efl'ect chiar nst'uro is produced as the glebm is reflected on their bronzed faces under the sheltering hat. Then there is the same young mother as in the Italian picture, continuously and ostentatiously engaged in maternal offices for her infant progeny, upon whom either the slight swell on the water, or previous gingerbread. produces effects analogous to thr.se which all experience who go down to the sea in ships and do unpleasant business on the great waters. The. sacerdotal character of the scene is preserved bv the presence of some dark-robed r.nd henevolentlookine priests who have come over from the institution we are about, to visit, and are paternallv engaged in tiie assiduous cramming of their young charges with apples, oranges, and cnlres, to the imminent danger of' effecting an internal convulsion corresponding to that which has manifested itself in the aforementioned baby. Instead oftliebandit-looking Sicilian boatmen, wo have a tatooed old Maori in a most effective sou'-wester, quite as swarthy and almost as truculent. There is the fame broad crimson splash of light from the sun setting redly behind the wooded ranges, and much the same degree of picturesque ruggedness in the accessories. So that really it would make a capital picture, and we claim a share of the thousand guineas for which no doubt it will ; be sr.hi—when painted. | Ihe hours voyage bv the ferry boat is not less \ pleasant in a moral and instructive than in a picj turesque point of view. We learn thereby that | " Billy's had the faver rale bad :" that "thim airly ! frosts plays the divil with the spuds:'' that Messrs. Slasher and Crasher of King-street will infallibly ' bust' within the week, and won't pav " tin brass fardens in the poundand we are entertained by a long and eloquent dissertation on the merits of a piece of iron, which a North Shore experimentalist is bringing over with him. and which he explains to be the exact species of plou ;li that the Patriarch's used in the days before the flood. To our ym-bocolic appreciation," "t'isan iron spike and nothing more," but it is admitted on a'l hands to have great merits in bush land, and to be capable of doing " a power of execution among ti-'.ree." The s])ike ultimately finds its way to baby's hinds, and it of course transferred thence to its mout : i. where is seems to afford much delectation and to supersede in attractiveness the 'maternal fount.' Arrived at length in Shoal Pay, we prove by actual experience that the said inlet has been appropriately named, inasmuch as we find (-involves fast aground within a few yards of the little wooden erection at which wc are to land, and have to wait as patiently as we may, until the " water has made." When 'this singular inversion of grammatical sequence has hekn accomplished, we effect a triumphant debarkation, and. scrambling in the dark up a few ricketty steps, rudely j cut in the steep bank, come out on the elevated plateau overlooking the river and harb'-ur. From hence a short walk through tlio ti-tree scrub and ■along a grassy road brings us into what turns out by daylight to be a neatly laid out garden, and in ■the midst of it a heavy substantial building of rough scoria blocks, which is the end of our journey. In a few minutes we are cosily established before a' glorious bush fire, in the snug room of the College Pcetor and him we place under a severe and heavy fire of interrogatories, from the replies to which are elicited the following statistics :—

Some seventeen or eighteen years ago tlie Tievcl. Bishop Pompalliez-, who presided over the Order of •Saint Mary in New Zealand, blessed and laid the firet stone of the present structure under the title of Saint Mary's College. It was occupied by the Fathers c-f the Order as a Mission Station for the instruction in Christianity and civilisation of the Maoris who were collected from nearly all parts of the island, who built themselves whares ill the vicinity of the Collece and were occupied in cultivating its land under the supervision of their spiritual pastors and teachers. The building was erected by the hands of the Fathers themselves, assisted only by some resident architects sent over to them by the Government of the time. Twenty acres of moderately fertile land immediately surrounding it were purchased with funds derived from the Society for the propagation of I the Faith and other sources. Besides this a considerable portion of land on the other side of a small creek was allotted to the College by the Government, but this still remains pretty much in the same condition as wliqn first alienated. The structure comprises a number of apartments, at present distributed in the following orderA dormitory abont 50 feet bv -5, occupied by 4-1 little cots, ranged in regular order against the rough utdined walls.' This apartment enjoys an advantage common to very few sleeping apartments—that of efficient ventilation. There is another dormitory with seven beds for the Seminarists, or those who receive a higher and moie expensive education. The Refectory is a room of some 30 feet by 20, wherein all the pupils taken their meals in common ; and this is also used as a class-room until a detached wooden house, at present inhabited, can bo fitted up for the purpose. There are, besides, six rooms for prefesisors, two for the rector; a small class room for senior pupils, a large kitchen with cellar, and other accessories. Apart from the building is a neat .i tie wooden chapel, which serves equally for the di vol ions of the school and of the yarochial communicants ; but it is so small as not to be cajiable of containing both at the same time, thus necessitating double services throughout the day on Sunday, and entailing a vast amount of extra and most fatiguing duty on the oUieiatmg clergyman. One of the improvements most needed would be a gallery in this edifice for the use of the scholars, so that they could attend service at the same service as the parisioners, but want of funds has hitherto do-

