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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1595, 30 December 1885, Page 2

Mr Dilrymple, of Inv»rc*rgill, hit received a letter from Sir George Grey, announcing his intention of paying- a visit to Invercargijl daring the laromer for the purpose of <( stirring the people up" on the land question. -, A notification appears m the Gazette of the appointment of Mr Thomas Kirk as Chief Conservator of Forests under tlie Act ot last session. Tha American people (says »n exchange) are fast giving up the habit of goins; to church, and are, as a natural consequence growing irreligious. There are religions m the heart . of New England where there have been ho churches for a long time. 2h> many villages close to great cities the church going habit han almost disappeared, and m great cities like Chicago, where (her* is certainly no lack of those attraction* which worldly people regard at necessary to bring the youn* io th* sanotuary, the decadence even m moat conservative and religious congregations is alarming. The Townsville people appear to have acted very nobly with regard to the cholera stricken passengers of the | Dorunda While the vessel wii m their port threatening the introduction of a fenrful scourge into the town, they held a public meeting, tt which they protested against the cholera and panicstricken Dorunda being allowed to continna her perilous journey southwards. The risk to the town was great ; the risk to the ship, the people thought, was greater. So they offered to take th* risk of having the terrified and possibly infected immigrants landed upon their own shores, where, we may be sure, the poor creatures would hare had all the assistance that such heroically unselfish people conld have given them. The offer was not accepted (Says the Sydney Daily Telegraph), but the fact that it was made, and made m terms that proved its sincerity, is one of the brightest incidents m the Australian history of the year.