THE Thames Advertiser. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1874.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1806, 6 May 1874, Page 2

THE Thames Advertiser. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1874.

«■ ' The superintendents of the Grahamstown and Shortland Fire Brigades oajli received laßt night a cheque for £5 from Mr Marshall, draper, as an expression of his gratitude for their services at the fire, which prevented the fire fr«m spreading to his property. We are requested by the superintendents of the brigade! to thank Mr Marshall,for his donation. Mr Joseph Willhms, of the Provincial Hotel, who. was injured at the fire at Auckland, came down' by the ' Crown' yesterday. He is con- " siderably bruised on the,shoulders and back, and one of his arms is much injured, He waa on a verandah passing up buckets, when it gave way, and he fell to the ground, He was taken to the hospital, Yesterday afternoon the chimney of Mr Woolcock's boarding-house in Queen-street, Grahamstown, took fire. Superintendent Young and Beveral of the Firo Brigade promptly turned out, but happily their services were not required, as the fire extended no further than the chitunoy. The talented Claus-Rekcl Troupe, which ) comprises some of the finest violin playing ever 1 1 heard in the colonies, together with good, vocalists, will appear at Grakainßtown next Saturday and Monday evenings. "\ At a meeting.of the Waiotahi School Com- I mittee held last evening, Mrs Tresjonning was appointed teacher of needlework to the Thames School. Mr H. C. Lawlor was elected a member of the committee in room of Mr dribble. " Citizen" writes:—" To the Editor.—Sir, —Where it not for the well-known accuracy of your reports I should almost doubt the fact recorded in your issue of thU morning, that the Roman.Oatholie priest of this town should re- ' fuse to bury the body of poor Mc Aiiliffe, one of . their own congregation upon, as it.is said, the ■ paltry excuse that the unfortunate mari had not received the Easter Communion. Although a Protestant, I have for sometime past beoa disposed to support them in their efforts to obtain independent aid towards their schools, but after this bigotry I for one shall discountenance any proceeding they may take under the guise of " liberality ", and " religious tolerince," There is no donbt that we all in a Christian community feel overwhelmed with my proceeding that may be taken by our paßtors towards the lifeless body of a relative such as in McAuliffe's case where there are jrave reasons for it, but the reasons assigned in ;his every right-thinking man must detest. However, there is this consolation that the soul if the unfortunate man though taken without ■''' j moment's' warning returns to the who ;a?e it, just as the soul of those who refuse his Dody Christian burial will return. A match took place at Bllerslie race course yesterday, between Mr 0. Mc4ee'B oh colt Jolden Crown, and Mr Quintan's black mare Fair for £50 a-side, 9st up, 1| miles. ■ Che betting at the start'was 2to lon the 3rown, 'A good start was effected by. Mr iVoolfield, the mare getting, away slightly in tdvance, in -. which position they raced the vhole distance, the mare winning a splendid •ace by about a length, The:* was a large lumber of spectators on the ground.—Cross. It is calculated that New Zealand contains 16,000,000 acres of bush land of a mere or ess valuable character, of which Auckland joßsesses . Mr George Bennett met with a severe gun iccident on Monday. It appears that he was tut shooting with Mr Godkiu, of Drury, during he forenoon. The fowling-piece Mr Bennett lsed burst, injuring his left hand rather ieverely, the wrist was also injured. It will be no doubt interesting to most v of our ' ' readers, and especially to our Roman Catholic iriends, to learn that the Rev. Father tfynes, ricar-general and administrator of the diocese, received news by the ' Gyphrenea' of the safe arrival of his Lordship Bishop Crake at san Francisco, after a rather long passage, lingular to say, Lis Lordsip, in fulfilment of his. jarnest wish, set foot on the soil of San Fran-' jiscoonthe 17th of March, the great, festive day held by Irishmen in all parts of theworld. His Lordship at the date of writing—the 31st ultimo—was in the enjoyment of good health. His intention was to proceed to tape, after the arrival of the next mail from Auckland to carry out the great objects. of his visit to the old country.—Cross. The Bev. Gt. M. Gordon, writing in the Glwrch Missionary Intelligence, thus describes the reputed site of the.Tover of Babel:—A high mound is surmounted by a ruined and unSnished tower of brick, the summit of which ifi 235 feet above the plain. An examination of the mound shows that it. is composed of the jame elements as the mounds of Babylon—, masses of brick and rubbish, interspersed with oroken pottery. These bricks are all of them nscribed on one side with cuneiform characters, Che cuneiform is the ancient Assyrian, and ismpposedto betheoldesbwrittenlanguagein the' vorld. One side, where excavations having jeen made,, you may see walls of brick ascendng tier above tier with masterly ambition, mother, all is convulsion and overturned; yet io solid in their ruin that it is easier to pulverise lie brick than to separate it from the mortar. Jne of these blocks has rolled bodily to the foot, if. the mound. Others are fused or vitrified oy a process that can be none other than ilectricity or fire. Curiously enough, the Arabs lave a tradition that it ha 3 been destroyed by ire from Heaven, The sides of the mound are Merced with holes and strewn'with bones, which, plainly indicate the lairs of wild beasts. The view from the summit at sunrise is distant , Hid varied. The broad sheet- of Euphrates Kinds for many a mile, till lost in the distance in a ' sea-like' plain, It is difficult to resist the jonviction that Birs Nimrod is the Tower of Babe!, the oldest ruin in the world. There are those, who (like Mr Rich), believe it to be the Tower of Relus, and regard it as a part of the ruins of Babylon: but I prefer to hold to the older tradition. And surely it is when standing on ground like this that the language of -Scripture acquires a vividness and reality which rewards the toil of patient investigation, and make the privations of travel forgotten; and a a voice seems to breathe from the resting-place of the prophets besides these mighty rivers rthioh is daily more heard and felt, rebuking the sneers of the scoffer and sceptic In the Third District Court, San Francisco, William M. Neilson, well known iu the colony, has brought a suit a?ainst the agency of the Bulk of British North America, The complaint alleges that on the 21st of July, 18fl, the plaintiff delivered to the defendant for collection a promissory note- payable in San Franuisco for 1,2i0d01,, and drawn in, favour of , plaintiff by Messrs Collie, Stewart, and Co, of ; . San-Francisco.' On the 22nd of November, 1871, the plaintiff delivered to the defendant, another ! : promissory note for collection for 1,25)d01.,- ulso drawn in favour of Neilson by the same firm. Neilson says that in conseqaence of the negleot of the defendants to present the notes for collection the notes were not collected, and that he has in consequence lost the amount ofmoney contained m the notes, He asks'2,soo dol., damages in gold coin. ' '' .Now opened up, ex 'Hylton Castle,' fourteen , cases containing new dress goods,, joinery, straw goods, ribbons, feathers, flowKs, novelties in fancy wool goods, shawls, ruffles, collars, fe,irimotteddireotbyJ. ( IUBqH4Li.,-r| l Mft]