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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3376, 3 December 1889, Page 2

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THE N.Z. EXHIBITION. Dunedin, December 2, The Exhibition to-day was very largely attended, the attendance being estimated at o*oßo, of whom 7003 paid for admission. Fifteen members of tho Victorian Legislature reached town this evening, and were taken to tho Exhibition by tho Executive Commissioner. All express themselves highly delighted with what they havo so far seen. Important to Local Bodies. Dunedin, December 2, A question with regard to the Charitable Aid £ct of interest to local bodies was argued before Mr Justice Williams in Banco to-day. The matter camo up on a motion on behalf of the Southland Hospital contributors for a mandamus to compel the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to pay an amount claimed for the maintenance of the hospital at luvercargill as a separate institution ; and the Committee claim from tho Board £2872 10s 2d, of which £IOOO is for additions to the building which the Board decline to pay, on the grouud that it is not maintenance. The argument was to a largo extent technical, many sections boing quoted to show tho senso in which the word maintenance is used. For the plaintiff it was argued that anything required for the existence of the institution was a necessary part of its maintoiiaucG, and for tho defendants it was contended that maintenance had reference only to the annually recurring expenses of an institution, and not to tho erection of new buildings or extension of old ones. Judgment was reserved, Civil Case Auckland December 2. D.'B, Richard, sbarebroker, was committed for trial to-day on another series of four; charges of uttering promissory notes, the total sum represented being f 90. The Puhipuhi Silver Mines. «• Wellington, Tuesday. Government have received a telegram from Auckland to tho offect that an assay of ore from the Puhipuhi silver mine mado at Wairoogomai Te Aroha gave at the rate of 26ozs to tho ton. Tho Minister of Lands considers it probable that this return is more correct than any othor that has been submitted. DEATH OF MR J. MILNE. . Auckland, December 2. A cab]e messago announces [the death of Mr John Milne, well known in'commercial circles in Auckland. He Joft'Auokland in April last qii a trip to England, ana 1 was returning when he died from pleurisy on the voyago between Melbourne and Sydney, Uis remains are ta bo brought (p Auckland for interniont. A daughter of Mr Milne's is married to the Rev Mr Sponcer, of Dunedin, Drowning Fatality. Auclund, December 2, Tlu'b afternoon nev/3 reached town of & sad drowning accident in the i harbour off Home Bay, Ponsouby, \ by which Mr F. Dufaur, of Gisbome, i and formerly of Auckland, lost his life. Mr Dufaur was on i visit to i his brothers, E, and P. Dufaur, this i morning. 'He with Ins brother,: Percy, saw that the yacht Maud'was ' drifting from her moorings off the ; bay, and Bet out from the beach in a : diugy to secure'the vessel, Avery h'eayy sea was running, there being a strong north-easterly 'gale', and as they reached thie MaAid a great wave broke in over the yacht ana) filled tho dingy, Which immediately . sank. Percy Dufaur clambered on board the yacht, but bis brother was swept away and was drowned, his body ■ being afterward washed np on the beach. Deceased was a widower, 41 jMofajje,

& Few Anecdotes.#ofrf* Scraoß.3. ' It is related of Oberlin, '.ho'frtmoiis pastor of the Bund do la Roche, that he would break oil in the midst of an exhortation and aak hia hearers if ho had spoken long enough. Borne- " v times the people would answer, "Go on, if yon please, father;" sometimes, 11 Yes, we think we have had enough for'the "present." Ho (lien-allowed .thorn to interposo without asking thei i question,)and to tell him ; they fejtft tiled...Something like this practice prevailed in England through'the seventeenth century. • Burnet, us Macaulay relates, " was often inter-' - rupted by the deep hum of audience, and when, after preaching out tho hour-glass, which in those _ days was part of the functions of the pulpit, lie held it up in his hand, tho congregation clamorously encouraged—him to go on tt ,-he sand hud run off • once mote," ihe tasto for sermons has not always .been encouraged by the authorities of either .Oburcli or State, Roscoo mentions a Pope who ordered that no sermon should a quarter of an hour in l'JpAccording toStrype,Elizabeth thougit ■ that three or four preachers to:.ft / county was a liberal allowance, and/"" that, as a rule, the reading of A J homily should suffice for the pep'?' I The world at largo is too'of* In |j tho mood of those young geLosw> who requested tho Florentine Arbothus to let them off on a certain holy- . day with as short; a. sermon nsijgl ■ could. Wheroupon his contented himself with these wordaki "To-day is the festival of St LaSHj rence, whos6 Jib I recounted last year.' Since'then nothing'new! has come, to light concerning hirii"."" any of you were not present at last' yeara's discourse, you