LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 75, 27 February 1884, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Wesleyan Tea Meeting on Mon» day evening, the Key. Mr Worker men* ■ tioned that Sir William Fox had gone to Christchurch on a Temperance mission and would iikely go thence to Sydney; The incumbent of St. Matthewe,,Auck« 1 land, the Rev. Lloyd Keating, 'm the course of an eloquent sermon preached recently* based on the • apostolic benediction,'made the following remarks :—' We are often under a deep obligation to the public prints m that unflinchingly they give us as much against the infidelity of the present day.as for it. At all events, :if they are not distinctly, for us or against j us, they are for the most part impartial.' A terrible murder' ha3 b?en;committed m Lisburn, county Antrim! A man named DDohertyy y residing near the town, i m a state of unsound mind shot his sister-in-law deal and wounded his .wife. ; Doherty went out with a loaded gun., which he aimed at two girls who were j passing on the road to a factory. His ■ wife was able to divert bis aim, but was • herself hurt m th« struggle. Reloading the gun he fired at his sister-in-law,; killing her instantaneously^ He is now; m custody. An American says that railroad travel* ling m England possesses .many advant-; ages. When you arrive at th 6 station a : porter approaches, takes your satchel,' asks you wliere 'you are going,' whether i you have a ticket, shows you where to? buy it, escorts you to your train, puts your baggage m the rack, bows and re tires, and doesn't even look like he expected a shilling. Five minutes before the train starts,; the guard comes round and examines your ticket to see that you are m the right train and the right car. All the xiffidiaU beHave. as ,th? servants of the public* At if the Roman Cath6lic Ohuroti 1 m Christchurch a few days agol'^Tihe Rev. Father Ginafy. i preached m the strongest terms : , against,, the practice of allowing young girls' to' go out at night without their parents or any elder relative. He particularly sco.ngemued. l the practice of girls going out for walks alone or with young men at night, and declared thatsuch practices were destructive of modesty and virtue. Father Oinaty has frequently prohibited young women and girls from coining to, evening service at the church' unaccompaned by their parents or other relative m chargb of them. j At. the lasts.moeting of the Duke o£ Wellington- Gold Mining Company x the manager, Mr. Wilberfoss, expressed'^ «ni opinion that all the mining companies at Terawhiti would have to be wound up sooner or later,. and predicted a very hard -time m the immediate future for partici*' pators m these speculations. ■ Te Whiti snys the laws of Moses were 1 written on** atone, the Jaws of til rear Britain are engraved on steel, but the laws of New Zealand are .. impressed upon india-rubber, and may be stretched as the Government please. 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