NEWSY PARS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10348, 22 April 1911, Page 2

NEWSY PARS.

Mr Akthur Eialei announces hia candidaturd for ai stelat on thei Thames Borough Council. He is well known to our readers, has been identified with] Friendly Society work and other looal institutions on which he has done useful work.

May. W. H. Hinton will preach as ulsual in the Baptist and Congregar tional Church. Ai referemoe to our advertisements will give his subjects.

.£•1000 for 12 .sprays of sweet peas! Such is the prize that the Daily Mail (London) is offering for the best hunch of sweet peas -grown, by amateurs residing) in tha British Isles. Second and third prizes' of £100 and £50 respectively are also offered.

•Mir Waltoi'houise will preach tomorroAV' evening at the Church of Cftirist). His Subject will deal with the revelations of spiritism 1.

In connection with the accident to Mr 11. 80. Cftiapman, of Tararui, it appears that :t was not due to,a collision but was 'caused by Mr Chapman swerving hia bicycle? so as to avoid a possible collision with another cyclist. The fall, we are informed, was the result o? a pure accident.

The Rev. T. Trestoail conducts both services at the Methodist. Church tomorrow, and at Matatclke in the afternoon. His chosen subjects are "Gift for Service," "Search the iSicriptures," and ''Who are the Saints?" respectively. These are all matters well worth consideration.

SpLudid indications of petroleum have ibeeai found on a. farm at New Plymouth. The farm manager noticed a smell of petroleum when removing poste, and upon a pit Itoeting sunk a consklfiiralble quantity of petroleum w!as noticed o.n top of the water in it, and a strong' smell of petroleum waa given off. The discovery is likely to prove a valuable one 1.

B,sv. James Milne, M.A., preaches at (Sit. James' Presbyterian Church ait 11 ai.m. cm 'Waiting upon God," and at 6.30 p.m. en "Christian TJterature," also at Tararu at 3 j*n. Alt. all the. services Mir Mlilne will r'eiad the pastoral le-tter pi the Rlt. Eev. the .Moderator of the General Assembly re "Th-3 Outlook," the pulblioation of tha Presbyterian Chur'th.

Turnip areas are bringing .bio; prices down South, realismg 1 as high as £10 per acre. One man on the land, wiho i'arcny just under one hundred acresl, estimates his r'eiv'ermie for tho year, for cows and turnips, at fully £.1000. He must ibe a first-class farmer, practical, industrious, and pr'ogretesivei, and his land must to all right.

In the annual report of the Southland Education Board the following appears: "Parents and guairdians should note that there isj now no provision whatever whereby a child may absent himyelf from school on any one day of the week as the laiw previously allowed. The increased stringency of the' Act in thia respect will undoubtedly resnilt in increased efficiency."

Starting from the bottom rung of the ladder, in fact almost penniless after two months' search for employment', a Gisborne 'boy entei'etl extensive shipbxiilding yartlls,' in San Francisco. Hte was told to pick up bolts and scrap iron. It Was the 'bottom rung' —'bait it was given as a test. He had no other work to do, and he did it. To-day this Gisibomite has earned the well-earned diistincition of being the treasurei" and st'cretaiy of that big institution, with but one man alidad of him- —the president.

A JNTapier clergyman kept a large uongrtgatioii interested in a discourse which lasted over an hour, having chosen aa his subject, "Which in the Best Qmroh " Tho preaaher took a veiy broad view of all the existing

churches, none oi wliidh lie considered perfect, but all of which oontained more or less of the true spirit of Christianity. He summed up by expressing his firm conviction' that sootneir or later the various divisions will become a, united whole, and form one- grand Reformed! Clhuroh, founded, ag of old, on the simple teaching of the New Testament.

1 A constant End geinerally unexplained query is, why men do not g|o to cQmrcli? A clergyman down .South, di«Jussedi the problem in a recent sermon, iv which he at'rived at the conclusion that it is not because men ara naturally irreligious, but they frequently meet in ibushiiwss other men .who they knowl to be a, long way from wha-t they profess to be, amd, as a rule, men "have no tickets" on a. man whose! lack of tfeimineness and sincerity is known to them. Example '.'.ftfu leads', reasoned the minister, but in this case not in the) direction desired

A recent nineting of .die NWiiwuiue Party at Lov/er Hutt was not without its little trouble^. The lecturer, Mr L. M. Isitt, in the midst pf his matter, wals intei'i'iiptenll by a. lady a.uditor, who, on ib?ing invited to come forward, walked on tho statre, sa,t. tin the table, and commenced to jnake a. speech. The chairnni.n (Rev. J, M!cOaw) interposiad, but the lady persisted 1, and was finally escorted to the back of tho haill w llience evleotually sho was assisted out by the, police. The lecturer continued without further intemiptic.i> except an a]ami of me.

In connection with the launching of the latest ] assemger-cargo Dreadi;ou;Jit, tho Olympic, which lias LetHi witiu-issod, per medium of tho ciivjnii'.tigrapli, lay nuitiy Thames resident.-;, tho following 1 particulars: m.iy jm-i.vo of int3~?s.t to our readers: In (liis vessel the "White Star Shipping Company lias beaten the world's previous records for tonnage, and achieved that which a feu- years l:ac\ would have seemed impossible. Tho Olympic v.":is launchi-d by JTarlaiul mid W.ili'o at TVlfa^t on October 20tli. 11l 10. Hor tonnage is 4*5,000 tons., lenpth PGOft, lias nine decks, a orew of GOO, <xirries 3000 f:is;iei!f,ers, and her ccst was £1,----500,000.