can hear a|l, about it from thoae who were," ( * As might be expected, some of thi greatest preachers have set little Btore, by their gift. South held to be " tho least part of divine' worship." Bishop Andrews Baid of ! himself that" when ho proached twice a day at St Giles', he prated once.". Well might Sir Thomas Mflre> lament tho folly of those who had nothing to say, and yet would say. it. , Moro may he suspected of ai'Jk / liking for some who were undoulWw great pulpit orators at that | e,g,, Latimer, who sadly wanted for/ . j and—what was harder to bfijftssj effected wonders without it. flironoh the preaching of Latimer, Rw g Chancellor of the Exchequer begi u t 0 ~? receive conscience money—day,' £363 anothor, as appears the council hooks. . \ "Why don't you say a word t( your peoplp about stealing!" asked a Southern squire of a coloured preaobii. The reply was that "jt would throw 1 such a coldness oberde meeting." In 1 fact, the denunciation of a particular ; sin to men who cannot see its heinousness is no easy matter. The most hopeless case is when the pastor shares tho weakness of his flock; witness the Cornißh vicar j whoso congregation suddenly began to ] file out of church among divnJr" service, Ho guessed there was tiding , of a wreck, and shouted j'.' Stop! let'' r us all start fair," \ I Somebody remarked that the \ f pulpitoSered every possible advantage | that a pleader could desire, as the , best of causes, an audience disposed . to be favourable, and immunity from j reply. For all that, as Sydney Sniithj j well put it, •" the cry fall of a book, the most trafefri occurrence, in sufficient to dis'sifti religious thought and to introditaja moro willing train of ideas; a Bparrow fluttering about the church is an ! antagonist whom tho most profound 1 theologian in fiuropo is wholly uwAft ) to overcome." Preaching was aurf j lowest ebb among us when he wr# 1 this. ■ **: 1 Franklin, being bored with the ) repetition of graco at meal times, ? suggested to his father that grace 1 should bo said, once for all,' over each 1 stock of provisions as it was laid in,' - " A prime duty of the preacher in all i ages has been to stir up the charity of i the faithful in tho narrow, pecuniary, J but not altogother-to-bo-neglected i sense of the word charity, Tradition ■ has it that Swift onco confined a din--2 courso of that class to a single sentence. ! Tho text was taken from Proverbs ! xix, IT: "He that hath pity upon tho r poor loudeth unto tho \ Lord," Tho - exposition began and ended with these f words: " If you approve the security t down with your dust." A man once ■ wroto anonymously to llowland Hill,. t saying ho was insolvent, and thererOTO ) in doubt as to whether ho could i conscientiously contribute towards tho f collection, Would tho Minister fjtfty'' I an opinion next Sunday! Having read out the letter, Hill declared that tho writer certainly could not put anything into the plato, " And now," ho concluded "l- strongly advise everyono else who can to contribute , or his neighbors will infalliably win's, per, "That is tho bankrupt," At the 1 Citv Temple, on Christmas morning 1877, DrParkor told his congregation that he should himself put two sovereign in the plate—an effective bit of exhortation in its way, arid not without scriptural warrant, but obviously to bo used with caution, The First Piano in Taranaki, A writer in tho Canterbury Press gives tho following amusing account of the'first piano introduced into this settlement: ' The writer well remembers seeing a party of Maoris, under the directions of the RevMrWdpn, shoulder a full sized cottage piamfin New Plymouth about tho year 1816, and they carried it in safely, all that journey to Waimati, on their RhoHlcjera, It was wrapped up and slung upon poles, which were carried somewhat in the style of an oldfashioned litter, but when we rememiji her the road and that, in many places, it appeared impossible for men to movp in Qtfier form than singlo file, the labour and patiencn required h\ such op undertaking seem very great, White men wouid hardly accomplish such a task, except upou compulsion, or "on the touch of the garao" assome of them expressed themselves, Thhi memorable was the 6rst iustru, mont of its kind to reach" the province of Taranaki, if we except a jangling, tin pot old thing out of which no music could ovor come, nor could any nerves he found to bear its hideous squeaking melody. Yes, this piano was, I believe, the first to reach the settlement, and after such a journey it deserves 4 slot's'»»llio. tempkof fame, especially as it was impdjwd by a' family as well known ay'tho lfursthouses, It was tli'o property of Mr C. W. Hursthousoto 'father, or perhaps I should say his mother, Possibly, Mr Charles Wilson Hu'rsthouse js' less known in your island than his brother Richmond,' howevor tjpit rjjay be,'families'should not ' distinguish thjnjselyea in colpni'sj history if they do not wanf'to jfla their rianieß mentioned in our great papers. If tboy had not' brought a piano out -in the, early days of the colony, I 'would not have' mentioned it, or pe'rha'cs them, just here," •S