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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 266, 10 November 1868, Page 2

A Melbourne telegram under date of the 22ud uit., states thafc a largo meeting has been held in the Baptist Chapel, Collinsstreet, to investigate the recent scandal which had arisen with reference to that congregation. The letters of the Eev. Mr 'Taylor were read, and other evidence elicited, which confirmed the worst suspicions which had been entertained against hira. Most distressing details came out, which indicated that he had been pursuing a course of disgusting immorality for several years. He has been expelled from the Church. A feat of rather an extraordinary nature has just been completed by Mr Strange, a Baliarat miner, says the Evening Post. He started with the rush for the Gympie, and arrived at the Yappa diggings, wirhip 12 miles of the Gympie, where he worked for some time with such ill success that he * determined to return to Baliarat on foot. The distance was 1700 miles; but he persevered, and accomplished his self-imposed task. On the journey ha met and was addressed by the bushranger Thunderbolt,who was on foot; but both parties beine*. well armed nothing came of the interview, Mr Strange beiiag fully as well prepared for violence as the now celebrated ruffian. It is stated that in consequence of an English Chief Justice having given it as his opinion that Colonial Indemnity Bills were uot a bar to actions being raised in Englaud, Mr Fitzherbert was endeavoring to induce the Imperial Legislature ta take action in the matter. Should Mr Fitzherbert be unsuccessful, many colonists who have suffered at the hauds of military commanders now in England will have opportunity for redress. The British Medical Journal says: — Everyone who has seen Prince Alfred sin c« his return must be gratified by his healthy bronzed aspect; and, although he has lost flesh, he is in excellent health. The serious and very painful wound wliich he suffered not only healed with remarkable rapidity after a period of acute pain and much anxiety — but has left absolutely no traces; and there is barely a skin mark to indicate an injury which was within an ol causing instant death.