Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1657, 13 March 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

Tn? reporting the ■WesleyariConfcencc; meietihgs at'Oliristchin-ch',- the Pmb I; gives particulaVs ; relating lo the Rev. Mr Bavin's desirb to go to Sudney, ; ;which ( afford; some interesting reading, f According to the Lyttelton Times? Mr -■ Bavin \said " that the prospocfcj_ however remote; of separation" from "'this Con f ure'n cc /was very painful to him. Ho. believed', how-' ever,!, that ,'thQ,c.all wasa; Pi vine one; especially;; m: view,;of the interests of his family:" Subsequently, a debate took : 'place ;on the, request, during ■which' ''opinions' were expressed as' to the call;" ; According to the Press report, " the Bey! J S.. Smsi.l ley said he wouiji:.,like to ( mQye,the negative of that " transfer: ■■.; lie/ had notrheafd of any-- reasons provriigthat Mr ]£avfn had % Divine call to^New South Wales; He '-would-' mpT'e thai Mr 3avin be .requested . to withdraw his. request. TheJßey J-. J. tiewia" vr'Quld. .object. .to keep Mr Bavin's i»ody m Mew ; Zealand while his heart was m New South . Wal<BS;; Still- he nVusHeco^hise the ihfluence Mi* Bavin 'has bvertne hearts, -of our people; and' lye thought Mr !sayiri -'sliipiilil I ' accept l the vole, of •'■:tHis;tsbnj«reiice v .a?;;tl(e,yoic : e;.of (ipd." The -presumption of the last speaker as cpnyeyad ...in th'e'Jast sentence, is. perfectly ■ charm ing. -The Eev, Mr , - Morley could riot offer any olijoction to the trari.sf(»r after Mr Bivin had ; said he 'felt it' was a call from God io New S.OHLh: Wales." This, however,, was, capped ; hy the Rev J. Snvauey, who, m referring to '•. calls," said ,he tho.uglit that Mi 1 : Bavin had received a call from m any New Zealand circuits. ' . . The;section of the glohe lately suffering -theacourge of war is already the graveyard of arihies. Thb, country souLh pfj;he JDanu.be.has drunk up-the blood of .countless hosts. Persiaus / and ' Greelis, Romans* Florentines, yenetians,~~Sla vs, - A ustrians, Huns; Turks, Russians, and Tartars have laid ..down, their lives by the hundreds ofthousand m that peninsula. Every .tov/n'has had its seige, every pluiu its battl^ and every craggy mountain pa^s its struggle and saorifi c. From Thcrmopvlse to Bhipka more than two thousand years-of blood iutervened, but nothing that lias occurred m all. that., time has' sufficed to curb the belligerency of : nian, : and he clainoujs for war to-daj- the same as he did •when J^son and the Argonau ts Set ou f for the Gjdlden Fleece. -Yefc^var is admittedly the most direful of human evils. It wjistes.and destroys. Itis cruel, Irtoodtinrsty, savage. It kills and maims men, and fills the land with widows and orphans. Sonieiimcs righteous righteous, it is generally causeless and useless. Voltaire deorebes '..it : as the slaughter of thousands that a. few may have monuments. Some little .time ago we wrote on the subject of an endeavor being made to attract lo New Zealand immigrants who ; ; should be practical farmers, possessed of, some little capita], and to that end suggested tha bit would be' to the advantage of the colony to pay he passage of a smsill number of such tojnen> even though they miahtnotcae to, travel m the steerage, rather than to --induce, hordes ot men to come out who could not get on afc Home, because they could not do so anywhere' We are glad to observe that Sir Dillon B.hH holds precisely the same opinion, and the. London .corge^pondent of a North I«lnnd paper writes on the wahje siibject:^^*' The experience of the Canadian 'Government would seem to indicate <'that- this i class^of settlers csiii bei aMi'actf'd' by thousands, if only pi»iflewhtJy liberal tef m« of coiiyh v» pee ajris; qfierld ;.^o, Jbhem. What they d[vead moi'Q '' frfjian anything olse is tr^)e|)^g v tjn , jhp'v Ifttje reserve of loamtal' }j>efe t||ey ft|fß la oqeupatjpn