WESLEYAN METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 263, 13 February 1873, Page 6

WESLEYAN METHODIST CONFERENCE.

The ninteenth annual Conference of representatives of the Australasian, Church, has just concluded its session in Sydney. The" Rev, W. B. Boyce attended as ■representative from the parent Conference in England. The request for separate Colonial Conferences was grantedj; and arrangements were made for the sub-division of districts. The following is the final reading of the station sheet for the Middle Island : — Dunedin - Charles Rigg Port Chalmers Joseph T. Shaw, Invercargill - James A. Taylor. Lawrence - W. H. Beck Roxburgh - George Hewlitt Balclutha - Francis Isitt Christchurch - James Buller'and one from England St. Albana - A. Robertson Fitchetfc John Aldred Kaiapoi - - Rainsford Bayin Henry Bull Lyttleton - William J. Watkiu Springston - William KettU; Timaru - - William Lee Frederick Dewsbury Hokitika- - John Rishworth William B. Marten Greymouth - David M'Nicol Nelson - - Thomas Buddie William Canneli

Sabbath-breaking — First Scot — . " Wha has been hitting Sandy Jbnnson 1 ? He has gotten a wafu' bl,ack eye." Second Scot — "' Aye, aye, young Aleck an 1 me saw him coming along the road on last Sabbath-day whistling as happy like as if it had been the middle of the week, so we justthrashet him wee-l, but we did nae ken till after we had dun it, that he was only whistlin' for his dog." — " Fun," A man about thirty years of age has given himself up at Brussels owing to. remorse, as he said, stating that he was the accomplice of Traupmann in murdering the Kinck family. Two more companions, whom he would make known, dug the graves. Grus,tave Kinck was murdered a day after the rest ot the family, which was the reason that his body was found in a separate place. Kiuck, the father, was. murdered by Traupmann alone. The man declared also that, as an officer under the Commune, he commanded the men who shot the Archbishop of Paris and President Bonjean, and that he had received assistance from the International tince he came to Belgium. A doctor who examined the prisoner testified that he showed no signs oFTta-Huemation. The matter is being investigated. Blondin, of Niagara reputation, is about^to take a yoyaujo to the Antipodes-,, and his " private effects," enclosed in some forty packages, have been permitted by the Customs authorities' to be transhipped from the Guernsey steamer to a vessel about to sail forAdelaide. A Touching Incident. — The other day a father and son were dressing ahog, the father doing the chopping. By a mistake, instead of splitting the hog open he split his son's hand. la explanation of how it happened to the doctor, the father exclaimed : " I cannot tell a lie, doctor, indeed I cannot. I did it with my little hatchet." ' The son was greatly moved, and was heard , " to remark that he " had rather - have- 1 * such a father than a whole slaughterhouse full of dead hogs," "The Christain World" says:— " We can safely recommend a graduate of a newspaper office for almost any station of life, at least for all wha require a very good knowledge of the peculiarities and characteristics of the. human family. A man who can preserve the serenity of his temper, the. sweetness of a Christian disposition, and an unflagging perseverance amid, all the obstacles and difficulties which newspaper publication present, deserves to be ranked with Job for patience* Baxter for goodness, and the Iron Duke for nerve, power, and obstinate determination.' A terrible tragedy was enacted at 42 Pine street, New York, on Nov. 18, just outside the office of Judge Sutherland. The testimony in a suit for. ; divorce by Mrs. King from her husband, James C. King, a lawyer of 142 East-Seventh street, was being taken ; before Judge. Sutherland, and A.C. ! O ! Neil,a detective on the Erie Railroad, and his wife were the witnesses. It said that .the evidence of both showed very brutal conduct on the part of King toward his wife. After the case was adjourned O'Neil left the office and started down stairs, King followed, several steps behind, and when O'Neil had reached the second floor landing, King drew a pistol and fired threft shots in rapid succession. The first* struck his victim in the small of the, back, and must have caused him to turn round facing the murderer, as the fatal bullet entered the right breast' below the collar bone. O'Neil then walked steadily into the office pf Mr. Quick, on the second floor, when he sat down in a chair and in about half^ an hour breathed his lasl. A facetious traveller thus describes-, the difference between society in* the metropolis and that in a provincial; 1 ' town ;—"; — " In the country, if you have a boiled leg of mutton for dinner, everybody wishes to know whether you have, caper sauce with it ; whereas in London, you may have an elephant for lun6b, and uo one cares a pin about it."