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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 108, 31 October 1877, Page 3

/ ABevfcre lesßon was taught by the Vin^ cent Ctfutnty ' Council to a contracting firm by thiaforleitui'e of over :8400, duo on completion of a' road contract which, on beiijg inspected;^was found to bo not according to specifications.. The surveyorl advised, a de? ; duction equal to £125 as the amount of work. ,io , TKhich fche' Council was. entitled, , and njMLn,ot received, but the necessity of an example was unanimously allowed, hence thej Mlei^re.— " G. R. Argus." The^ppl and his Tolly.— The Avdrossan and Saitcoats Herald, publishes tlie following extract of a letter written to a friend byMr-parlylo :-^-"A good soi'6 of man is this Darwi^' and. well meaning, but with very little intellect. Ah, it's a sad, a terrible thing,- Jo : see- nigh a whole generation of men andwoineiiyprofessirig to bo cultivated, looking 'round m a purbSnd fasluonj and finding ho God m this universe. I suppose it. is a reaction from the reign- of cant and hollow. pretence, professing to believe, that, . m fact,). they do not believe. And this is what we We got to. AU tilings from frog-spawn ; the gOßpel of dirt (the order of thejday.; The older I grow— and I now 'stand upon the brink of eternity— the more comes back to me th.c sentence m the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes i -- < What is the chief end of man ? To glorify Godi and enjoy him for ever.' No gospel of dirt; teaching that men have descended from frogs through monkeys, can ever set that aside." Our contemporary adds — " Some time ago Mr Carlyle was heard to Bay that he was seeking his way back to the simple faith of his childhood/convinced that there was morg m that than m all the wisdom of the ilUtminati." An Irish immigrant hearing the sunset gun at Portsmouth, asked a sailor, " What's that ?"i" Why that's sunset," was the reply; — -"8101861," exclaimed Pat. "And does the sun go down m this country with such a bang as that!"