'. Tho weekly meetiug of the Benevolent: Insti tuliou Trustees, held yesterday, was attended > by Messrs Solomou J(ehairnian), Isaac, Greeu, Hayues, Carroll. j accounts. Accouuts amounting to £451 4s lOd were 1 passed for payineut. j BOOTLESS CHILDREN. f The Ckaihman paid last week there was a f discussion with reference to children not being 1 permitted to attend the State schools without boots. Since then a member of tho Education r Board wrote to the trustees to say that there was no such regulation, aud now they h?.d a 3 letter from Mr Hatnann, which was as fol r lows: — 1 Permit me to address you on behalf of poor cliil -1 ilren who have to go to school without boots. There may be no official orders excluding sueli children from school, but you as a gentleman of philnnMiropic 5 ideas will no doubt have pity on such poor children. ; Suppose they go to school bootless and poorly clad, 2 would not their young minds feel sorry if they uom ' pare their appearance with that of other children, and would such others not sneer at them to their >' hearts' grief? 1 know my own youngsters take great pride in being uieely dressed for school. r It appears to me to be a similar case. to the churches. You Hud there ss-nt-i marked as It'reo for the poor. I have seen these scats F alwayß empty, and I suppose for the simple reason '■ that people actually poor don't like to parade their ' poverty. May I therefore suggest, that in deserving ) eases, which would be for the trustees to decide, boots may be supplied to poor children for attending school. It is their feelings that have to be con sulted in this case." t Mr Cauroll deferred to the matter of the letter as being " stuff and nonsense," and the letter was simply received. ' SUBSIDT. I A communication was received from Welling ton iutitnating that £216 19s 5d had been paid , into the bank to the credit of the institution ou I account of subsidy. ! APPLICATION'S FOR RELIEF. p A number of applications for relief were dealt ] with. To Ovbhcomh 'iVkak.nhsS.—Pepper's Quinine s ami Iron Tonic givew new life, appetite, health t, stru'.'gUi, :\\i\ ent-'r ' "mvs nervous deWli-'y, c inOogyslion, ami c algia. Hall'-crowu bottle's. 