FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 133, 29 March 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The Rev Father Hennebery arrived at Dimedin on Monday evening from Ashburton. He proceeded to Invercargill during the week. A rumor is gaining credence to the effect that General Grant, ex-President of the United States, is about to visit Auckland. Parliament will probably meet for the despatch of business on the 25th July. A sad occurrence took place on Monday night. Andrew Paisley, a young man 18 years of age, and the eldest son of Mr Robert Paisley, a farmer at the Upper Junction, Otago, went out about 7 o'clock in the evening to shoot rabbits with a double-barrelled pistol. Next morning lie was found dead, with his brains blown out, in a paddock not far from his father's house, by a young woman named Eliza Lemond. In the deceased's right hand there remained the pistol, and the left side of his face was blown in. The place in which he was found favors an opinion that he was stepping back to take aim when his foot tripped on an incline, causing the firearm to go off. It has been deemed unnecessary that an inquest should be held on the matter. One of the saddest and mo3t painfully interesting applications for admission to the Victorian Asylum for the Blind ever made (says " iEgles") was entertained at a late meeting of the Committee. It was by the New Zealand Government, on behalf of a little fellow now in one of the charitable institutions of that colony. The father of this boy, being deserted by the mother, chained and shut up the child when about five years old in a room into which tkft only light that penetrated was through a gimlet hole. At this the poor little Avaif stood wistfully peering through at the sunshine which never otherwise reached him. Cold and inflammation in the eyes, caused thereby, resulted in almost total loss of vision. What blessing, it may be asked, descended on that loving father ? That I cannot tell ; but the descent of a special nine-tailed Providence upon his bare back would seam appropriate. Mr W. Hanlon, the sergeant in charge of the police force at Port Chalmers, was the means of saving life on Monday evening, lie was walking down the Railway Pier, and hearing a splash in the wat-r, at once ran to ascertain the cause. He found a man named Robert Miles, a seaman belonging io the barque Frederick Ba?il, floundering about, and procuring assistance, he at once relieved him from his perilous position, and had him conveyed aboaul his vessel. The Inte Bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W., whose death was announced in the telegraphic news, has left the whole of his large property, consisting of no less than sixteen valuable stations in New South Wales and Queensland, to diocese, for church purposes. It is estimated that the value of the bequest is not less than £250,000, the amounts for the various diocesan funds being as follows : Bishop's, income, £30,000 (£I2OO a year); stipends of dignataries, £II,OOO ; stipends of clergy, LIOO,OOO ; superannuated clergy, LIO.OOO ; fund for sick clergy, LSOOO ; new clergy, L 25,000; the training of future clergy, L25",000 ; the religious education of the young, L 44,000. At the Synod held in May last the late Bishop's intention to* devote his property to tiie good of the church was made public by his commissary in the opening address, the Bishop being absent through illness. The Tasmania!) f Church News' thus comments on the gift :—" The ecclesiastical world lias been almost startled, and certainly moved into admiration, to hear that Dr Tyrrell, the apostolic and singleminded Bishop of Newcastle, has provided in his will for the endowment of his diocese to ths extent of L 250,000. It has long been understood that the Bishop, who has never been home to England since his arrival in the diocese, more than thirty years ago, and who has lived a most frugal and self-denying life, devoted much time and thought to putting the finances of the church into a state of firm and lasting security, but the magnitude of the bequest has taken people by surprise." An article, which is understood to be official, appears in the ' New Zealander' in reference to the Waimate Plains difficulty. It S ays :—" The land must be re-occu-pied, although we have some doubt of the propriety of sending back the surveyors unless protected by a sufficient force." " The determined attitude of the Natives requires to be met by one equally determined." The article suggests as a retaliation that fifty acres of land each should be given to bodies of men on condition that they hold it for seven years. The article concludes: "Here, then, is the answer to Te Whiti, who might be distinctly informed that the Government would plant posts of volunteer settlements from Waingongoro to Parihaka, and then maintain them out of the reserves intended to be set aside for the use of the Natives. This is what we should understand by a strong policy, and we are well assured it is one that would prove eminently successful. Whatever power might be legally wanting to give effect to the contract, it could be obtained from the Assembly when it met.' The pension which Sir George Bowen will b? entitled to in 1881 will be the lamest allowed under the regulations. He has already administered the govern-

ment of colonies in which the Governor's salary is not less than £SCOO per annum, for 18 only awaits the completion of his sixtieth year to be able to claim a retiring allowance of £IOOO per annum. The regulation allowance for the expenses of the voyage home is from Australia £BOO, and that for the voyage from England to the Mauritius £7OO. As, however, he only proceeds homeward as far as Suez, taking the geries Imperials steamer thence Mauritius, the full allowance of £lsoO>* will, of course, be proportionately reduced. Holloway's Pills.—-Excellent Pills.— The resources of medicine and chemistry were long and fruitlessly tried before they yielded a remedy which could overcome disorders of the stomach and nerves till Professor Holioway discovered his purifying and tonic pilis. They are the safest and surest correctives of indigestion, heartburn, flatulency, torpidity of the liver, twitcbiugs, nervous fancies, despondency, low spirits, and declining strength. Holloway's Pills supersede all irregular action in the body, and so strengthen and support the system that disease departs, and leaves the patient not at all shaken. This is the grand aim and object of medical art, to regulate disordered functions without damaging the constitution by the remedy ; and admirably is this end attained by Holloway's Pilis.