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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 199, 22 August 1881, Page 1

Thomas Carlyle, in a letter to the late Mr. Erskine, of Linlathen, dated. 12th February, 1869,. says :"I was agreeably surprised by the sight of your handwriting again, so kind, so welcome! The letters are as firm and honestly distinct as ever — the mind, too, in spite of its frail environments, as clear, plump-up, calmly expectant, as in the best days ; right so ; so be it with us all, till we quit this dim sojourn, now grown so lonely to us, and our change come! ''Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy willjbe done '; what eise can we say ! The other night, in sleepless tossings about, which were growing more and more miserable, these words, that brief and grand Prayer, came strangely to my mind, witn an altogether new emphasis ; as if written and shining for me in mild, pure splendour, on the black bosom of the night there ; when I, as it were, rend them word for word — with a sudden check to my imperfect wanderings, with a sudden softness of composure which was made unexpected. Not for perhaps thirty or forty years had I once formally repeated that Prayer ; nay, I never felt before how intensely the voice of man's soul it is ; the inmost aspiration of- all that is high and pious in poor human nature ; right worthy to be recommended with an ' After this manner pray ye. ' " At a pound sale at Wanganui the other day a cow was sold for' ss. The " Taranaki Herald " says there is not a place on the face of the earth that can excel for its climate the district of Taranaki. The following is given as a proof :—" Mr. Hulke's garden is a pretty sight : and he has four camelia trees which he says he will defy anyone to beat its size. One is Oft 6in high by 34ft in circumference ; another 12ft high by 40 feet in circumference ; a third lift h'ieh by 42ft in circumference, and a fourth 18ft high by 50ft in circumference, besides over a dozen others from 6ffc to 10ft in hcighth, the circumference being in proportion. Mr Hulke has just finished gathering his first crop of guavas ; and the second crop from the same tree will be ripe in a months ime. His first crop of citrons is now ready for gathering, and it is quite a curiosity to see the large swollen green fruit and the bloom of a second crop on the same tree A lemon tree is now covered with bloom, tho ripe : f ruit having been just picked," r