layed this alteration, us well as many others, urgently required. For some years the College, under the direction of the Kevds. t ather Segallas, who, about a year since left this colony on a visit to Europe, and Walter Maedonnell continued to fulfil its original purposes of teaching a. few external pupils, mostly of the native race, but at the outbreak of the war the number of these was reduced to eleven. In April last, the Rev Laurent Yiiiay, who had charge of the Bomau Catholic Mission Station at Rangiawhia, found himself compelled to leave his school and station bv the advent of the British troops, and being appointed Rector of Saint Mary's College, he brought up with him eight or ten Maori and half-caste pupils, who had been deprived of parental care by the accidents of war, or by their parents joining their tribes, and immediately commenced to inaugurate a more extended career of usefulness for the institution that had been placed under his charge. The scene of lii 3 operations presented every opportunity for a man of energy and determination to eil'ect beneficial changes. The building was a, mere shell of rough scoria, comfortless in the extreme, and possessing none of the requirements necessary for a large and well ordered school. By his earnest and -n-ell-dircetcd eiforts, it. has already been rendered habitable and comparatively comfortable. Many of the previously bare, conventual-looking cells have been converted into cosy little rooms bv the aid of the paperhanger and plasterer. Monsieur Vinav is a Frenchman, aud the influence of French taste is everywhere visible in the grace with which a little bit of cheap calico has been made to do dutv as an elegant drapery,—a pot of eommon flowers "adds a charm to a dull prison-like window, —a bare stone wall hidden behind a bright chintz, hanging, and with a few religious prints dispersed with taste and judgment, becomes a pretiy and attractive object. The garden, erst a wilderness, is gradually beiunbrought into cultivation for useful us well as ornu' mental purposes, by the labors of the pupils themselves, who are thus taught an art by which they mav at their entrance upon active life, earn a decent subsistence, and at the same time aid in their own maintenance, while still within the walls of the establishment. It is, likewise, a part of the Rector's plan to gradually bring the waste land of the College reserve into profitable cultivation by the same means, so as to fit it at least for the pasturage of sheep, which being the property of the College, may yield an appreciable addition to its funds, which, under the present system of partnership they scarcely do. "We will now proceed to describe what these funds amoiuit to. whence they ars derived, and how applied. There are, at present, in the College, 57 pupils, thus distributed :— 8 feminarists. 2 students in theology, 27 white orphans, and 20 Maori and half-caste boys. For the instruction and guidance of these 57 bovs there are 3 professors, 1 priest, 2 ecclesiastics, one guardian, and the Hector, besides two or three Maori servants, male and female, who act as cooks, laundresses. &e., and serve without any remuneration beyond the consciousness of a self-imposed duty well and honestly performed, from pure attachment to the institution that has sheltered them and theirs, and the instructors who have redeemed them from barbarism. The seminarists pay £"30 a-year for their board, lodging and education, in the classics, higher mathematics, modem languages, and all such branches as will lit them for a scientific, legal, or commercial caver: or for the Church, should their own proclivities or their parent's wishes induce them tiltimately to adopt the clerical tonsure. Thev are kept wholly apart from the other pupils, except at the performance of religious exercises, when of course, verbal or personal intercourse is impossible. Their acquirements, as far as we had an opportunity of judgins, and considering the shoit period that they have been under their present course of instruction, seemed to be at least on a par with those of (arefully educated youths of the same age else where. The ecclesiastics are destined for the priesthood, and arc specially instructed in thepreccpls anddoetrinesof Catholicism and the practice of its ceremonies. They are the eh res of the diocese, and are maintained by its funds until ordained for holy orders. The 27 white children are all orphans, mostly those of soldiers who have fallen in the war, or of destitute persons who have left them to the mercy of the world and the charity of this and similar institutions. These are all clothed, lodged, and fed in the simplest and most frugal fashion, and instructed in the rudimentary principles of religion and morality, and in sucii branches of learning as will fit them for the humble tlioiigh useful career, to which the greater part are probably destined. They will also, as soon as the requisite funds con be obtained, be taught some ordinary mechanical trade which will enable them to earn their own living, aud thus save them from becoming " street Arabs," and adding to the alr-'aclv formidable array of our " danfrerous classes." For each of these orphans the Provincial Government allots t lie annual stmt of £10—a sum it must he admitted very moderate for the securing of such important benefits to the community, and quite inadequate to the suitable maintenance of a heartv bov of perhaps 12 years old. In the case of Pt. Mary's College, where, unlike the two institutions on themain laud, valuable grants of pub!:e land have not been made.

