ALL ROUND THE WORLD

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 88, 2 August 1876, Page 2

ALL ROUND THE WORLD

The Bombay papers are now mucin ei'cised by the following startling sts which appears in the Rev. Mr.. Tayls recently published work, " Four % Campaigning in India ": " A curious thing occurred one night after { of our preaching services. A number! just been saved, and I gave them aai portunity to bear witness for Jesus. Aj nalf-a-dozen new converts had spoken j to the point in their new-born simple a very red-faced, burly looking n whom I had never seen before, stood and gave a long detail of twenty yes experience of miraculous delivery which God had wrought for him, stat that he loved the Lord with all his ha Finally, the Rev. George Bowen j to Jus feet and the man sat do? Bowen knew him as a man i had just lost a good appointmi under the Harbour - Master on count of his habit of getting drunk, was well read in the Scriptures, profess high attainment in religious experien and most pious when drank. Here was in our meeting vitiating the testimt of true witnesses. Boiven was honifc and prayed that God, without injury him, would shut his mouth, and from tl time the man could liot speak for w weeks. I saw him in the hospital aI days after, and he wrote on paper what wanted to say. He seemed in good healt but his tongue had borne false witness the Lord's house, and God ..thus rebut him. He recovered his speech, buti not give up his sins and hypocrisy." T wonderful yam turns out to be a gi falsehood, and the rev. author has bi subjected to warm criticism for thus dn ing upon Ms imagination. Taken in connection with the fact.fi Prince Alfred has gone on a. two ya cruise, and his wife has returned to Em and also with the late allegation II there was talk of a divorce in a veryli circle in England, the following paragn from a home paper is curiously signifies — " The Duchess of Edinburgh does i intend to return to England. She 1 bought a villa in one of the islands oA Neva, which form the Bois de Boulogne St. Petersburg. The price she paid fa is 300,000 roubles, and a French archil is engaged to add a new wing to thiss dence. Her Royal and Imperial Higto has gone home with an unpleasant imp sion of England and the English. I dislikes the climate, the coal smoke,! noise of street-traffic in London, and railways in the country, the Court,! people, and everything but the serai whose silent way of getting throughti work pleased her. The Duchess las how to use her pen, and correspond freely with friends at St. Petersbui Quotations from her letters have fct their way to Paris, where distinguis! Russians are numerous." Madame Arabella Goddard has (saj contemporary) during the past three yf —or to speak mOre accurately, & years, one month, and seventeen di since her departure from Englandpeared in public at 189 concerts, i travelled 45,000 miles. The net profit the tour amounted to 75,000d01. j The largest receipts for a single cob were 3,100d01., at Melbourne. The spa vicissitudes of the lady's tour were following : Quarantined on arrival Melbourne for two weeks on accounl small pox on board ship ; almost fatal ness, contracted at Ceylon; robbed 200dol. at Madras, the money being a' wards recovered ; shipwrecked ■on north-east coast cf Australia; great I suit at Sydney, which was compronii* Madame Goddard has arrived in Eun and Avill shortly commence a starring t« A correspondent writing from Ph delphia to the " Wanganui Chronic says: —"So far as exhibits go, the' hibition is a great success, but there not near the number of visitors they pected. Great Britain and her Cold are exceedingly prominent; appaW far exceeding all other nations, es(j America. Great credit is due to; Hector for the show he has got togrf on our account. He very kindly sho» me round our department. I found! nothing is calculated to bring aJ* country like New Zealand so pronuitf* before the world, as these universal' hibitions, and nothing would pay tisW than to lay out a good sum out in' way at the next English one." A Birmingham printer relates that on occasion an old woman from the coPj came into his printing-office with an oM« print Bible in her hand. "I wan*-2 said she, "to printii again. It' a little blurred, and Toy; eyes is was. How much do you ax?" "W? crown." " Can you have it done in hour ? Wish you would —want to be g home. I live a good way out of to* When the old lady went out, he sent roi to the office of the Bible Society, and p chased a copy for half a crown. " Oh) • exclaimed the old lady, when she earf look at it, "how well you've printed it,» how quick you've done it; *• • I never nothin' so curious as printers is !"