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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 417, 12 May 1871, Page 2

We are sure that it is unnecessary to remind our readers of the annual meeting of the friends and supporters of the Auxiliary to the British and Foreign Biole Society. It will take place this evening at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, and from the highly interesting statistics and general information invariably submitted at such meetings, respecting the progress and position of the Society, we do not doubt that there will be a very large attendance. Archdeacon Maunsell will occupy the chair. We -would draw the attention of those whom it may concern to the exceedingly discreditable piece of road leading from Princesstreet to the Drill-shed. .Every difficulty should be removed out of the way of the Volunteer movement, and really the " path of duty" to the Volunteers is "not an easy one, especially in net weather, and on a dark night. The Eev. Wm. Braden, minister of the Hill House Congegational Chapel at f. uddersfield, has been appointed successor to the Rev. Thomas Binney at the King's Wei^u House Oh pel. Mr. Binney, who has for upwards of forty years been the most eminent, minister of the .Nonconformists in London, preached his farewell sermon last Sunday, February 5. On Thursday, February 16, at 9.8 p.m., a London establishment received a message which had been sent, via Teheran, from Kurrachee, India, on Friday morning at 12.43 a.m. The message was therefore received in London the day before it was sent from India. Che time actually occupied by the message in transmission was fifty minutes ; the sun would require four hours and twenty-six minutes to do the same distance, and as the message was sent so soon after midnight, the extraordinary effect is produced of its arriving the previous evening.— Home News. A barbarous murder was committed at Barton-under-Needwood, by v man named Beach, a blacksmith, the victim being his child, a baby thirteen months old. The poor infant (a boy) was standing near the fire guard, when the prisoner took an" axe and clove the skull of the child quite through. The blade of the axe was covered with blood and hair. The prisoner does not seem to understand his awful position, and it is stated that of late his conduct has been very stranee. — Borne News. ■ a During the collection after evening service at the Windsor parish church on Feb. 5, a pair of gold earrings were given towards the "Church Eenovation Fund." They were wrapt in paper, with the text, Exodus xxxv 22.