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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 4, 24 October 1890, Page 5

Read—.[al>VT.] Lord Justice Naish died on Sdnday night August 17, at Ems. In 1885 and 1886 Lord Justice Naish, was Lord Chancellor of Ireland, tie was the second t'a-bolic Lord Ct ancellor, the late Lord O'Hagan having been the first. Within five years he became Queen's Counsellor, Law Adviser to the Irish Government, Attorney-General, Lord Chancellor, ex.Lord Chancellor, »nd Lord Justice of Appeal. The first great case with which he was anyway prominently connected was the ecclesiastical cause celebre of O'Keefe versus CulleD, which occasioned such a sensation at ihe time. From inquiries I (Truth) have been making, 1 find that it is now the custom for the Pieliminary Examinations for (he Army to be he'd at Eton. Harrow, and other so-called " Public Schools." The modvs operandi is this .—The examination p.pers are sent to the schools. The masters give them ou , itnd keep such check as they think proper over the competitors. The written answers are in due cours« returned to the examiners. One of the results of this convenient arrangement is that a ll pluck " for dictation—previously a common occunence—ia n>w almost v .known, as will be readily believed by any one who understands the enormous advantage which it is to the boys to have the dictation read by one with whose delivery they are familiar. Tuc obvious mteuti n ani effect of the whole scheme is to grossly favour the public schojls. Ir is, ia fact, one more of the ays ematic eff irts of our Tory masters to deliver the children of the classes from the fatal effects—fatal, that is, to them —of competitive examination.