A Lord Mayor in the Pulpit.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 82, 27 December 1884, Page 6

A Lord Mayor in the Pulpit.

A somewhat unusual f-pectacle was witnessed at Limehouse last evening, when the Lord Mayor (Mr Alderman Fowler, M.P.) preached a sermon at a service held to celebrate the reopenincr of the Brunswick Weslcyan Chapel, 3, Colt street. There was a large attendance. Basing his discourse upon the text, " Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved," his lordship explained the circumstances attending Paul's great missionary expedition into Macedonia, and his imprisonment at Philippi, specially dwelling on the fact that, despite his bodily suffering, the apostle was happy during his incerceration, and gave expression to his happiness bysinging praises to God. His lordship held that Paul was enabled to maintain this composure because he knew that God was his comforter and friend. By accepting the words embodied in this text— the words which Paul uttered to the gaoler on. his release — all men could obtain the happiness which they longed for, and it was only by attaining that happiness in this life that they could hope to realise the joy of the life hereafter. If they believed in Christ they would have nothing to fear from death. Death a\ ould then be the entrance into a better and more enduring inheritance. — "London Standar '."

The native meeting to be held at Ranana on the Wanganui River, which is referred to by our Wellington correspondent, has been called to consider the construction of the North I&land Main Trunk Railway, I also the disposal of land, and will be attended by all the principal river chiefs. The Hon. Mr Ballance, Native Minister, has been invited to explain the intentions of the Government, and the invitation has been accepted. The korero is expected to last a couple of days, after which Air Ballance will come overland through the Palmerston and Wairarapa districts, thence returning to Napier and Gisborne. At the last-named place the Native Minister will have an interview with Major Ropata. From Gisborne Mr Ballance will return to Wellington, or, as circumstances direct, proceed on to Auckland, with the view of visiting the chiefs Rewi, Wahanui, and others at Waikato. Gccrge Bodley, a Dunedin bankrupt, who was guilty of fraudulent practices, has had his certificate of discharge suspended for two years. Pleasant prospects for New Zealand industries. — M. de Harven thinks Belgium could fend us iron £2 a ton cheaper than it could be made in the colony from ironsand.

< s *iml lias must of the characteristics of the ?>old beating part of the lode in the apper level, but up till now it has not shown any of the precious metal. F'fteen.'ir twenty feet more will have to be driven to bring the face under the workings/above.