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Colonist, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4171, 22 June 1885, Page 3

The first of a series of papers relating to the development of Colonial industries presented to Parliament .; contains several letters from various correspondents addressed to Sir Julius Vogel on the subject of fisheries. Mr J. Mackenzie, writing from Port Chalmers, gives the results of his ■<: researches on many parts of the coast on fish proper for tinning. Messrs ; Thomson Brothers, of Port Chalmers;* make suggestions respecting the traffic in oysers. Mr -Rutland, Banger of Crown Lands, furnishes a report on the fisheries in Pelorus and Queen1 Charlotte Sounds and Port Underwood. , , The concluding paper is.Pr^ecto^g report respecting the distribution and Character of the food fishes of New . Zealand. . "". AJ papeb has been laid before Parliament on the subject of proposed revi-^ sion of regulations under the Education Act. Last January, at a meeting of ; the New Zealand Educational Institute, held in Auckland, a number of resolutions were passed, relating to the syllabus of instruction in public ' schools, the presentation in the standards1, the pupil teacher system, teachers' certificates and examinations, scholarship examinations, &c; Various alterations and amendments were suggested. The resolutionb were commented on by the Inspector-Genoral of Schools, and copies of them were sent to all the District Inspectors. The paper contains their reports on the, various points submitted to them for- < ■. an expression 01 their opinion. < Most of the points, though no doubt of importance, are somewhat technical, relating 'to. the details of the school./ masters' and school inspectors' calling. —' Kew Zealand Times. 1 A ;Wir>ow lady residing in Cork supports herself and her household by teaching navigation to sailor lada. Many of them come from Liverpool for the benefit of her instruction, and. r a large; number of successful oiandi- | dates pass out of her hands. Manganese mining pfomiseatabdn to i ' be an established aadr profitable industry at the Bay'-'drislatids;""Cap-tain Phillips so we,llJinowpJn,connec- tltion with the Manganese[mmes, Russell ,has'reaently,(says .the • L,uminaryj)-, at ■. i leasedfor ten years the-block of land known ,$$ CaUfp^nia, ;situatedrabput; 6- m / miles from Kawakaw,a, ottothe JBuapekapeka road. The^land-aboundi with ;mangaßeße lodes') and; i;'] Captain Phillips proposes to commence work at-once. The mineral "jrill be carted into Kawakawa, and thenoe shipped to Auckland from the railway,, thus affording labpr for a' number, of extra hands here, and iurther freight for the railway. The royalty, we learn, is, to be Is per ton. We wish the new venture every saMttt.