" F.G." writes : " The rate paid teacbers is oufe of proportion as compared with equal ability in other walks of life, notwithstand ing the pawky cry of wear and tear to the profession. Look at the strain night nna day to the business man to secure £300 a year upon capital sinking— as compared with a head teacher overlook jng, no doubt, with apxieby, his liev tenants doing the work, on a maximum certainty of £4Qp or mpre."

" Ex-Student" states : "lam in receipt of intelligence from a private but thoroughly reliable source of a movement

in London that will shake the fashionable world of that quarter to its foundation. My correspondent writes : ' I know how pleased you will be to hear that the Queen has ordered all bearing reins to be removed from her horses.' Only influence from the highest quarters could have brought about such a splendid result, and I think it will be found that the Duke of Portland—one of the kindest-hearted and grandest men living—is the prime mover in this affair. About-fifteen years ago, I and several others tried, by letters and articles in the fashion able papers, to draw the attention of carriage -owners to the cruelty of the rein, but we might just as well have tried to sink an ironclad with a peashooter. Our greatest opponents were the coachmen, and the reason of their opposition I shall be pleased to narrate in a future letter, with your permission. The London papers are full of letters on the subject, but the Queen's will ie law unalterable."

THE : .AUCKLAND STAR, TUESDAY, JULY 28; 1891.
