LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTEIC TELEGRAPH.] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1341, 3 February 1881, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S NEWS. [BY ELECTEIC TELEGRAPH.] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Auckland, Last Night. Last night, at 8 o'clock, Major George's hay -stack was observed to be ou fire. It is not known how it originated. Major George was inspecting the hay at 5 o'clock, intending to hare it thre^ed afroah. Mr May, who formerly owned the property, had the hay insured, but it is not known if tho policy has expired. The stack, which was worth £60, has been quite destroyed. At a meeting of the Presbytery, the Rev. Mr Runcimau submitted a call from Mangare and Onehnnga to the Rev. Jas. Bruce, of Te Awamutu. It was signed by fifty-nine members and ninety-six adherents. White and Dunwood, Onehunga, and Jamaa Robertson, sen., Mangare, were heard in support of the call. Mr Runciuian moved that the call be sustained, which was agreed to. Upon the motion ot the Rev. Mr McCallum, Mr Evans was appointed to preach at Te Awamutu, and the congregation was ordered to appear before a special meeting of the Presbytery to be held on the 16th inst., in order to support their interest. It was also agreed that the united congregation, Onehunga and Mangere be also cited to appear.

Wellington, Last Night. Latest betting ; Material changes have teen made in the position of horses in the Wellington races. Norseman, who has just arrived, is much liked. Evens offered on Natitor, but refused. St. George also is being backed for the Cup. Luna and Bads worth, which were regarded as nonstarters, are now fanoied, and backed by their owners to win £800. The weather promises fine.

A nohbeb of the ruby shades at the Oamaru lighthouse have been recently broken. The North Otago Times says it is believed that the breakage haB been caused through birds flying against the glass at night. Mb Shanks, M.H.R. for Mataura, is of opinion that Southland is "reserved to death. Ho is in favour of the sale of every acre of educational reserve, and belioveH that a bill with that object in view will be passed next session. Jesuits and Primitive Methodists are the two opposite poles of religious thought, yet some of the expelled French Jesuits are poing to Fernando Po, one of the p incipal foreign mission stations of the Primitive Methodist Church. EXAMPUEb OF THE EMINENT BIIXD. Homer, O-sian, Milton, Blacklock, were poets. Sanderson, celebrated mathematician and Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, blind before one year old. buler, a mathematician. Huber, author of a work on the ' 'Habit of Bees. " M. Phefel, of Colmar, also a i oet; hin works fill six octavo volumes. Miss Franca* Brown, a poetess of considerable excellence. Hoi-, man travelled round the world. William Metcalf, builder of roads and bridges. John Metoalf of, Manchester, guide to those travelling through intricate roads by nitfht when covered with snow ; after-, wards a projector and surveyor of roads in difficult mountainous parts; most of the roads about the Peak, and near Buxton, were altered' by his dir3ction. Laura Bridgman could neither see, hear nor speak* yet she learned herself a sinner and Christ a Saviosr. Milbura was chaplain for.some time to the American Congress; also a writer, lecturer, and traveller, prescott was /, a famous historian; Goorich ah excellent writer for the young; Rev. 1 3i Crosse was Vicar ' of Bradford. John Gough, of Kendal, waH a famous mathematician/ and an aocurate botanwtendgQologkte ? Dr Moves, ' of Kirkcaldy, was an itinerant lecturer on .chemistry anl optics rthoujrhvblind. Lord Oranbo^,'blind frpm his childhood, published somryeaM ago a History of France for children. Giovpnni.Gam--bas~io became an' exc^tiew 'elottlptof.'' Zisca, the Bohemian 0 ff p'emrmed • great a<-fo of * niiUfery ' Talofir a^r the . Los« Of Ws algifK^JMftoi 1 Wmkhw fir