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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 175, 13 December 1876, Page 2

A remarkable case of monition by a dream has been reported to the Ballarat Star. The widow of a Presbyterian elder recentl} 1 ' deceased had continued to reside in the house in Ballarat where her husband died, and had failed to find a certain important document for which she had made minute search. One night she dreamt that her husband appeared to her, took her by the shoulders, and said, “ The paper you were looking for is wrapped round the others.” The widow thereafter renewed her search for the document, and found that it was the wrapper of others which she had previously examined in vain From Jamaica we learn that a quantity of treasure has been discovered at the Columbian coast, and is supposed to have been there for about two centuries, being originally in the possession of Morgan, the buccaneer. The finder has recently visited Kingston, seeking assistance in its recovery, and had with him some of the doubloons which, he stated, had been fished up.

The “ sun-downer,” (says the Bruce Herald) an individual dear to the Australian squatter, is not unknown in New Zealand, and even in this province he can manage to enjoy life “ on wallaby,” without soiling his hands with work.- The manager of a certain station in a neighboring district kept a record of the demands made upon him during the nine .vecks before the last shearing commenced, and found that during that period ho had fed and accommodated eleven men each night. When sheep-washing commonerd and he wanted men, the “ sun-downors” ceased to trouble him for meals and bed.

The Christchurch correspondent of the Otago Guardian tells the following story about Mr Moorhouse ; —“A very good story is going the rounds concerning a wellknown ex-Mayor of Christchurch, who lately figured in a very disreputable case at the Supreme Court. At the last general election he busied himself greatly in securing the return of Mr Wason for Coleridge, and Mr Moorhouse for Christchurch ; and, of course, boasts a good deal of the part he took in the matter. Meeting Mr Moorhouse the other day on the racecourse, he addressed him thus in front of a number of other gentlemen, in his usual patronising aggressive maimer— ‘ Do you know, Mr Moorhouse, that I am not at all satisfied with tbs line you adopted in the house this session ? You know I put you in for Christchurch, and 1 also put Wason in. He has conducted himself properly, but lam not at all pleased with you.’ The M.H.R. looked at him, and replied—‘Do you know that if I consulted my own inclinations and the disposition of my constituents, 1 should knock you down at this moment ? l and turning on his heel, left the discomfited magnate feeling very small indeed. Report says that Mr Moorhouse is one of the best boxers in the province, and, no doubt, at the moment he must have felt both able and willing to carry out his threat.”

Says the Wellington Post : —Wanganui always goes in for a big thing. Monstrous cauliflowers, b.iohdiguagian gooseberries, reviathan dockweeds, and other monstrosities it has produced in abundance. The latest thing out, however, is an enormous tapeworm which, according to the Chronicle, a resident there was relieved from. This tapeworm, our contemporary gravely asserts measured 33 feet in length. Now for length, breadth, depth, and general massiveness that is a lie which we never yet saw equalled. The Chronicle will never beat that.

A notice addressed to “ persons in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over religious bodies,” appears in the Gazette, reminding them that, by the Marriage Act, a return of all officiating ministers must be sent in to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year. This applies to the following bodies : The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church, of England, the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, the Roman Catholic Church, the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland, the Wesleyan Methodist Society, all Congregational Independents, Baptists, the Prim-, itive. Methodist Connexion, the United Methodist Free Churches, the Lutheran Church, all Hebrew congregations, the Society ,of Friends. With respect Ho ministers of religion not connected with any of the above bodies, it is necessary that a certificate signed by 24 householders resident in the district, declaring that such minister is their officiating minister, the said certificate being attested by two Justices of the Peace, shall be sent to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year. ~ The neglect in sending this certificate will deprive the minister of his status as an officiating minister under the Marriage Acts,