THE SAVIOUR'S INVITATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 176, 28 July 1870, Page 3

THE SAVIOUR'S INVITATION.

v *' Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," Gloomy and dark life's shadows gather round us, And high its surging waves about us roll ; But Jesu's pitying love hath sought and iound us, And whispers peace to every storm-tossed soul. And through the night, glad whispers, gently stealing, Come speaking words of pardon and of love ; And to our ransomed souls glad truths revealing, Of everlasting life and rest above. Come unto Me, we hear the Saviour saying, Ye laden souls, with fear and sin opprest ; And on my love vour trembling spirits staying, Come unto Me, and I will give you rest. Oh blessed truth ! that we to Jesus going, May find in Him the rest for which we pray, ■_id in his precious blood, for ever flowing, Wash every stain of guilt and sin away. Then sinner, come, while Christ to thee is calling, No more delay ; O, weary spirit, come ; Come, for the shades of death are round thee falling Now let thy loving Saviour lead thee home. Come sinner, come, and all thy sin forsaking, Flee to the cross ol Christ, and cling there fast, And, refuge with the Rock of Ages taking, There hide thee till the storms of life ore past. Be with us, Lord, when heart and flesh are failing, And set from earth our weary spirits free ; And let us hear thy voice, o'er death prevailing, Whisper the cheering welcome, Come to Me.

A Mr. John Francis Meaher communicates to the editor of the Waterford Mail, vouching for its " authenticity," the following extraordinary election bill : — "Jim F. R r, Mob Conductor and Botheen Boy, &c, to Mr. Herring's Election Agent, for she followiug . work and Mudeer done on the day of the polling, Feb. 26, '70 — Item to three shouts to Herrings, ot 2d per shout, 9d; item to three hurras for same, at 3d each, ls; item to four screeches at 4d each, Is; ifem to four bounces in the air, 4|d eacb, Is; item to making a noise for two hours, ls; item to hitting a voter for Kick am a v:ip of a dead cat, which I spent five hours killing the night before, 2s ; item to making a prod at and giving two strokes of a wattle to oue of Mr. Kickham's supporters, for which I got a most awful battering from the Kickharaites, 3s 9<l; item lo gipping one of Kickham's party by the windpipe or throttle, for which I got a slap of a rock over the left ear, leaving me since in care of a doctor, 6s 7d; item, to to striking a voter over the sconce with a mud-bag, for which I received cruel treatment from the women, ls 6d; ifem, on the declaration of the poll when Mr. Herring was declared elected by four majority, I took a fit of hurooing, shouting, screechin, roarin, leapin, bounciu, smash in windows, dashing into whisky shops, swallowing half-gailous of porter, six skelping glasses of whiskey, fowling peelers, smuggin sogers, until I found myself nearly dead in the lock-up the following morning, aud had to pay one shillin fine, 12s. Total, £1 10s. 7d.— P.S. : If this bill is not paid before St. Patrick's Day be Herrings tliere'l be bad work about it ; so look out for squally. — Yours to command. Jim F r. ' Wire Tramways. — There is now exhibiting on the Brighton Downs a wire tramway five miles in length, in perfect working order. It illustrates the immense advantages of this singularly cheap and effective method, whereby, as a feeder to railways or maritime transit, goods, minerals, and agricultural produce maybe conveyed. The difficulties encountered at Brighton are peculiar. The line is bent in two places at right angles, aad there are curves and serious undulatious of the most trying character. In the length of five miles there are 112 supporting posts. The rope is of charcoal-iron, two inches in circumference. The iron boxes run their course of five miles in about an hour. It is a 16-horse engine which sets the whole in motion. The line is capable of delivering 240 tons per day of ten hours. The endless wire rope, which ,is th characteristic of the system, is supported on a series of pulleys carried by substantial posts, which are ordinarily 300 feet apart. Where necessary, a' longer space, say of 1,000 feet, maybe taken. At one end of tbe liue the rope passes round a drum, driven by whatever power is used, at the rate of from four to eight miles an hour. The boxes carrying the load are huug oa the rope at the loading eud by means of a special attachment which enables it to pass the pulleys and posts with perfect ease ; the boxes carry from one cwt. to ten cwt. each ; the delivery is at the rate of one hundred boxes per hour. The loading and discharging arrangements, like the proportions of the lines themselves, can be varied to auy extent, to suit the requirements of any particular trade or district. The carrying power ranges from 10, to 1,000 tons per day. There are lines at present in course of construction in Peru, New Zealand, Brazil, Italy,. Sweden, and Barking Creek. As compared with other modes of transit the cost is remarkably small. • In the colonies • and foreign countries the system promises to be of most extensive application. A curious story is related by the Baltimore Sun. The prohibitory liquor law of the state of Michigan does not regard liquor as " property," and a woman whose husband was addicted to drinking brought au action against a publican, with whom her husband had a " score," for the recovery of the money spent by him, "on the ground that it had been paid to the liquor vendor without consideration." The Sun says the woman was successful in her cause, and recovered all the money which her husband had spent in the liquor saloon during the last six years.