The chairman of the. Board of Education has stood firm under the pressure brought to bear upon him. Tbe board has now got to the eighth teacher, in turn, without being aide to shift one, but it has at last made a stand, and, despite a medical certificate, the protests of tho local bodies, the representa tions of the school committee, and the private appeals o[ friends, who said the lady had an " absolute loathing" oe country life, she has been ordered to lurahse at Babylon (Kai para). It was pointed out at the board that the lady would be within three miles of a railway station, and on tho Saturday after noon could come in by rail to Auckland and hear "lolanthe." This is what is called carrying on "the heroic work of colonisa tion"." It seems the owners o£ the hotels closed by the recent decision of one of the licensing committees intend to make one last struggle for their vested rights by taking their case to the Court of Appeal. As a, further aid in the same direction, copies of petitions are to be transmitted for signature to all parts of tbe colony, praying the Legislature to amend the Licensing Act so as to denude the commit tees of their present power oc closing hotels on their own motion. In the Board of Edu cation the fight over temperance instruction in the public schools is likely to be renewed. The opponents of such instruction have suc ceeded in abolishing; the rule which made it compulsory in schools. Now the school in spectors go a step further and recommend that the permissive power to school commit tees in that respect be withdrawn. The re sult is a fresh protest to the board against this fresh departure, and the whole battle is likely to be fought over again. A singular case, as showing the intricacy of the licens , ing laws, is at present attracting public at i tention—namely, that of the City. Club. The old hotel is being pulled down with a view to the erection of a new edifice.. It is alleged that through some.oversight "the license is liable to forfeiture," while other equally positive legal authorities state that "it is between heaven and earth," like Mahomet's coffin. 