MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 94, 12 November 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The noondsiy prayer meetings, which, irere opened by Dx Sqmerville in th« Assembly Hall, Melbourne, hare (says a Victorian exchange.) so increased in in* fcrest that the building has b,ecomo tog smiill to hold the numbers vr\\o flocked f »ere, and Collius»streefc Independent Ohurcb, has not been found inu.nu tog large. Mr If. Varley lias presided eacli cluy, and at twelve o'clock punctually streams of people, cliit-% ladies, but. witli a lar^e proportion of men of all elusso^ have been seen directing thru* steps to tbu church, Krery night, also, at hnlf-past seven the building has bern crowded by those who were desirous of hearing Aif Varley. The movement (writes the Telegraph] is altojetlier unprecedented iv thq pejigious \Tor|t| of V^ 01 ™' au^ ' s . we^ worth, attentive cousideratfen a^nd discu-*---sion. Jjjr Sonjervjllp is v now preaching with equal success in Sydney, and is -lima described by a correspondent . — IV SomeiTille, thoqgh orer sereuty years old, is still in the possession of a fino clear roice, and much vigor of frame* His discourses, vriiieli are simple, but very eloquent, are deliyored '" a rer J fervent and itqpres^ire style. His benign countenance, and silvery looks which float about his neck, give him the appearance of a divine of byfioae days. Dr Somervitle has come all tho way from, Scotland to stir up. &c 4ifferet^t Coloniesto a deeper sense of the importance of religious matters. His mission is purely one Qf love, for bo will not cecept auy remuneration whatever, either in money or a its representatives." W The South Canterbury Times gives the following instance of diabolical cru/slty tq animals :—" Wo are imbruied that a du^ graceful and revolting case of cruelty to animals recently tQblc place at TemukaIt appears that a person, residing in that district, finding that oue of his horses had been horned by a cow (his own property), proceeded to rope the cqw up the stockyard post, and poked it on the. head with a manuka rail with all U.i«i might; non, , being, however satisfied with tl^is step in cruelty ho obtained a lot of stones, hitting the cow on the head uqtil he knocked ona of its eyes out, and whipped, it fa such at extent tkat after the covr died. We might remark that it was, within two months of calviug. He then maimed another cow, and afterwards bis brutal feelings beiug doubtless satisfied, he left off," If tlio indivi lual who was guilty of so brutal at; act were to be poked on the head with a, manuka pole, and then have an eye pelted out, it would be no more than he thorough.*, ly Reserves.