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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 939, 1 November 1879, Page 2

The Nelson boys, it seems, are not the only ones who take a profound interest m politics. The Auckland Star is responsible for the following : — A gentleman living m one of our aristocratic suburbs is m the habit of riding home sightly on a tine-looking dark horse. The other evening while turning up the Mount Eden road froni Kyber Paaa he rode past a small squadron of living school boys. Sdd No. 1, "Ah ! There's a jolly fine horse, now." "Yes !" retorted No. 2, " And ain't there a jolly biij land-shark on the top of him 1" This political sally reached the ears of the gentlemen on the " jolly fine horse." and he went home filled with melancholy meditations on the spread of Sir George Grey's teachings, and lamenting that innocent school children should manifest a prejudice against a man simply because he was a large landowner.

Mrs Britten, m her work upon " The Faiths, Facts, and Frauds of Religioiiß History," says that the civilisation of Hindostan ascends into the higher periods pf antiquity than of any historic nation.