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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4350, 9 December 1882, Page 4

The Her. Mr Byng, Dunedin, advised coolness to be shown to tho Salvationists,

but the\Bishop of Rochester, preaching at Brockley, England, said a Rood word for . the Salvation Army. He went to one of - their meetings, aud all he could say was .. this, that they had got hold of the right tort of persons—persons he would give anything for the Church of England to get a hold of. . In regard to, the proposed, direct steam service of the N.Z. Shipping Company, the Post explains that as the New Zealand Shipping Company now send over fifty ; r ships to New Zealand every year, of which '.' many are chartered, they, anticipate that "*' 'there will still be ample work for their fleet of sailing vessels, in spite of the diver* sion effected' by their new steamers; the ■rV.only result of which they believe will be *:, to reduce slightly the number of ships re.'\qn\red to be chartered from other owners. .They,expect also to secure a large trade in the class, of goods which are at present

sent oat by Orient and P. and O. lines to 'Melbourne, and brought on thence by the Union boats, but which would naturally be.forwarded direct to New Zealand if a , regular line of fast steamers were running * lto New Zealand. The company* are sanguine of establishing a most successful and profitable trade under their new en terprise. C .'.The latest freak of the Melbourne larri- " kins is to victimise the Carlton Brewery

- by abstracting ale therefrom without .going through the process of paying for it. « They have rigged up,a cyphon of a some* what ingenious kind, which they insert at "night time" throUjghone of the open places J in the wall into one of the casks in the interior; The beer is thus drawn off, and '■'" the 'thieves hate thus been enabled to obtain'a supply of liquor without much •"difficulty.