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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 285, 29 November 1872, Page 2

I It is reported that the Rev. W. M. | Puushon, the famed Wesleyaa minister, intends visiting the colonies. The Lytlellon Times says it is no exaggeration to say that the Canterbury Museum, taking it all round, is second only to that of Melbourne. These was a large gathering of Presbyterians in Dunedin recently, on the occasion of laying the foundation of a new church, which ia to cost £7000.A notice appears in the Fiji Government Gazelle, stating that any employee of the Government becoming in any way an interested party with the labor question, as a speculative business, shall he dismissed the service. The Eight Eev. Dk. Moran has arrived in Wellington. His Lordship has come to take charge of the diocese of Wellington, of which he has been appointed administiator by his Holiness Pope Pius IX. — Post. We (Napier Telegraphy have . been shown the photograph of the monument erected over the graves of the victims of the Poverty Bay massacre. The monument is a white stone obelisk, on the base of which are inscribed the names of thirty persons who were butchered on the 10th November. 186,8, and those who 'were murdered in December of the same year. This monument was , erected by public subscription, and records one of the darkest pages in New Zealand history < The Timaru Artillery Company must be in funds. They have just completed the purchase of a stone store for a drill shed at £750. Referring to some alterations about to be made by the company to the hall, the. Herald says: — These alterations will comprise the erection of a gallery, flooring the room, plas-; tering the' sides and ceiling, and erecting a gun shed and ante-rooms in the rear. When completed the hall will be the | largest public room in Timaru; the measurement of the main hall being 73ft. by 35ft., and the height inside about 50ft. in the clear," The End of the World. — Mr. James.. Smith, of . Melbourne, who delivered a course/ of lectures in < Dunedin some months ago, in a letter to the Melbourne 1 Daily Telegraph, says :— ln all the Sun-; ; day lectures I have delivered in;thiscity,^ I bave presented the Father, ajbd ,him only./ I-v have said that .; the -human ;race „ has. reached the term of its ; existence oorn r the" globe in its present cobditioni and that, in" order to qualify us to pass' from the animal into the spiritual life self, ..must , die; that this can only be .\eiFebte£:,^ love; and that in ord^to iobtair this,.,wef noiust approach Him as little children, feel- ! ing our.' impotence, four |;ignoia'n'c'e, our [ h elptessnesisi r " a^|o|t,^ei^ad|^ceV' ' tfcat • the greater our huDger and thirst for that

love tbe moTe . abundantly is it poured upon us; that as self decreases, He increases in us; until the earthly vessel, *p,firified by Him *is fitted to become the labeirndcle of ithe Holy Spirit; and that oil iwho': receive this will be capable of passing scatheless through that wave of magnetic fire which seems to have occasioned you so much amusement — • an amusement; I fancy, which will suddenly be transformed irfto consternation ere lon*. That magnetic fire is identical with the pillar and the cloud which went before tbe Israelites, with the burning bush of Moses, with the fiery chariot of Elijah, with the flame which consumed ; the sacrifice of that prophet, with the light that feUfrom heaven upon Jesus Christ, when the Divine spirit was incarcerated in bim at the age of 30, with the envelope which protected Shadrach, Meschach, and Abedueg.o from contact with the flames of the furnace, and with the tODgues of fire which flickered above the heads of the Apostles on the day of Pentecost. Each of the stars have passed through this magnetic fire, as our own globe is about to do; and if men were not so blind by materialism and deafened by the din of their worldly pursuits, they might discern in the physical phenomena of the times, in the 410 earthquakes which were recorded, last year, in the volumes of magnetic fire which are being projected from the sun, in the forest fires which have occurred in America, in the movements of the subterraneous fires of this planet, in the disturbances of its terrestrial magnetism, and in the immense number of deaths which are occurring from sunstroke in. countries situated within the temperate regions, some of the warnings and admonitions so repeatedly specified in the Old and New Testaments. Fui.-r-A. recent Australian telegram stated that a Fiji paper demand that Great Britain should be compelled to make an apology to the Fijian Government for an insult offered to its flag. The following is the amusing paragraph from the Fiji Times in which the suggestion is made: — " On Monday morning, before entering our port, the Ethel, man-of-war schooner, gave chase to a Fijian schooner, the Mary, which she overhauled for her papers in Fijian waters. We hope that the Government will resent this insult to the Fijian flag, and demand fitting and ample apology from Britain. The atrocious deed was committed within a mile or so of Fijian soil." The Ethel is a small schooner expressly fitted out at Sydney by | the British Government for the purpose of putting down the infamous slave trade which has been carried on by vessels sailing out of Fiji within the past five years.

