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Dunstan Times, Issue 695, 13 August 1875, Page 4

A captain in the navy, on meeting a friend as he landed, boasted that he had left his whole ship’s company the happiest fellows in the world. ‘ How so T asked his friend, * Why I have just flogged seventeen, and they are happy it is over ; ami all the rest are happy that they have escaped.’ Mr Spurgeon thus responds to a request of a Boston lecture bureau that he should visit that country :—“ It is impossible for me to leave my work, except for a short interval of rest. I have no one to occupy my pulpit, preside over my church, look after the college, govern the orphanage, superintend the colporteurs, edit the magazine I must keep my hand on the oar till I die. I see no hope of my visiting America, much as I would like to meet the brethern there. Compensation is not an item of consideration. Nothing indeed could compensate my conscience if I left my work and harm come of it. I know within a little what I can do, and I feel that I cannot conscientiously attempt a work in America to which 1 am not called, to the injury of that which now engrosses all my time and eveiy faculty I possess ” On August 3, the younger brother of Pizzey and Co., brewers, Hokitika, committed suicide. The body was found in an office adjoining the brewery with a pistol shot through the head. No writing has been discovered to show that the deed was premeditated. The pistol shot was heard in the adjoining premises. The deceased had not been drinking, but was sober and industiious during bis two years’ residence here. He was much respected.