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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 14, 15 January 1876, Page 2

We clip the following from , a Victorian exchange:— A rising of South Australia is the happy father of a precocious young damsel, over whose head ten summers and a corresponding number of winters have lightly passed. At a recent semireligious gathering, the minister of the church where the said politican attends, aeked the little damsel if her father was a Christian. ♦• No," indignantly retorted the little maiden, " certainly not; my father is a member of Parliament." A new Scotch church in Timaru is to be built of concrete, at a cost of £4000. A telegram from Montreal states that on the 4th of December, the Rev. Father Murphy, editor of the True Witness and a famous lecturer, and the Rev. Father Lynch, a talented young priest lately from Ireland, drove out to Back River, 7 miles from Montreal, and stopped at the La Jeunesse Hotel. At night, after retiring, a fire broke out in the hotel, aud Fathers Murphy and Lynch, and Madame Champagne, a lady sleeping on the third floor, were burned to death before assistance could be rendered. The La Jeunease Hotel, a large wooden building, burned very rapidly, and the flames spread to Marcott's Hotel opposite, both houses being burnt to the ground. (For continuation of JSews see fourth page.")