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The rise in the price of iron (says the Napier Telegraph) is likely to seriously affect the iuclosure of lands in Hawke's Bay, the price of fencing wire being nearly double to what it was last year. A Lettbb from Vienna," the Pall Mall Gazette states, " gives some encouraging details regarding the prospects of the Universal Exhibition of 1873 in 'the Austrian capital. The building makes rapid progress ; a great part ©f the principal gallery, as well as of the four transverse galleries, of the Place of Industry being already covered in. The last day for the reception of exhibitors' demands for admission was the Ist of July. The result surpasses all previous precedents. More than 15,000 Austrian exhibitors have announces their intention of taking part in the exhibition, and from Hungary alone have come 3000 requests for admission. At the first London exhibition, in 1851, there were 7381 English exhibitors : and at the second, in 1862, 9387. At the first Paris Exhibition, in 1855, there were 11,003 French exhibitors, and at the second in 1867 there were 13,000 ; so that the number of Austrian exhibitors is considerably higher than the highest at any similar show of the kind. The German Empire will be represented by 8000 exhibitors, Belgium by 800, while Italy, Switzerland," and other European countries will send their products in large quantities. Of more distant couritries, the United States, Brazil, China, and Japan will be well represented, and the Porte as well as Egypt have taken the requisite steps to insure the participation of the East in the universal competition. Large enclosures are being prepared in the enceinte of the Exhibition for the accommodation, of Turkish and Egyptian products, There is every prospect, therefore, that the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 will not prove inferior to its predecessors." The Ballot in America.-— However great may be the success of the ballot in this country, says the Pall Mall Gazette, it does not seem to be giving much satis- , faction in the United States at the present lime. There has been no election of late, says the New York Herald, in which, from all appearances, there have been such gross irregularities tampering with the ballot-box as in the recent election of a governor in North Carolina. The politicians are not a whit less unscrupulous and bold in their dishonest manipulation of the ballots than those of New York have been. Indeed, the Herald is inclined to think they beat the old Tammany politicians. They know how to keep the ballots locked up and uncounted in certain localities, carrying the boxes home with them till they learn what votes are required to accomplish their object. In several counties claimed to be "Administration Republican," the vote cast exceeded the voting population. In Dupton county the voting population is put down at 2,959; the* number of votes actually reported is 3,485. In other counties the same suspicious irregularities are noticed. The mass of illegal and fradulent votes polled apparently is in the counties throughout the State where the negroes are most numerous. It seems evident that the Administration Hepulicans have been playing a desperate game. * ( Under such a state of things," adds the Herald, " the ballotbox is a farce." This may be so in the United States, but with us in England the ballot-box at present is a religion; and the Herald little knows how painful it is to us, who are Americanizing our institutions as fast as we can, to bear America speaking thus profanely ot her own Bocial . and political arrangements. The following is a precis of the telegram sent by the Governor of New South Wales to the Secretary of State with reference to the New Suez mail contract: — "A letter has been received by this Government from the Government of Victoria, stating that a telegram has been sent to England, intimating the willingness of the Government of Victoria to accept the proposal for a new. mail contract between Galle and Australia. The letter of the Xords Commissioners of the Treasury invites the whole of the colonies in combination to provide for the service on certain conditions, the object being to meet the interests of all alike. The Ministers of this colony do not consider that the Victorian Government is in a position to undertake the service behind the backs of 'other Australian Governments invited to join, and when sufficient time had not elapsed for the Imperial despatch even to reach New Zealand or Queensland. The intention being that the colonies should act conjointly or by a substantial majority, the Governor's advisers protest against the precipitate action of Victoria in order * to gain undue advantage, and urge, the Governor' concurring, that time be allowed for the colonies to act in conference and and combination." The reply to the above from London says that the of State vhopes that the '; colonies will immediately ob the Sues maiUoßtract,"