TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 96, 12 September 1871, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

PER CREVIIITS TELEGRAM G3MPASY, REUTER'S AGENTS. CARPENTER RELEASED FROM CUSTODY. TRIAL OF R3ICHELDT STILL PROCEEDING. A PANIC AMONG THE DRAPER?. PROCEEDINGS IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SUICIDE OF MRS BUCK L AND. A month’s YIELD FROM THE THAMES REEFS. BISHOP MORAN AT WELLINGTON. DUNEDIN, Tuesday, T0.5 a.m. . The Grand Jury threw out the bills against Thomas Carpenter, charged with stealing amalgam at the Garrick Range, and Russell, charged with arson, at Tokomairiro. The lawyers’ addresses in Reichelt’s case occupied the whole of yesterday. Smith spoke for four hours. The Judge is summing up now. Soft-goods men fear increased duty on drapery. There were heavy clearances yes. terday. The Education Bill is to bo considered in Committee on Thursday, when .Mr Fox intimates his intention of having an amendment prepared. The majority of the members are in favour of aided schools. The Government will telegraph tire Financial Statement to all papers free. The position of the Ministry is critical, owing to disorganisation of parties. The Joshua Bates, with 300 Chinese fop Otago, put in at Auckland, having sprung a leak. Mr Williamson has been re-elected to the Assembly for Auckland. Mrs Buckland, wife of tho member for Franklin, committed suicide by stabbing herself with a pair of scissors, while m a state of temporary insanity. It is understood that the San Francisco steamers will discontinue coasting voyages. Thfc month’s yield from tho Thames mines wareß,6soozs from 690 tons of stone (?). Caledonians are still rising, despite adverse newspaper reports. The sentence of Macdonald, the M'angajuu murderer, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. Dr Moran addressed large audiences at Wellington bn Education. ■ • A meeting has been called at Christchurch in favour of Mr Macnadr jw'u resolutions.

Church Sleeping.— O’er their devoted heads, while the law thundered, snugly and heedlessly snored the Six Hundred. Great was the preacher’s theme, screwed 'on' Was all the steam—neither shout nor scroim coyld disturb the dream of the sleeping Six Hundred. Terrors to the right of them, terrors to the left of them, terrors, in front of them; hell itself plundered of its most awful things -the weak-minded preacher flings. Kindly he spoke, and well: all on deaf ears it fell—vain was his.loudeat yell, vollleyed and thundered ; for caring (the truth to tell) neither for heaven nor hell, snored the Six HuhIred. Still, with redoubled zeal, he spoke outward ; and in his wild appeal, striking with hand and heel—-making the pulpit reel, shaken and sundered. He- called them; the .Church’s foes, and threatened t,hom with, endless woes ; faintly the answer rose (proof qf.their sweet ret pose) from the "united nose of the Six Hun# dred. -• ■ - • ’ ■ : PrMAle. SocIeTT. —All men .who *voi«f female society have anil perceptions, and arS stupid, havagrosk tastes, and revolt kgafuafc wha£ is puro. * Your cluVawaggerers,:Whoara'»uokinj£ the butt-end of'bilKard cues all night-, coll femal£ society insipid, Poetry is uninspiring to a Yukel f beauty has no charms for a blind man ; musief does not please a poor beast who does not kno one tune from another ; 'hut as a true epicure is'never tired of water, sauce, and brown bread and butter, I protest 1 can sit for a whole night talking to a well-regulated, kindly woman about her girl Fanny, or her boy Frank, and like the evening’s entertainment. One of the great-bene-fits a man may derive from a woman’s society is that he is bound to be respectful to her. The habit is of groat good to your morals, men, depend upon it. Our education m ikes us the most eminently selfish men in tho world, and the greatest benefit th it comes to a man from woman’s society is that he has to think'of somebody to whom be is b mad to be constantly at tentive and respectful. There are registered in the United States, says a San Francisco paper, 393 grain distilleries, having a capacity for using 193,233 bushels of grain a diy, yielding 070,931 gals, of spirits. The total quantity pf distilled spirits in the country on the 15th November last was 45,092,534 gallons— sufficient to float more ships of war than we own, or are likely to own, for some time to come, and drown all our naval forces into the bargain.