LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 302, 23 November 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'- TlirßcWttt r-of b'afctle 'W|ajr^n m th« tfir, and .war correspondents are. already on • 7 thW w^Ho'Vth'i scene ■ ofprds'pectite horror. Several" of ther A '(36'gß of war " *Haye T alfe'ady ibeen - slipped, amongst them bain/ an eminent traveller and. litt&ratear, .^nt a new' recruit 'to' 'war correspondents, iMt.R. \4* i^fe u P*?°^ n ' wno wrote the boSklot uthe. sfiftsoiit/ " Across Ohrys^." He goes out for the Times to Hanoi, via Hong Kong, and the -public may confidently expect from his graceful and facile pen vivid descriptions of the scenes through which he pasße?, and of the iuii- > denia^f which be may be a spectator, |or 7 (w^at^more likely from his personal charactQf) a participator. I . .-, ■ '■w^ r ->v-r • . i '.^'; r lLJtfan|«hßcene wbs witnessed the oth,er, ; :dajrin a parish church m the Westiof En«lana. |Phere w&*.a7.^on&rsgatibn 'of a|out 500 persons, and the vicar preached, ire^erringi.in/.l>JB sermon to the joyful fes* ■tivitiejtiin.i^neigKbourhood ia honour of tfie^coming of age of the lord of the manor's eldest son and heir. He ex» prtsaed the opinion that while " my lord' . ifas very eenierous, it would have bean well if hehftd abstained from giFingbe^r, seeing that so much drunkenness pre-. ? vailed; /T,his ' knpo^etl a member of the congregation of the agricultural class, wiho publicly asked the preacher wh«t jit mattered to him, and said if they waited for the vicar's, liberality; they would hard to wait a long time. " x • i * The Bishop of Manchester, preaching at -Burnley, isaid he did not think people would get very much out of Atheism, for -though difficulties of belief were perplexing, those of unbelief were still more po. Did they reaHy ;belie'rtf that, this beaut if vi world, with ita cunning mysteries, came \6 be'what it was by mere chance, or that strange new doctrine of evolution which he had never been able to accept? He ; • could as soon believe that .the world came to be w hat it was wititiout ; a' Makor, fis hja r .could that the locomotive which brought him from Manchester that day came to be what it was without a maker. He de» nounced as low and ribald the ridicule lately heaped upon the Bible. • Qng . result. of tfip [dpanti?g up of direct ,a\eainucijnim r upioation between New Zea» l&nd ■ fln/dihe Home Country' iathat an expprt trade has sprung up m our ferns: and native plant*. Every steamer that hQiflfefyLytteltoDJia.s taken cases of pUots ffdm two-dr <b^f nursery?, men \ and up to ihe latest advices these ~ have arrived home m Excellent condition. .'The • AfeibquTne . i« .aatcbling v fits'' at the hands of the' 'Jf Sweepa who swm'dla" m Melbourne- TheJ promojera of the questioned consultations have started • aJtie wafanpdji >; ;<JttHfid:the; Sun m ppposition to the Herald, and the new paper "^oes 4dt"bothr the Herald and its detective m the most unbridled terms. The outcome ,'O.f it all' i?j that the proprietors of. the feun have been proceeded against for libel, and ■the caiciilnow proceeding. , Says the Wairarapa Observer :-^Mr Ga6'. Rumble and h)a family have left' this district for Asburst, near Palmerston North, wherehe ie likely togoii/to business. Messrs Humble and Wagland only & few . weeks nines sold their butchering business* to Mr Weaton, and since then both these ; geu^euien h^ye left the district., Mr Kumole had mado many friends m Carterton, and opnailquently was much respected, and his removal to unother 'dVsiriot will be felt, especially among the ditfeient societies to which he belonged. < A lively controversy is proceeding at Dunedm between the B|shop and the Her. W. Berry 7 on the subject of Ajegsrs Oibson and Martin, two Wssleyan cl«rgymen, Joining l\ie Anglican Church. It is thrown jn Mr parry's tee|h that he,himself bad expressed a wUk to jpia-th« Anglican Church. ( Martin Luther's hand Bible is preserved m the British Museum.