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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 462, 24 December 1880, Page 3

Says Frank Fudge :—Eureka! he is found, and there is rejoicing among the angels. One good newspaper editor has been discovered and there is a slight ray of hope for the redemption of ink-slingers in general, for if the reclaimed scribe is possessed ef the least spark of that esprit de corps which binds journalists together, he will not fail to intercede for his hardened and sinful brethren of the press. From an American exchange I learn that: " General Haskett, of the " Salvation Army," said the other day in St. Louis, that there was one good man who was an editor, for in Casey County, 11., George W. Ashton, editor of the Clarion, had been converted to God, the first instance in the history of Christianity." This is cheering news, and I should not mind making one to get up a sebscription in order to induce General Haskett and his " Salvation Army" to make a forced march through New Zealand.

Albert Grey shot and killed Wm. Young in Dallos, Texas, because William would persist in using profane language after Albert had remonstrated with him for doing so. Albert, the telegraph informs us, is " a recent convert to Christianity," and that's why he could not tolerate bad language. Texas Christianity must be a little worse than Texas paganism if that is the way it generally works on its subjects. The unregenerateel Texan rarely kills his man in cold blood for any offence less serious than a refusal to drink, or a difference in politics. It is a pity that missionaries should have any success in Texas if it only adds another to the many causes of justifiable homicide of which SouthWestern jurisprudence boasts.