I _ I here is one plan. and a feasible plan too, by which | it is proposed to turn the property of the College to j profitable account. Ir is by the disposal of the | scoria which underlies in great boulder? of a very dense character, the whole of the land on which the j garden is formed ; and so close to a crook navigable at high water, that it can be delivered into boats with very little trouble, and delivered, it is said, in the city cheaper thnn any other building stone. The remaining twenty are Maori and half-caste children, who receive a precisely similar treatment to the preceding, and for each of whom the same sum is paid yearly by the Colonial Government. A noteworthy feature in the practice of the school is, that the native children are not permitted on any occasion to use their own language, and their white playmates are strictly forbidden from holding any intercourse with them exeept In English. It iV astonishing how soon under this system, the little aborigines become completely Anglicized. lo show that the very moderate funds applicable j to this object are not wasted in luxrious living, we here sppend the daily scale of dietary. Breakfast: — and sugar, with tea every other day, and bread on the alternate days. Dinner, —Soup composed of salt meat and potatoes. Supper,—TCice, as at breakfast, without the tea or bread. This is but meagre fare, hut under the judicious training of their French , guardians, the children are taught to supplement : their ordinary rations by catering for themselves, as iy?rhaps they may have to do in their subsequent bush life. Accordingly they search industriously forwaferrreses, which are cooked as spinach, for dandelion useu in soup, taua berries, good as jam, and feh which they catch for themselves for the jours maigres. This latter industry, however, suffers from the same lack of means, that cramps the Director's energies ill every direction—money is wanting to buy a net. But to show what can he done under adverse circumstances. it was told to us that the boys on? day brought'in no less than fight hundredweight of ft'/- 1 , caught with their hands in the adjacent swamp. We may conclude our account of this really admirable establishment with an earnest appeal to the benevolent for assistance in the shape of money or materials, aud au assurance that it will be well bestowed.

As a specimen of the curious way in win el 1 the foreign element Ims unwittingly intruded itself in tho direction, not at all to the disadvantage of the general organization, -the following literal transcript of the rules supended in the hall, in jVlp.ori, English* and Latin, is subjoined :— Distribution of time for the Great Seminarists* **tm« et Tac quod bit. t Parete ad Sanatorium ITeum. 6. Rising and washing. 6.20. Study of Holy Scripture. 7. Prayer and Meditatiou. 7.10. Study of Theology. 8. Breakfast in common. 8.20. Recreation or manual labor. 9. Class for the natives and young Seminarists. 10. Study of Theology. 10*. Class of the Morals, in the room of the Rector. 111. Study—Preparation of the eveuinc class. 12i. Dinner, 1. Recreation or manual labor. 2. Class of the II"ly Scriptures, in the Rector's room. 2.1 G. rrcpar-ation of tlie class for the natives and youns Semiuarists. 3.30. Class for the natives and young Seminarists. 4 30. Recreation, or manual labor. 5. Class of the Dognnis, in the Rector's room. 5 Jo. Study of Theology-. 0.30. Supper. 7. Recreation. 7.30. Chiss i.i Trench with the young Seminarists. S. Rosary and Spiritual Lecture in common. 8.30. Evening Prayer in common. S.-10. Study of Theology. 0.30. To go to bed. 0.10. To be in bed and the lights extinguished.

