Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 11 February 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

« Sir Edw 'i Arnold expresses his contempt for " fussy " people who cannot write unless surrounded with everything to their hand, and explains that his last great work was the natural logical sequence of his former books. "My idea," he observes, has been briefly this : The great religions of the world, are no mutual enemies, but own sisters ; or you may call them the facets of a diamond which reflect different rays of the same light. I have written these books of mine "which find their natural crown and finish in " the \ Light of the World " to bring out in each great religion its distinctive ray —what it especially reflects. By and by critics will find the thing out and- understand how logical I have been and how clear the plan was I have shown— how each great faith contributes a special color to the philosophical spectrum which makesthe white light of truth. The Longburn Meat Freezing Company have at their works a sheep which is trained to lead other sheep into the slaughter house. During a recent visit, Mrs H. M. Stanley bestowed the very approriate name of " Judas " upon it. \ The Pall Mall Budget says: — for the coming year, the Council of the Art Union of London commissioned Mr W. Wyllie, A.R.A., to produce an original etching representing the oscape of H.M S. Calliope from Apia Harbour, Samoa, on 16fch of March, 1889. This work com- j memorates . an episode that appeals to the patriotism of English speaking people throughout the world, for the escape of the Calliope was the occasion for a display of a splendid seamenship and indomitable pluck, worthy of the best traditlolifc of the British Navy. The terrible liurricane which . visited the islaria'of Samoa two I jjtears ago swept warships of three nations to destruction, and the only vessel that escaped from the harbour of Apia in that storm was Her Majesty's ship Calliope, a cruiser, commanded by Captain H. C. Kane. At the very height of the storm, when one cable had parted, and the ship was dragging towards the reef, the Calliope slipped her remaining cable and stood boldly out to sea, steaming full steam ahead in the midst of the hurricane, and,, by consummate skill in handling, she just cleared the American ship Trenton, which was dragging down to her destruction, and escaped into the open sea through the narrow mouth of the harbour. The moment chosen by the artist is when the Calliope was just passing the Trenton, whose crew, headed by their admiral, gave her three hearty cheers as she passed. The sympathetic and skilful treatment oi the subject by Mr Wyllie is worthy of his great reputation, and the Council believe that this etching should be one of the most popular fork's they have published.