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Kumara Times, Issue 860, 3 July 1879, Page 4

Negotiations between the Russian and Chinese Governments are broken off. The news of the surrender of Eildga is contradicted.

The preaching of Pastor Chiniquy haß given rise to an extraordinary action in Massachusetts, in which a livery stable keeper named Parker is the plaintiff, and a Roman Catholic priest, Father Dufresne, is the defendant. Pastor Chiniquy, in the course of his crusades against Catholicism (writeß "Atticus" in the Leader), visited Holyoke, in Massachusetts, and by his violent denunciations against the sect to which he once belonged, drew large audiences. Father Dufresne forbade any of his congregation to listen to Chiniquy upon pain of excommunication, but the livery stable keeper, who was a member of Father Dufreßne's flock, ignored the caution, and more than once went to hear Pastor Chiniquy preach. Hearing of this Father Dufresnetold his congregation on Sunday to hire no carriages or horses from the refractory livery stable man, and threatened he would refuse communion to all those who continued to do business with him ; and the irate priest followed up his course of action by refusing to officiate at weddings and funerals at which Parker's conveyances *rere used. The result was that the lively stable man was ruined, and he brought the action, claiming 10.000 dol. as compensation for the loss he had incurred. The facts were conceded, but the defence set up was that the priest had simply exercised his right to guide his congregation. Can it be believed that the law backed up this autocratic bigotry of the dark ageß ? Yet such is the fact. The judge decided that Parker's flitting about from one church to another was deserving of censure, and directed the jury to find a verdict for the defendant.

A large hauling machine has just been commenced by Messrs Kiucald and for the Oamara harbor w rks. Large trucks loaded with bl cks of coricr te, &nd smaller trucks loaded with cement, are required to be raised and deposited with great expedition ; and the object of the machine now being constructed is to affect both these ends. It is capable of not only raising heavy and light tracks, bift also of being used as a pile-driver. The concrete blocks, which weigh from 25 to 30 tons, are raised by means of an endless chain, drawing up the fall tracks on one side and taking them down empty on the <ther. The trucks of cement are worked in a similar manner, but with a ro. e. This machine, whilst it jts necessarily a complicated one, pives promise of being moat effective. It will take something like thiee weeks to complete it.