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Evening Star, Issue 3292, 8 September 1873, Page 2

Upwards of 25,000 shares in theJNational Insurance Company has been applied for in Christchurch. At the bankruptcy sitting to day, Seymour Harris Saunders and Launcelot Booth received final orders of discharge. The burgesses of Wellington are evidently fond of large joints of beef, as one of the local butcher- lately exhibited the carcasses of seven fine bullocks which, when dressed, averaged 1,2001b5. each. His Honor the Superintendent telegraphs to the Municipal Council of Naseby that the General Government have agreed to extend the telegraph from Naseby to Alexandra.

Some larrikins bent on mischief on Saturday night sot fire to the lawyer-bush which skirts the Forbury Road on either side. Before it had well caught it was discovered by a man living in the neighborhood, who, with the assistance of a bucket and a stream of water which runs close by, put it out in a very short time. Had it not been observed so early the flames, doubtless, would have spread to some newly erected houses within a very few yards of the fire. A large audience assembled at the Queen’s Theatre on Saturday evening. “ The Palace of Truth” was played with undimiuished success, and at the termination of the piece, in response to an unanimous call, the curtain was raised, and the performers bowed their acknowledgments. The farce of “ the Quiet Family ” concluded the entertainment, and proved a signal success —so much so, that it will be repeated to-night instead of “ A Fast Train,” which was announced to be played. The most astonishing newspaper venture we ever heard of i* shadowed forth by the Belfast Northern Whig of June 24, which says In preparation for the coming political struggle, a new daily London newspaper is announced, at an altogether unprecedented low price. It is to he called the Country Daily Neivspaper, and its special object will bo to supply the rural districts with a daily paper of Conservative principles, at such a. price that every one above the status of a pauper will be able to take it in. The price will be a penny per week for a paper every day, or a farthing for a single copy- The news will be given in very short pithy paragraphs ; the leaders will be what journalists call “paragraph” leaders, and the sheet, which will consist of four pages of two columns each, will be as compact as “nonpareil” typo can make it. It is intended to sot the paper by means of Mr Mackie’s patent steam typo composer, which, so far bb human labor is required at all, will be worked by girls.

The Mornington Band of Hope Committee held a meeting in the house of Mr D. Nicol, William street, on Saturday evening, to receive the resignation of their secretary, Mr W. H. Mathieson, and also to present him with a small token of esteem for the labor of love he has been engaged in for the last two years. After some very earnest remarks by Mr Hardy, president of the society, and by m,embers of committee, they presented Mr Mathieson a fiaiidsome pocket Bible, urging him to follow its teaching, and to use his endeavors, as fie hijbh'ejrto had dope while in connection with the society, to further the cause of temperance to the utmost of his ability. Mr Mathieson replied by thanking the Committee fog their present, and their kindness to him on ajil occasions. apfi stated that )m would stapd firm in the path of temperance, and use fiis endeavors on pll occasions to forward jts interests. After partaking of the refreshments kindfy spread by Mr and Mra Niool, Mr Thomas Morris, of Woodhead, was elected Secretary to the Society.

Mr Smythies’s work “Education of Man” is referred to in the Home News in those terms“ There is some difficulty in believing that the author of this absurd little volume can be in the possession of his senses, hie object being to show that men’s bodies have K.esa cheated to become a receptacle for the spirits of fallen angels, who are placed in this world’ for the purpose of education, to fit them for their restoration to their first estate. He meets our first objection to considering ourselves devils by telling us that there are devils and devils, and that though some of them—the devils proper—have no doubt lost all hope, it is not clear that all have, and in that case ‘ a spirit of Way’s creation,’ ‘born in sin,’ deserving y/.redff and damnation,’ demands no preference ovef a aoir.’t which has existed through eternity, ahd Was m in heaven, but Jest it by dispoedienAfe, wr ,lp at Paradise.' He also feels pretty certain that negroes have no souls, though slavery Had not been abolished ha would. have been afraid to say so. His friends should realty keep an eye upon him.”

TJ]P attention of Volunteers is directed to a in our advertising columns. The monthly united prayer meeting will be held this cvenjhg,-at Siali-i-aat seven, in the North Dunedin Church (Rot? *)' The members of the Otteo will meet at the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening, at 7.30, to be present at the installation of officers of the Lodge Otago.

At tho fortnightly meeting of the Dunedin Mutusii Improvement Society, to be hold tomorrow (Tuesday) (evening, Mr A. H, Logan will road an cssiyontynluua/asm,’ From an advortisoincilt in another OyfhW l ? it will be' seen thAt a petition fronl the citizens (if Dunedin to the House of Representatives, the proposal to erect the railway workshops at Ray» may bo MS I }®}'- at tb< ? Council Ohatnbprs), fryl fjjiit tho citizens will bo waited 911 for signatures The Cood Intent Lodge, T.0.Q.T., >vidf hyW atpuAipl public ijUoeting under tho patronage of the Daughtpys /mi} Sons of Temperance, apd tho Good Templar LodgSS of Dunedin find Linden, in the drill-shed, Caversham, o» Friday

evening next, ; .at'\ialf-past six* The public meeting will be addressed by several well known advocates of the temperance movement.