MILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. THE NEW CHAIR IN THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5276, 18 January 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

MILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

THE NEW CHAIR IN THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

The regular meeting of the Borough Council of Milton was held in the Council Chambers, Milton, on Wednesday evening last. Present; Mr R. R. Jones (Mayor), Crs Stanbrook, Cunningliame, Lano, Bastings, and Stewart.

The minutes of previous mooting were read and confirmed, and a report as to the woik dona since last meeting waa approved. - The following resolutions were carried:—Moved by Cr Staxbkook, and eeooadoi' by Cr - " Tba't Arthur street bo f ormedandgravel.ed f coin main road to Manor street; and that Jura street, from Ajax street to Elder!.e.street,, be formed, and that the surveyor prepare plana and specifications forthwith."—Moved by Cr Lakh, and seconded by Cr Hastings—" That plans bo prepared and tenders called for gravelling footpaths in Dryden street."

Cr Cunhikgha.*ib drew tho attention of the Counoil to the fact that Mr Knight waa plicdy a fence across Johnston aaid Abercrom'oio streets.

The Mayor said that up to tho present time the street had not beou dedicated by the owner, that the streets are not at present required, and that the land is In the same position as M Gill's, /and near tlio railway station, although there are. ro.da shown ou the planß deposited.

Cr Stewart wt\s of opinion th,"-roads should be opened up, and it wss the duty of. the Council to see that tliey wero. Tlio O anno I should have pos.-os-si'in of the streets, anl the powor to open them at anytime.

Cr Stanbuook tendered his resi-ru.tion as Councillor for Weat IVard, oa account tf hia learing far JSngland.

It wis moved byCr Stewart, and secondol hy Cr Bastin_s—"That the resignation be aooepced," and regret was expressed tint the Council 3hould so soon lose the services of Mr Staubro.ak. - It was also resolved that slena bo at oeieo taken to elect anothor Councillor for West Ward.

According to tho new railway tariff just gazetted, the rates for agricultural produce, i.e., wheat, barley, oata, 05c, will be— For distauces of not more than 50 miles, 2Jd per tori per mile ; more thau 0.0 miles, and not more thau 75. miles, l-_d per tojn per mile ,* more than 75 miles, Id per ton per mile. For wool the rates are to be —For distances not more than SO miles, undumped, ld; double-dumped, lsd per bale per "mile; more than 30, and not more than 10Q. miles, and }d per bale per mile ; mora than 100 miles, l^d and rp per bale per mile. For undumped bales bt more thin 4 cwt, and double-dumped bales of more thau 8 cwt, id per bale per sniio to be added to the above rates, AU loading and unloading must ba dona by, the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the Railway Department, 3d per b&lo for undumped, ai~,J 6d per bale for donblc. dumped, wUI be charged.

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THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. TO THE EDITOR,

Sin,—Are the advocates of Bible-reading ia schools aware that a reviaioa of the authorised version of the Scriptures has been in progress for some years past, and is now nearly-con-cluded, and that many passages which have been the bases of vast edifices of theological controversy havo been rejected in this revision as interpolations and erroneous?- Dr Copland ought lo know something about this, and it can - ■ scarcely bo supponed that oven he wilf contend for the plenary inspiration of the existing translation. I hi. circumstance lends great force to Mr Stout's question—of what edition should be used. Although I have never been a, teacher, ' I can, from experience and observation of Bible-reading in schools, bear full testimony te its absolute futility as a means of religious - education, send, independently of other objections, can only look upon its use as a school- - book as tending in the opposito direction .to what Dr Copland and hia followers desire. School children as a body will inevitably treat the book with anything but reverence, as an inspection of school Bibles in any school in - which it is used will show. Their minds are, as a rule, not sufficiently developed to understand its teachings, and the time taken up in Bible-reading could be far more effectively used in any other ordinary study. Mahomniedans use the Koran as their only schoolbook: what does Dr Copland, "who knows something about them, think of the results?— lam, &c,

„„,', , Anti-Fetich. 16fch January, 1879.

TO THE EDITOR.