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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7271, 9 March 1885, Page 5

A largo tire has. been burning on the east side of the',island, opposite Whangaparapara Harbour* ;ior several weeks, A large amount of valuable kauri is being destroyed, and .ther'3i;iß^iio.'',telling where the fire will jstop.—'tiL respondent, February 26.] • Education.—Whatever views may be held relative to the question of religious instruction in our public schools, there is never any question of the importance of a universal and thorough ''grounding in secular subjects, ' The ' man who cannot read or write in these days is .out of the race of life, and, except in the case of extraordinary natural force, will remain behind for the whole of his natural life. This belief is now so general that it need not further be discussed; our only duty now being to make the system of instruction as perfect as possible. It is in this regard that we join our voices with those who are asking for greater attention to the study "of natural science, and we would especially refer to that much neglected science—physiology and anatomy— construction of the human body. No education can be considered complete that does not provide for an intelligible conception of the position, structure, and functions of , the great vital organs, the commoner diseases to which they are subject;, with the remedies, and a knowledge of the nutritive qualities of different kinds of foods. We are aware that no complete knowledge of these things can be communicated in the short period of a school course, but it is absurd to pretend that, whilst boys and girls can be turned out with a fair smattering of languages and . mathematics, they cannot also be taught* the functions of liver, stomach, heart, brain, etc., together with the causes which produce and the -symptoms which indicate derangement. How many a man for instance, goes around in a state of settled melancholy, moping and growling,' because he doesn't know that he has a liver, and that by diet and Hamburg Tea he may be restored to cheerfulness ? But ten times worse is the case of a man who tosses for years racked with torture from sprained tissues, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc., when thousands of testimonials from known persons are forthcoming to show that his nuffering may bo permanently banished by the use of St. Jacob's Oil. ' Y Ask fifty ladies in succession what perfume they consider the most delicate,.and most pure and salubrious, the most permanent, and in all respects the most desirable, and forty-nine.of them will answer, Murray .and Lsnman's Florida Water. »