the three kings. ~ ;, ls titution lies back from tho Epsom road on 'i > of the mountains overlooking the "Waitemata ranges of tho Waitukerei, and sepann ,/,,n Auckland bv tho dreary scoria region at r; 11 'Wt" f Mount Mon. \\.-,-irhins 1)V il sniocith, lawn-like paddock ■r sheltered in clumps by patches f ti-t ro " which has been left standing, and 1 "V-i tliirk of ewes just now lambing, wo came pi'sMPt • vunl ] cottage, to (he left of which, oil "I" 11 ' j ; r j.jf)',; of a considerable space of lawn, were °l ir"e" long wooden buildings. Outside on tho ,w ' ,> a number of children disporting themin the sunshine, Maoris and sturdy little V -viiis fraternising over a game of marbles, while "i'ii'l- anil some small, very small, motherless or children were playing on the grass, the r'. I .' ' kicking up their legs in huge delight, p'v'tl'ie ivurtesv of the Superintendent, Sir. Collis, .. vn . tli.'u maile acquainted with the rules of the V ''. ui'l shown how they wore worked. ' "l'r' 'iiiTu-'ir- ;}::<t in this establishment there are at J,•iit altocvtlior ! ' papist none of whom are adults. I- 1 those aie orphans of British settlers. All -ij. are eligible for admission upon application, j lV:,lt'-i-:isti-s of destitute parents, though half'".v. «'!io ''an pay their expenses are expected to |,' O l,. while orphans wlio have been receiving Go".'"iu'.e::t rations are admitted by order of the Super- ■ vV i'-i.t of the province. I "x'li.■ (fovernnient contributes the sum of £10 per ~ 1 ,' ieii pupil, and the proceeds of the farm .•l irV. il t' l the Institution are also devoted to its This is under the management of a paid iVrier. wlio is assisted by the elder pupils after their s .Vol-).ours. and the proper system of farming is •i-u- ni:» ! .e a part of their education, as we think, v ir v : u<ii''i"ti-Iy. There an-, we were informed, T t -':hi r. Tt'O ai res of land in the farm, but as it is 'rlany places entirely covered with scoria boulders, ■t vi-n' lai'L'C per centago of that number of acres r o>t he di ducted as useless. Tiie iirst room to whieli vrc were conducted was kiti'lu ti. a large room, at the end of which were eviiis and boilers. in which dinner was being •, r , uniler the supervision of some of the bigger jw-. who take it in turn to cock. "We next visited the diaiii-'-t'ooii'.. a long, clean, well-ventilated apartment, v. :h .i 1 U-' window at one end, making it fresh and jv-araii:. 11 ore were some of the young European - t.-iltjisir their dinner before the others came i:.: :V' -h bet i and soup, with a plateful of fine large grown on the farm, foimcd the most invtii looking n:e:u. The' little fellows were bnsil v t: in id -orbing it. with all the appeararce of a il J'leriation of its merits. dietary seale seems wholesome and liberal judging frcm the following details:—On Sur.i'nv nioining and evening, and 011 another day in wi ik. they have bread mid tea; on the other fi.vs. ti.o morning and evening meals consist of rice, ui:h irii' h fresh milk from the farm as they can j. v ihir.k ; aial for dinner tliere is every day an w;ii!vv - f beef and potatoes, or, by wav of varietv. j.:k . r i::n::•■:!. The dining-room is also u.-ed for 1.-oi: i:iir :md evening worship. I'll stairs ,'ind running the whole length of the tuiidine. is the boy's doimitory—a well ventilated i m a:ily-ki i-t room, with the small beds rantred ::lt i :.< h side : ev, ry morning the boys have to sw., j. tut. and once a week it is thoroughly wi:-: eii out. Another department is devoted to the e;i'i's (knr.itary—there is also a sick-room, in which w;ii i he invalid at present under the care of llr. "U'.-kts, (iixhunga. Tin re is also a sewing-room, an extra dining-room, .•■r.a ii lavatory especially appropriated to tho girlsi:nbt tin- .-uperintindenee of Mrs. Collis and an as«V;mt matron. Ti.-. si hool-reOm is a fine long building, the entire sn\'..'. d Ki 'T of a sepaiate building being devoted to it. -\'| : g it the desks and forms are ranted with tie ;:.",t pitcise order. The pupils are taught bv Mr. t assisted r ccasionallv by two monitors. The routine commences with a pi aver and a S-'crip--1-ss.ri. the pupils aie then taught reading, -j i-Iling. writing, and arithmetic. with geography twice a we. k. Several hours of the afternoon are dev ied to she farming operations amongst the elder j'jjils. Ihe Maori pupils are naturally very apt at uri'ii.ir.i i'e. in,d have a very good idea of geography, l'itL r f'lk'Cily able to comprehend the principles sr.- r.aa'.eii. They are all taught in the English lane inquirid what became of the Maori pupils tit»:: ieiiv;;:i; ti.o estaMi'sluner.t. and we were informed ::,.o jrjii.v letuin to their native settlements, several btv:r.:r 1 <vn trained as assistant missionaries. One ■: • we have at W],aia Whata on the A\'aiil!ii;m H.aiton to wit, and can vouch for his and i.-iir.cst endeavour to do good. Another, White of the Kaipara. was also named as having been c. :n the establishment at the " Three Kings." H;e eioth'-s for the whole of the inmates are now ir. irrea: part made in the establishment, Sirs. Collis piovick-d a Sewing-machine to assist in the Melk. .is an in-tniice of the large amount of noddle work :•)< r.<- ii rjuiird by the pupils, we may mention that 10l- artieles of clothing and bedding have been made by pupils within the last three months.