LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 994, 22 August 1882, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ Munificent Gift. —Sir George Grey ■as given'his magnificent library to the Auckland University: I Bishop Redwood. —Dr Redwood lias [gone to Sydney to be present.at the opening of the Cathedral there, The Steam Tug Titan. —The steam tug. Titan has arrived in Timarn, and her appearance has made a favorable impression. Entertainment at Pleasant Point.— The Temuka Christy Minstrel Club will give an entertainment at Pleasant Point to morrow evening. The club has already given an entertainment in this town, and we can confidently recommend them. Their entertainment is thoroughly, enjoyable. Butter, Cheese and 1 Bacon-curing Factory Company. —A meeting of the newly appointed directors of the above ■company was held last Saturday evening in Mr Storey’s. Wallingford Hotel. Present —Mssa-rs Guild, Austin., Cain, Paterson, J. T, M, Hayhurst, Gray, and >

Grant. Mr James Guild was voted to the chair, Mr Ashwall was appointed secretary pro tern. Messrs Guild, Gray and the secretary were appointed to sign cheques. It was resolved—“ That Guild and Paterson go to Edendale to see the factory there with a view of obtaining information with regard to the kind of buildings that would be required etc.” It was also resolved to advertiss for a suitable site for the factory, all offers to be in by the Ist of September. The meeting then adjourned to Saturday, 2nd of September. Fire. —Three attempts have been made to burn down the old buildings leading to the railway station in Timaru, but a fourth, made on Sunday moi’ning, proved succesful. The constable on duty after having inspected the place at about 3 a.in. went towards the Melville Hotel, and on his return found the shop lately occupied by Mr Wadlow, and now vacant, together with Mr Coxhead’s photographic studio, on fine. Pie tried to ring the firebell, but it was broken, and then he went and rang the bell at the police station. Captain Amos, of the fire brigade, heard the noise, and it took him very little time, with assistance of some others, to get some hose out. As there was a splendid supply of water the fire was soon put out, but it had destroyed the shop lately occupied by Mr Wadlow, Mr Goxhead’a photographic studio, Messrs Wood and Smith’s branch drapery establishment, and Mr R. Turnbull’s grocery shop. The stock in Mr Turnbull’s store was removed, but suffered considerably in transit. Only for the night being calm much greater damage would have been done, and as it was the heat cracked several windows in the Club Hotel on the other side of the street. The insurances, so far as we have been able to ascertain, were as follows ;—Oa the building, £750 in the Liverpool and London and Globe office ; on Mr Turnbull’s stock, £SOO in the otandard : on Messrs Wood and Smith’s stock, £BOO in the National;, and on Mr Goxhead’s stock, £l5O in the Standard. Captain Amos was very severely hurt by a blow from the jet, which rendered him unconscious for a long-time. Mr Courtis, of the gas works, also got hurt in a similar way. Kerosene tins have boon found at the rear of Mr Coxhead’s premises with holes bored through them, and it is supposed that they were used in setting the place on fire. This is the most determined case of incendiarism we have heard of.

The Egyptian Question.— I The Eev. Mr Gordon, last Sunday evening 1 , mad# the present difficulty in Egypt the subject of a very eloquent discourse. Ho first read .chapters from the prophecies of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, and showed how their prophecies in regard to Egypt had been fulfilled in olden times. He also showed how it had been prophecied that Egypt should never rule nations, and that it would be the basest of nations. This prophecy has been fulfilled since Egypt cams under Mahommedau rule. Taking his text from the 10th verse of the sth Chapter of Jtremiah, “ Go ye up to her walls and destroy; but make not a full end ; take away her battlements for they are hot the Lord’s.” After stating that tins verse referred to Judea, whose people placed more dependence on the battlements which they had built than on their God, ho pointed out that it had been prophecied that Judea, Egypt, and Syria, would one day be united and form one great nation. He believed the time was now, drawing near when the Word of God with regard to these nations i would be fulfilled. He next referred to Egypt since its foundation by a grandson of Ham. It was not large, and it was very much dependant on the Nile. It had a history and a civilization of great antiquity, and at the time when Israel went to live in it it was the most prosperous and civilised on earth. When the Homans conquered it a great many:-na-tions often depended on its granaries for their sustenance, but when it cam* under Mahomedan rule it became the: basest nation on the face of the earth, and re. maioed so ever since. He next referred to it when it was under the sway of the Circassian Mamalukes. Then Napoleon stepped in to take it, but was beaten by the British, who took from it a stone on which was an ancient record in various languages, and the study of these enabled tho hieroglyphics of Egypt to be read. Egypt was now coming prominently before the people every day because Great Bntain was engaged in war there. When the Greeks came, Jew and Gentile were living peaceably and prosperously together there. The Jews have for . centuries been on the side of the Mahomed a ns against the Christians ; they have always preferred the Crescent to the Cross, and they must expect to share the plagues which shall befall the nation of Moslem. Egypt was noted for its strange monuments and buildings, The great Pyramid covered II acres of land, and showed the wealth and power of tho nation when it was built. ; These 'great monuments were built with Egyptian money. When David died ho left Solomon £100,000,000. and this was added to by what Solomon obtained from the Queen of Beersheha. All this gold had been taken to Egypt, and it was Avith it these Pyramids Avere erected. ■ ■ On the aidbs of the great Pyramid were strange characters,. and amongst other things tho year 1882. has been mentioned as a year of great change#,

in Egypt. In the language of Daniel and the writer of Apacolypse the prophecy regarding Egypt had been fulfilled, that it would be th* basest of nations, and this it had been under Mahomed an rule. In 1882 the power of Mohamed would be broken, Great Britain had undertaken the task. first she had bean promised the of France and Italy, but had been—basely deserted by them. These were under the power of tiie Papacy,and destined to come under the rod of God too. The rer. gentleman then referred to the what he called apestacy of the Church of Eomo from her primitive and expressed an opinion | that great reformations, religious as well as political, were close at hand. The great danger was from Russia. Thera was danger of a war between Englandjand Russia and if that cams to pass there would be strange scenes of blo'bclshcd from which England would not be altogether free. He believed they were on the borders of the time, when as prophecisd, Egypt, ludia, and Syria would unite. England would rule Egypt for a time, but it would bo only while it would be the will of God. She was not destined to hold Egypt for long. He believed they were on the border of the time when the false prophet of the f east, and the power of Romanism in the west would be destroyed, and when great reformation would take place in their systems. He next referred back to the text, and said he believed England had been called upon to go up to “ the walls and destroy,” and concluded with an earnest exhortation to his congregation to pray for the success of God’s clinch. The manager Newlands wants a married couple. Mr Q. Taylor Winchester, has a waggonette for sale ; also harness. , Messrs J. T. Ford and Co will- hold a special sale of fat stock next Friday, at Winchester. ' * A Messrs Maclean and Stewart, will hold a sale of freehold property in -Timaru next Thursday ; they will also sell-furni-ture etc., etc., at the Shamrock' Hotel, Timaru, next Friday, under bill of sale; and at Pleasant Point, on the same day, they will hold their monthly stock sale. Mhssrs R. Wilkin and Co., will sell next Tuesday on the farm of Mr J. G* Mackay, at Springbank, near Pleasant Point, 540 acre farm, sections in Morton township, near Pleasant Point, and liv« and dead stock.