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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2860, 15 April 1878, Page 2

Th* Ber. T. Lush, at S. George's last night, preached a sermon appropriate to the season, and the near approach of Good Friday, and enjoined; a proper Christian celebration of the: latter day. He urged hit hearers to spend as much time as possible during the week in contemplation Of the passion and sufferings of 'Christ. A tract on"How to spend Good Friday" was circulated through the Church, and the Ber incumbent announced that there Would be two full services on Friday, at eleven in the morning, and seven in the evening. Also, that on Sunday next there would be two celebrations of .Holy Communion—at 8 a.m., and after morning service.

MzflSBS 3xai,l and GoBDON, lessees of the* Moanatairi tramwny, lake exception to a statement which appeared in ?• The, Week " on Saturday last, " that the Moanatairi tramway ia in a very ricketty condition, and the appliances are in such bad order that occasionally a truck bounds over one of the bridges, smashing itself to pieces." The paragraph was no reflection on the lessees. It is obvious that a tramway which-has seen so much work as the Moanatairi cannot be in as good condition as when it was first built. As to a truck occasionally bounding orer one of the bridges, such incidents hare certainly been reported, but we are content to accept Messrs Small and Gordon's assurance that it ia not the fault of the " appliances."

Fbok the manifest of tho barque Lanarkshire we (Wellington Post) find that her cargo includes 17 hogsheads, 18 quarter-casks, and 123 cases of wine, beer, and spirits, all addressed to " Major Campbell, Legislative Assembly," or, in other words, for the use of our legislators at Bellamy's next session. What a fearful prospect is opened up by the importation of such a quantity of " talking power! " Why does not Mr Fox interfere ?

It is very probable that during; next session of Parliament the Government will be called upon for some; explanation regarding the Proudfoot case, as the matter has not been forgotten. " A Father" writes to the Canterbury Press as follows:—" Sir,—You offer a suggestion in this morning's Press to Sir George Grey, with reference to his address to the inhabitants of Christchurch, namely, that he should give an explanation as to the. abandonment of the Proudfoot case. I should like the question to be put directly and pointedly to him. Had the girl left Dunedin on the Ist of January, 1878 P And more, was she not there as late as the Ist February? both dates being after the supposed arrangement for the third trial, with change of venue." .

A deputatioh of director! of the Fiako Goldmininjr Company inferriewed, the County Chairman this morning with reference to the Waio-Karaka Drainage arrangements The County Chairman pointed out that the business more nearly concerned the Borough, and it was decided to meet again in company with the Mayor, who has been absent in Auckland, but is expected to return to-day. ■

A Psess Agency telegram says .:—•Mr Kennedy, M.H.8., has sent in his resig* nation as one of the members for the Grey. Mr W. H. Harrison, the late member* will probably be elected in his place unopposed. •

• .The following Press Agency telegrahic items are sent from Wellington: The main reservoir is practically empty now, but in the distributing reservoir there are 19 feet.—Mr Clarke, C.8., is rigorously employed making a comprehensive surrey of the city for drainage purposes, every available assistant of the City Engineer s staff being in constant employ.—Sir George Grey was to hare left Auckland to-day for Wellington, accompanied, by Mr Sheehan, but no word of his departure has yet been received.: Mr Stout is expected back at the end of this month.

We mentioned on Saturday that the first dray load of goods had been brought over the new County road from Puriri to Thames on that day- On the same day Mr Thomas Veale send a load of produce back as return freight, and to-day he receired a consignment by the same route. When these transactions can be of more frequent occurrence we may expect to be not entirely dependent on the mining resources of the place.

At 8. George's Church yesterday morning, the Key. Y. Lush preached from the 15th verse of the 116 th Psalm— "Precious jn the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints," the discourse having special reference to the death of Bishop Selwyn of Lichfield, formerly Bishop of New Zealand, whose labors in the cause of the Church in this Colony were briefly recounted, The death of the late Bishop Patteson was also alluded to in connection with the late deceased prelate. The Church was draped in mourning garb.

A collision between two steamers, resulting in a great loss of life, occurred tbout two hours' sail from Harwich a day or two since. The passenger steamer C. M. Palmer, Captain Cay, of Newcastle, bound from Newcastle to London with about sixty persons on board, was proceeding up the Channel, when another steamer, the Ludworth, Captain Meldrum, ran into and sank her within ten minutes. The latter Tessel was in ballast, bound from London to Hartlepool. The Ludworth stood by the C. M. Palmer, and her boats saved many of her passengers. Forty-three altogether were rescued. The Ludworth took those who were saved on board, and conveyed them into Harwich harbour. A pasienger .states that

be was on the deck of the C. M. Palmer previous to the collision, and tho whistle was blown by that Teasel two or three times before the collision occurred. Whon it was first blown the other Tessel was about fifty yards off. The collision took place close to the N.E. Bawsdey Buoy, and is attributed to what is termed a local fog—that is, affected one vessel, but not the other.—Home News. l

Mb Charles Bease, the eminent and always admirable novelist, has commenced in the Daily Telegraph what promises to be a series of letters on the subject of "The Coming Man." His text is the misleading influence Of the equivocal term ''antiquity," and therefore" the* danger and the folly of appeals to antiquity as arguments. *>The world, he says, has only entered on its adolescence 300 years—since the time of Bacon. "The juvenile world " is the term which he applies to the period between the.invention of the shield by intelligent savages; and the declaration, of the road to truth by the illustrious author of the "New Organon." Unverified hypothesis was. the argumentative method of the juvenile world; verified induction of the adult world. The former divined the sources of the Nile by guess work; the latter employs—Stanley I Mr Beade puts all this very amusingly, and • even very brilliantly. But .he omits, to "tell the public that his thesis is not his own—that it is, in fact, taken from the Bacon whom he quotes. Writes the " broad-browed Vemlaro/ 1 in the first book of the V Novum Organ urn " —" Those who are commonly called the' ancients of the world wen really its children; it is we—we their posterity—who are the true ancients of time."—Home News. ■ '. ■'-.'■•'■'