THE HAMILTON EAST LIBEL ACTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1344, 10 February 1881, Page 3

THE HAMILTON EAST LIBEL ACTION.

TO THE EDITOR. g IRj — In fcbe last issue of the Free Lance, under the heading of "Waikato Wrinkles," some evil-disposed and untruthful person states the great libel case is settled, the mischief-maker having apologised. Ihe whole statement is untiuofrom beginning to end. The case is not settled, nor is it likely to he so until it goes to the Supreme Court, when it is to Toe hoped that the true mischief-maker will be exposed, as ho justly deserves. I only know of one mischief-maker in the matter, and he has >>ot t/jwluffhcd. — I am, &c, F. OimramD. Hamilton, Feb. S, 1881.

Agricultural Implement.^ — The hillside plough (says the 3) une&m Herald,) recently perfected by measrs Reid and Grey is calculated to give satisfaction to both farmer and ploughman. It is very light and handy and simple in construction, and •will therefore not bo liable to get out of order. Its special advantage is that one lever shifts the coulter, mould board, and share, from light to left. Being very blow and not top heavy, the plough can be used either on hillside or flat land where 110 wa^or furrow is required, The firm are turning out two new sets of harrows, of new design and shape. The first is a flexible tripod harrow, with chilled hard points The harrows are coupled by steel links, which are much stronger than those used by English makers, aud. they consequently have the advantage of not being able to open out, owin,^ to the shape of the links. These harrows can be made to any width required. The second set is a new design of zig-zag iion harrows, which are coupled with clips and wedges, and there arc no holes to weaken the iron us>ed in the construction of tho harrows. They are also free from nuts and screws, which frequently get shaking loose in ordinary harrows. Mes&r.s Reid and Grey have obtained a patent for their new moulding machine, and can now make much better and cheaper oasts than they could formerly The firm are turning out reaping machines in large quantities. "Man Here awd Hereaiter." — The Rev W. H. H. Murray, in a lecture on " Man Here and Hereafter," delivered befors a large audience in the Musical Hall, Boston, one Sunday evening, thus defined his views of the final judgment : — " One cannot speak of death without thinking of what is called the judgment day. If the old-fashioned judgment-day is a Scriptural necessity, that is, if it is taught in tho Scriptures as a fact and nor as a figure, I should strive to accept it. But the difficulties which Such a theary occasion are apparent. Such, a judgment depends on a localised judge, and if locality has any ouch definition as wo give it here in our language, where (hall you find a locality large enough to accomadate the participants in the scene. The theory is that the whole earth is to be judged, judged in one spot, by one judge, in one day. Now, the population of the earth is 1,000,000,000, and a generation | dies every thirty years. In every thirty years then, 1,000,000,000 of human beings go out of the world, and 1,000,000000 come in. Forty yeara ago, the church, taught that the world was 6000 yearsold. She don't to-day pretend to guess within 100,000 years how old the world is. Very well, what has been the population of the world since, the race began ? Who can estimate the number? By what arithmetic shall you compute the swarming millions ? Take the globe, and flatten it into a vast plain, 24,000 miles by 24, and would it accommodate but a. fraction of the human beings that have lived upon its surface P Where is the locality of the judgment to be then? Can it have a locality P t My conception is that, instead of all hearts being brought to one judge in judgment, one judge and judgment are brought to all hearts. We are not translated ' into God's Kingdom,' where Hia ! throne, is set ttp like the throne of an Eastern potentate, but His kingdom is eitablisheji within,, ns,and Hia throne sot up in /our, consciences; and so judgment becomes universal, 1 becauso conscience ia universal, and emphatic as conscience