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A FIERY ORATOR.

Uodrogor v. Gladstone ' An Insult to Scotland. Dr James McGregor, "at-a church defence meeting in Colinton, Scotland, hag been speaking in a manner which ' proves that his visit to Australia has not tended to lessea his dislike for religious equality (says the Christian Leader), He " declared before God who made him" that Mr Gladstone's 1 recentstatementasto the simplicity \ of disestablishing the Scottishrchurch " ought to make the blood boil and rise to the cheek of every Scotsman." This, according to the fiery orator of ; St Cuthbert's, " was a" deliberate 1 insult to tho Scottish nation, which would never be forgiven or forgotten ! and the Scotsman would be an in- ' huoun being who would not resent it." 1 DrMocGregor furtlior characterised 1 Mr Gladstone's departure from former pledges as "one of the foulest pieces of foul play tho world had ! overseen," Tho emotional orator, whoso habit it is to paint with a big ' brush, rather thirn tho man of a judicial mind, is apparent in this wild 1 welter of objurgations, DrMacgregor » a-week earlier had spoken ol diseslabj lishmcnt as involving tho destruction 1 of the Church of Scotland ; bftjf 1 Colington he found it necessuMßt reply to tho trencliful criticism in tTe Edinburgh Evening Ditpalch, to 1 explain away that word, Of course, 1 he does not believe that his Church is so destitute of spiritual life that it would cease to exist were the paltry 1 pittance which it receives fim the State applied to Borne olhei• farposc, ' It would have been well, therefore,' had Dr MacGrcgor abstained' from ' using a term that seemed to imply ' such a deep distrust of tin vitality of ' the institution to which ho fe-;«o warmly attached, Dr Macgregor will do more to advance the cause ho has at heart if ho puts a guide upon his tongue, .

The Taranaki Herald Bays the session waa only of nlno weoks 1 duration. In ~W other parte o£the colony the length of ■. the sosston is bolioved to hare boon muoh longer. One of tho biggest women on record has died in Paris. She was known as ' the. "Phenomenal Female,'' her real name being VictorieTautin, and her age only nineteen. MdlkTautinwas'nota giantess in height, but her girth waa euormouß, and it took eight Btrong men to lift her out of her chair when she used to be conveyed for exhibition to a ' music hall. The individual who engaged her found that'she did not pay her expenses, owing to the cost entailediy her . transit to and from the cafe curuip-; go •Victorie retired from.public*lite and livedquietly with her parents. Lately alio had an attack of erysipelas, to.tf&n she Buccdmbed. Her funeral was%o event of the day in the suburban looality wherein she resided, and great interest was manifested by; the neighbors in watching'the preparations for the burial of the .poor-..'".Phenomenon,"- whoso remains were carried to' the hearse, and afterwards to the- grave,' on the ' shoulders of ten of t|io most robust niei in tl)e' emplty 'of tho'Comrlany ' o| Metropolitan Undertakers, '" 1 i

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3624, 26 September 1890, Page 2

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A FIERY ORATOR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3624, 26 September 1890, Page 2

A FIERY ORATOR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3624, 26 September 1890, Page 2

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