Parents whose children attend school at intermittent periods might find it useful to paste tha following m their hats for reference:— * When aay child required by this Act to attead a public school has been enrolled m a register of a public school, and being m good health, does not attend afa least six times m any week m the course of which the school is open nine times, the parent of scch child shall be liable to a penalty of 2s for every such week m which such child shall have attended less than six times; provided that proceedings for the recovery of any penalty incurred by reason of insufficient attendance during any part of any month cannot be instituted except during that mqnth or during the next following mqnth.'

The huge fortune of the late Mr Hugh M'Oalmont, which for seven years has been accumulating at compound interest, ia about to pass into the sols control of the heir 7" H*ri7 LesUe Blandell M'Calmok the we^WW} owner of Isinglass. The amount is believd to be notmuch, flat all, less than £4,000,000 sterling, and the bulk of this enormous sum was accumulated by the testator whilst $ member of the once prominent firmGfM'oalG*on£Bro'.hers, Iha^ firm, together with Messrs J?eabody and Co., were the pione.ers m introducing Ajjijer jean railroad Becurities upon the London market, and they wers for many years very closely connected with that now iiope'essly bankrupt company—the Phila delphia awd Reading. Rumor has it that the amount to winch Mr M '.Calmcnt will succeed is greater than fchat aifc^he absolute disposal of any other single person £n this, country, and this Is not improbable. Of course (aays the Westminster) larger * mounts are owned by some of the great city .magiwt#S, but probably m most cases their wealth is i»ot entirely unfettered ; it is either aub|ect to heavy charge?, or else ia invested m business from which it could not easily be disen^ gaged. For sGfi&e time past the Agricutural Department jias b^jen devoting attention to tihe introduction .ol the humble bee into New South Vales from New j^aaland, where jt has been successfully acclima tised $.fter &?uch trouble and expense. The value of ih® humble bee (says a Sydney paper) lies ia fche fact that it is the only insect which readily fertilises red clover and enables ib to Peed freely. 