All Atlantic Voyage.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3362, 16 November 1889, Page 2

All Atlantic Voyage.

The last voyage of the Cunard Royal Mail steamer Umbria from New York to Queenstown was full of exciting incidents. The day taking her doparture from Sandy' Hook one of the saloon passengers, Mr F, Toole, left the promenado deck just before five in the afternoon, and proceeded to his state room, where ho stood before a looking glass and deliberately cut his throat across with a razor. The iutal and self-inflicted wound was not deep enough to cause instantaneous death, and the unfortunate man lingered till next day, when he expired. All that medical skill could do for the man was done by tlio surgeon of the ship. The deceased was aged about B5 years, and belonged to London, where he leaves a wife and two children The cause of the rash act could not bo ascertained. Two ~ days had scarcely elapsed when the jfa death of an intermediate passenger fir named Patrick Moran was announced. ■ However, it was learned that he had died from natural causes, from that much dreaded disease consumption. Both bodies were buried at sea,-. Following these two incidents i\& quick succession, three births oc-\ curred amongst the intermediate and steerage passengers, and from bulletins issued the trio and their j. respective mothers are doing well. / The babes aro named respectively, •' "North," "Atlantic," "Ocean." / Whilst all this going on there was / in a secluded part of the ship, in irons,/ Peter Lynch, the British seaman whri was cu route to London under an extradition warrant to take his trial fVir the murder of Alexander Hertz, late lirst mate of the Liverpool steamer, Charles Moreland. Tlio prisoner/ is a rugged looking little man, and] is aged 21 years. It is alleged that? he attacked Hertz aboard the ship na/ned whilst oil' Manzanilla, on July M last, with it sheath knife, and ir/ilioted serious wounds on him about the abdomen, head, and chest, from tbo effects of which he died eight days afterwards. The Lime Kiln Club. V--When the meeting had been callMJ to order and several of the window? lowered from the top to let out the odor of burning wool, caused by Elder Toots netting his back too near the hot stove, Brother Gardner arose and said : ! ' Wo hev begun do twelfth yar of de oxistence of dis cluh, an' it ar' an appropriate time for'figgorin 1 up what we hev accomplished as an organisation. Ihcvnuidealcttlccalkerlation, which I will purcccd to read: ! 'Wo hev improved do moral status j of tie cull'd race in America 52 per j cent. \ 'We hev reformed upwards of | : (estimated) 50,000 pnssons who war" | addicted to de use of intoxicatin' '■ drinks, ' We hev converted upwards of (estimated) 1,000,000 pnssons to do science of hygienne an' sanitary regulaslmns, 'Twelve years ago 3,000,000 dogs owned by cull'd pussons waa' allowed to .sleep under de bed. To-day t& number is estimated at less dan 100: •When disclnb was organised do loss of chickens in de United States by midnight evaporashun was lated at 10,000 pei night fur ebery night in dey'ar, At dis date it will not average fifty.

J ' Twelve yours a»o no cull'd pusson ill (lis linll kciUry felt any moral olilijjasliun w!hmi in do presence of a watermcllyou. At de present time, do said mellyon, lias to he do biggest an' de ripest sort, an' to bold out actual iiicourugeimmt to be tookau in, befo.' 'a cull'd man kin be tempted. 'ln seventeen dill'erent slates dig club lias taken precodemw ot tbo regular legislatures, an' its purcccdings nr' rend an' lionore wid fur mo' interest. 'ln many localities do Limn Kiln Club is considered the superior of Congress, an' our reports on agriculture, fishin' poussuni huntin* an' astronomy ar' ucccptccl nsstauilard by a large majority. \ 'Wo hov inducted do speeri<s>f economy an' thrift into (estimated) 1,000,000 bosoms, adding to de capital of dc keutry at least 875,000,000 per y'ar. < Twelve y'ais ago de best educated cull'd man in dis keutry, couldnt 1 toll a six shilling 1 chrome- from a s2,6oO'*A paintin,. Atde present dato de same kin be told six miles oil'.

1 Eben up to seben y'ai-3 ago cull'd pusson in (lis kentry bud any idea of Sjmvitasliun, astronomy, or" medical science. To-day 0,000,000 of out race know why n grimlstnn falls to the ground when do point is up in dt f air, Altnos' oky man, woman a/;' y child keeps trail of do moon's infuses an' knows the son's distanco/from de earth. Do cause an' efl'eclfc of chilblains is now commony knowledge, an' de cull'd man who/gets a wlmck in dcoye knows all about tic virclicws of fresh beef as a remjedy, 'To sum up, we Wev made a. record of which eberymero/ner of the Club may justly feel proud/an' wo hev hwuwtly aimed de righA to inscribe ofkiw banner: Sic Sfjmpcr Tnmr. Engfeh Dissenters. l\\ lay.ing the memorial stone at some Methodist New Connexion schools itt Birmingham the other day, Mr Chamberlain made some forcible remarksjin regard to lb infh.once that Diascntevs had had in l-ejjavd to the spread of national education, It was, he mi, an especial feature of iuethodisiV in all its branches that it had been\ enabled to wield a groat influence river the pcoplo amongst *»>. whom it had been brought. He thought he bight congratulate them

jfljliat their work would bo carried on limler conditions more favorable than those under which it had been Ciirriod on by their predecessors. They very often hud to do their work under great contumely and obloquy, and frequently under persecution. On the other hand, they of the present generation were certain of a largo amount of sympathy and support, It was true that as Dissenters they were still somewhat handicapped -A in the race, and that there was one religious sect which enjoyed the patronage of the State and which was in possession of endowments and privileges denied to the other sect. ilut ho was not certain that those privileges and endowments ware unmixed advantages, and he had always held that the Church of England would gain if she abandoned them, rested upon voluntary support, and did '#hout the assistance of the State. Ho believed that public opinion, if slowly, was still surely! tending in this direction. But if there was still a privileged Church ho was gliul to believe that it was no longer, except in such rare exceptions nkastobc quite uncommon, a perserenting Church, and they would find amongst the best and ablest and most intelligent of its ministers and laymen a hearty welcome. They would find that they were glad of cooperation, and that oven in the great held which wis open for religious work they were ready to wclcome all that would contribute any The spread of national education, the spirit of greater toleration amongst all the Churches, were largely due to the influence and the spread of what lie might call Nonconformist principles Dissent had played a great part in the history of this country, and none of us had cause to bo ashamed of the name of Dissenters. We owe our ideas ot political freedom, of civil and religious liberty, our hatred of every, thing in the nature of arbitrary power-we and the kindred nations who owned this as their Mother . Country—to the efforts and the doctrines preached by those Puritan ancestors who loved freedom here, who fought for freedom and suffered for it, and who carried their love for to the far countrios across the waters, where tlity laid tho foundations of new empires and a great republic.