The other day I met a New Zealand colonist, who complains, and I think very justly, of the faulty construction of your registration laws. He told me that oiie of his children had been born in New Zealand three or four weeks before he sailed from the colony, and in the hurry of departure lie neglected to have it registered. The matter occurred to his memory after he had been some little time settled in England, and he wrote out r : nnni.ro i- he could have the birth of the child registered. He was answered that he could not, but that he could be fined heavily for the omission notwithstanding. Anything more mon strously ridiculous one can hardly conceive, and I can only suppose that the omission of a proper provision for such cases has been inadvertent. In England ncltct of registration is visited by a fine, but when the" fine is paid the parent makes a simple affidavit and the child is registered The sooner your law is amended, and the amendment made retrospective, the better ; since the injury done to a child by absence of registration may be very great. In England it is necessary to produce evidence of birth of this kind on most legal occasions, and in all applications for Government services. Don't you think one of your Auckland members might carry out this little suggestion, which after all is only common justice ?

THE HIGH CHURCH ROWS

We are still exercised on High Church questions. The confessional box keeps Avell to the fore, and the bishops must feel awfully worried by the constant deputations and so on which pester them on this and kindred questions. The country is very j determined on the confession question, and I don't think we need be under any appre hension of the practice making much head way, whatever the heads of the Church may do or think. Since the little knot of Oxford men headed by Pusey and Co., started the High Church movement, there has been no one of note; connected with the very advanced part}*. Talking of the Church, I suppose the "Guardian" ought to be able ito set everybody right on matters of i ecclesiastical etiquette. 