The Evening Mail. MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 591, 25 March 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1878.

A special train last evening, cousistmg ol 5G v.-'i. .'"-. for the purpose of conveying the animals belonging to Messrs. Bailey and Cooper's menagerie and circus to Oamaru from Pukariti. Ihe above vehicles will, with the addition of several extra carriages, be formed into ■ Inee trains. The tirst will 1.-ave Oamaru at 4 p.m. ; the second and third at about 7 p.m. to-day. After loading, they will return to o.maru in t';e small hours of the m-ruing. Ordinarily such an undertaking would have interfered with the every-day winking of the line ; but such arrangements have lieen made by the management that not the slightest inconvenience or hitch can possibly occur. The 5G waggons before mentioned left Christchnrli laden with gen-ral merchandise, which was discharged at the various stations along the line, arriving at Timaru about 2 a m. on .Sunday.

Mails for Australia, per Alhnmbra, close at Hokitika at 2 p.m. to-morrow.

We are informed from the Telegraph Office that the Port Darwin line is interrupted north of Charlotte Waters.

| Mr. ft rave's property, consisting of Waterloo House, impen'al Hotel. London i House, and the vacant ailotun-ut betwi.-en London Hoii-e and Mr. i'amiil<-n"s premises, the whole having a frontag; to I'hames-street of 132 ft. irontng ■, including stable-, granaries, ami other otit-buihiiugs. was submitted to public competition by Mr Greentield. at the Mason c Hall, to-day. I'he attendance was large. The highest bona Jiil? otfer was that, of Mr. Shrim.-ki. wlio bid L.sJDO. It was withdiawn, and subsequentlv put up in smaller lots, but athe i tl'eis failed to the vendor's price, they were withdrawn from .-ale.

'I he business brought bef.,re T. \Y. Parker. Ksq , ft M., at the Resident Magis'rate".Court this morning was uuther lengthy nor interesting. The following persons were tined fora.lowing cattle and h..r.-,e.- to wander at large:—Walter Knight, one horse, 3 James liciil. one horse, (is. Gil.: Patrick M'Curker. one cow. (is. b'il. Charges were also preferr-d against Mrs. Mertrie, John Thomson, ami George Quarrie for allowing horses and cattle to be at large in Glenstreet, in the rifle range gully, but they were discharged with a caution. The iii-

spcctr.r of Nuisances stated that in futurehe would impound all cattle at large on that part of the town.

\Ve have often heard of live frogs being found imbedded in trunks of trees, coal, and stone, but we, as well as many others, had received such statements with a certain amount of doubt. To-day, however, all unbelief, so far as we and a number of other witnesses are concerned, was set at re-t. for in a lump of coal about four inches long was discovered a real live frog. The coal, on being broken, disclosed the little animal, which has been ensconced in a small cavity scarcely larger than himself doubtle.-s for ages. "\Vh.-n liberated, he hopped and skippe'. about a-; though he wapleased to once more see iUo daylight, and wished to shake off the coal dust attached to hi- armour. '1 he fp g may be seen at the ottice of Messrs. Galbraith and. Co.

The lecture delivered i.y Mr. XV. L Ilees. M.K.U.. on Saturday evening la-t, for t!ibenefit of the Mechanics' In~citu c building fu:.il. was moderately well attended. Mr. I Hisioji. M. JI. l;.. oecupied the chair, ami in ! introducing Mr. K.-e>, paid that gentleman ! :i high rompiiment, but iievertiieie.is one of I which If- proved himself worthy, bv saying I that attentive iist.-ners would be rewarded for their pairs. The lecturer is a llueiit speaker, ami. as i.s liis eu.storn, spoke uithout a note, and that for an hour ami threequarters. Xot a word was misplaced, aiui the language was such as to secure the undivided attention of the audience throughout. The subject is one worthy of study, as it sdieds very considerable liiriit on .Scripture prophecy. It wa.s demonstrated by the lecturer in a reasonable manner that the prophecies which have always been taken to apply to the Christian Church were intended for the children of Abraham. The twelve tribes were divided into two sections —the two tribes of Judah were destined to wander throughout the earth, and the remaining ten tribes were, in the year "lift before Christ, taken captive by Shahraiu-zer. and exiled be_w>i;d the Euphrates. The lecturer referred his hearers to the fjoth chapter of Isaiah, where they would rind it distinctly laid down what was to bee >me of the two sections. Due hundred and forty years subsequent to the comm- neement of the captivitv of the ten tribes of Israel, the two tribes of Judah met with the sane fate under the I'.ibyb n<sh captivity. They were afterwards traced back to Jeiusalem: but I from the time of the Babylonish captiviry I the two tribes of Judah had wanj tiered to ami fro on the earth, and hail been scattered to its remote corners : i but hail preserved characteristics which stamped their identity. Prophecy concerning them iiad been fulfilled to the letter. I 'I he fate of the other ten tribes was very ! different. Their identity was lost, and u was only by careful study of history and the Scriptures that the problem of the lost ten tribes of Israel could be solved. According to prophecy, these were destined to | build up the greatest nation on the earth. .Sharon Turner, in his history of the AnuloSaxoiis. traces them to a spot beyond thRiver Euphrates ami Araxes. Evidences of their sojournings are to be seen in various parts of Kurope through which they passed on their way to England, where they finally I settled. It was 'Well-known that Scripture | said of the tribes of Israel that they were to | speak a different tongue, hut that they were ! to become chief among the nations "of the earth. There were many evidences in our language that we had descended from the ten tribes of Israel, ami the word Sacchasanes —the name by which they were known—wasa variation of the word Isaac, the first svllable being omitted, as in the case of Stamboul, from the word Istamboul, and Spain i from the won I Hispania. J-Jy fixing upon the Anglo-Saxons as the lost tribes of Israel, the prophecies of the Scriptures wer.: opened. It was said that Israel would girdle the earth, and it Juighc be said that the Anglo-Saxons did that at the pre.-ent day. The Queen of England could be proved to be a lineal desecudrint of the house of David. The t rophet Jeremiah disappeared in the ye?r SSO before Christ. History says that at about that period a prophet arrived in Ireland with a portion of the tribe of Dan, accompanied by a ; princess, and lauded at Tara (Hebrew for the tables of the law). 'I he princess was afterwards married to an Irish chief. The prophet brought with him a stone reported to be Jacob's pillow, which is row the coronation stone of Great Britain, and is in Westminster Abbey. The kings of Scotland were traceable from the princess, who Was buried at Tara. It was proposed to open her tomb, where it was b-lieved that the Ark of the Covenant was buried. A vote of | thanks to the lecturer was carried by acclamation

The two railway engines recently imported from America, named the Washington and Lincoln, are now in full work, and quite capable of performing the duties for which they were procured. The railway platform at Deborah Town has been completed, and will shortly bo opened. This will prove a great conveuiencto the settlors of Awainoa, White Hocks, and the surrounding district. It appears that the school children will not he afforded an opportunity of visiting Messrs. Copper and Bailey's Menagerie and Circus free of charge. Those who were desirous of giving the school children a treat have failed in accomplishing that object in consequence of the difficulties with which the idea was invested.

The Hon. Daniel I'ollen and Mr. Whitaker, M. H. R. (accompanied by the Hon. M. Holmes), and Mr. Seed, Commissioner of Customs, visited the Kakanui harbor works during last week, and expressed themselves highly satisfied with the manner in which the harbor works had been carried out. They also inspected the Kakanui .Meat Preserving Works, with which they were highly pleased.