LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1582, 24 August 1882, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Sale of Property. Auckland, Lust Night. Mr (xßEEN'wood held .v sale to day, but only the property of Mv MacCormic situate at Coronmuclel was sold. The property was purchased by Mr W. Aitken for £IGO over the mortgage and interest to date, that being £280.

Fire at Papakura. x The house of Mr Nellie near Papakura was burned to the ground during the absence of the inmates. As the dwelling was not insured, the total loss to Mr Nellie is £200. The fire was first observed by a man working in the vicinity, who reports that he heard two slight explosions caused probably by the ignition of some powder stored in the house. After the tire the footmarks of a man and a boy were observed in the vicinity, and Ml Nellie suspects a neigbour, with whom he had a quarrel, of being the perpetrator of the deed.

Wreck of a Schooner. Mr Oag has received a telegram from Gisborno this niorainpr stating that the schooner Waiwera, which left this port recently, laden with 1 Newcastle coal has gone ashore on the outer bar, and that she is badly damaged. The Waiwera is a schooner 42 tons register, built at Waiwera in 1875, and is at present owned by Messrs Goldie, Owen, and Company. She was under charter to Mr Craig, having on board a cargo of Newcastle coal, consigned to Mr Lask", of Gisborne. The cargo was uninsured, but a policy of £400 on the vessel is held in the South British. ? % « ft -

"(Edipus", "in the Melbourne Leader writes : — Tlie honors heaped upon the corpse of Charles ■ Darwin were no doubt very gratifying, "but they suggested melancholy reflections on the way in which the clergy and the aristocracy behaved towards him when alive. He was for a long time subjected to contumely, ostracism, and social martyrdom by the very classes who swelled the pageantry of his funeral. It is. curious to note the brief period of time .which, has elapsed since he was almost universally regarded as, the enemy of 1 religion," and -;the, libeller of all creation, and to compare the verdict of ten or twelve years ago with the way in which .the Reading , divines .vied with each other,, on the occasion of his death, in praising him as the, man, who had actually taught them 'tp^form a nobler estimate > bf^ihe , and providential power of the deifcyj,^han,they, n^d everimbioed m college prJiaulearaea from the f l teaching !o! of *;the moiSCeminent theologians'/ 1 ; *Tlie rmb&t>'cuisous < thing' about iihe change is , its suddenness. 5 There irnothiSg in the record of. miracu 1-'1 -' Jous convfersionsl T 6) compare with, tfhb ,rapidi,^r^ of !/,the* ; j\iff^||Qn/ of {E^ifwinism ,'OTer tlje< whoie^ciyilised world^-pnd the afcojad^, M the. facV.,that the , theory of evolution strikes a blow *t;thei , cherished ;Bejf;c6h^^ the' venembleideluiiioiis; iCnces^lj^etwMntMtflOTdsiof'.theACr^io^ 4tidjthebr\j|esinafoperwli, ** 4'i.\^Mr