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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1104, 24 July 1882, Page 2

At the Trust Commissioners' Court to-day, a certificate was appended to the transfer of a portion of Wangaromia proper from Hine Wetl to T, E, R. Bloomfield. An application for a transfer of interests in Rangarehu and Ngutiaroa Biecks, Hirinl Turl to Piribi Tukekono was adjourned until next Monday. Wo hear that Mr William Cooper is the Biioceasful tenderer for draying and carting the piping and machinery to the grounds of the South Pacific Petroleum Company, At Gladstone, in Queensland, a meteor, resembling a ball of red fire, was seen to drop vertically from the sjty on the night of the 17th of June, It separated into three parti, lighting up the whole town, end exploded with a sound like thunder, flia wliale phenomenon lasting about 30 seconds, At the Roman Catholic Church at Dunediu last Bunday evlening Bishop Moran, in tho course4of an adreas upon the present systeiA of educating children said that unfortunately some who culled themselves Roman Catholics had proved to be enemies of the Church and had used their influence in Parliament against Catholic interests They maintained that they are entitled to the name of Catholics, and appealed to Irishmen because they were descendants of Irishmen. Some few Roman Catholics and Irishmen might be deceived by them, but they ought not to be recognised as Catholics Because they were not so, being iu direct apportion to all doctrines and policy ot the Roman Catholic Church they wero a stumbling block,and opprobrjun} of scandal to Roman Catholics and Irishmen they sent their children to Godless schools although they lived within reasonable distance of Catholic schools. They were therefore living in wilful sin and could not receive the sacraments of the Church nor Christian burial.

A London correspondent writes :— “ A discovery of deep interest to historians and Biblical scholars has been made near Bagdad by Mr Rassam, the explorer of Eastern antiquities. The “ find " consists of a pile of ruins three miles in cireum. feronce, in which, after four days' excavation, Mr Bassam laid bare a room paved with asphalt. On digging through the asphalt he camo upon a coffer covered with inscriptions, and contain" inscribed cylinders, which are supposed to be the most important records of the oldest city in the world, founded, as historians tell us, by Noah after the deluge, and where, according to tradition, Noah buried the antediluvian records." As Mr Rassam cannot rend the records, and never heard of the ruins until they wore casually mentioned to him by an Arab, it is not clear by what means ho so quickly indontiflod the site and determined tho character of the in, scriptions. I, for one, shall bo sorry if he is mistaken. The subject of the deluge has always puzzled mo extremely, and I have heard others say the same. Whero for instance, did it go, jf the flood was universal P And if it was only partial, what propped it up round tho outside ? If is staggering to think that these and other weighty problems may now bp on the eve of solution I What if tho Srecious brick should prove to bo 'oah’s log book I —if I may use that term. Anyhow, tho ceramic records are on the way to the Assyriologiste of tho British Museum, who can read everything, and we shall soon know what they mean. 11 The well-known charter of Mr Rassam ns an ex, perienoed explorer, not given to jok. ing, is guarantee sufficient that the announcement he nrndo the other day at tho Victoria Institute is not to be classed w.th that of an unscvupulqua American who same time ago pretended to havo discovered the lovelefors that passed between Pharaoh's prime minister and the wife ,f p o ti» phar,"

The Orient Steam Navigation Company have communicated totheir agents the ground on which it is deceided the Company’s vessels will not for the future call in Adelaide. They aay the trade of that port is not re'ifiunerative, they do not receive sufficient encouragement for the S. A. Government on the mail question and are generally disatisfied with the quarantine charges leivd on the garontn the postage charges of the Port, and the difficulties in the way of discharging cargo on Sundays.

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