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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 2

The Rinking Club brought its season to a close last evening. There was n large attendance of rinkers and spectators, the stage aad gallery being well filled by the latter. The fuii was kept up till a late hour, when those present dispersed, well 1 satisfied with , the, evenings entertainment. It is a matter for congratulation that whilst the Kinking Cfub has bsen so well patronised during the season just ended, not a single accident has occurred. Prof. Max Muller says: —National education is national duty. To leave national education to chance, church, or charity, is a national sin. The King's and Queen's College of Physicians ia .Ireland have juat granted diplomas in medicine and midwifery to three unmarried young women. On Whit-Tuesday Routledge & Son received a copy of " Other People's Childron," a .sequel to Helen's Babies, and on the following Friday the book was re-printed, bound, and 4,000 copies sold. The latest device for whipping the devil rouud the stump, in New York, where pool is prohibited, is to sell photographs of the horses in a race, prices varying from ss. to £20. On an average, more than 73,000 persons are taken into custody by the London police every year. More than one-third of all the crime committed in England is committed in London. The Victorian public is invited once more to increase the enormous range of buildings which it provides for tho insane. Fifty-two vessels, of 28,000 tons aggregate measurement, havo been posted at Lloyd's as missing in the first four months of the present year. Eight months,ago the name of "Henry Greville" was utterly unknown' in Paris; today all tho great journals of France fight for the possession of the briefest article from her pen. The New Zealaud Institute has now a membership of 25 .honorary and 1,030 ordinary members, the last comprised ia seven affiliated Societies. The Canterbury Philosophical Institute, which is one of thera^ ha<s a membership of only 95,- while the Auckland, Wellington, and Otngo affiliated Societies have a membership of 285,224, and 231 respectively. The annual report on the goldfields of New Zealand has this year been compiled by Dr. Giles, the Undersecretary in the Lands Department. It is a mere compilation, containing tho usual wardens' reports, and some valuable statistical information. The report of the Beetroot Sugar Committee recommends that, in order to encourage this iudustry in New Zealand, a guarantee should be given by the Governmeut of freedom from any excise duty to be levied thereon for a period of ten years from the present time, and that tho Customs duty should remain as at present.on all imported sugar during tho same period.

One of our exchanges says : "We wish to have it emphatically understood that persons wanting their death notices pnblished in this journal, mast hand them in early on Tuesday morning, accompanied with one dollar." An enthusiastic reporter, vvriling about the celebration of tho. Buuker Hill Centennial, said : " The American forces had the best soldiers in the world* opposed to thorn, tho veterans of sVVellington's Peninsula canipuigus and Waterloo!"