GENERAL NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 16, 22 October 1874, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

-.-*. j* Manifestation! sewpjesv nowib; j^rilar io. Madrases have- diMoyew^S|^a«vM'^ia who nossease^ them with his perfOnnaaces-'-'Dotiießfia utensils jumtpplayf^^^ J i>r6ach/'a#3a^l^ offleapm^ifrbm^^tabl^lj^lJi^ .toe3ime*9£l»d#^ tical btcame believers alter w^tmlmgw miracle. ; ,Arr angementi havie the medium watched, i<3k that iiotjtiek^ •eiy shalles&^ -■• ■ Scab in the flocks of sheep ; belonging jta the natives onithe jeasA cpw^tf thelSoHh Island is proving a gi;eat .nuip^n^ to the Ewo^ 7 ,oTOer|i..m, th<*i -aeigHboihobd, whose, efforts to eradicate the di^ise 'are thereby ejriiirfely frWtr&teoV* . The"* *F i 6v**r*ry Bay Herald states that ah attempt will ,Dft made by the' -General G-overaUnti td>boy.np the 1 infected and boil tbem downvj ; ; - f ... J.| ■ . I)avid Kiricaid,- a resident pf Cjonnfl^rre (Victoria}, seems to be doopid t9 misiortune.^ About two yeaw'agb h^aa sbld out of his farm at Lovely Banks, got £un over by a' wagon,; broke ltiis t&igti^ artsht|d to take refuge in the . hbspit*aU' n Hisyliifibß were patched up, but on emerging from the institution Kinpaid fpuOd that, hi* *«|fe, family, and some other effects had, bieen appropriated by his man servant. Z -T^ico' he tried at the County Court to reepver his property minus Mrs Kincaid, but on each occasion he proved unsuccessful. .- Afew days since he was breaking in a young horse, when he received a kick ontheankl*^ ol the most. damaged of his limbjj, and, in consequenpe, pf f a eprainhad to return io the hospital, where hie now lies. ", The preiserit ;" revival" njovemeritui' Scotland has, . it seems given opportunity for much ; sdoffing among some of the yoimg members of the community.;.' One b*£t}b.eae benighted youths^ however, m*H;his matsh the other evening in a n^inister who was determined to utand rip nonsense. .': From theaccount given of. the^affair by '^cbrre* spondent of th« 3» it appears that tbe young .jnan in question at trie close of,. a revival gathering, stayed, behind to attend the " anxiou9 inqmrers'" meeting— not from any worthy mptivei but simply to find material for the amusement of himself and hia weociateß. With this ignoble end in view, he ansidusly inquired of one of the ministers! "Whether he^jpuM work a miracle or^not.". \ He had riot to wait long ior -a satistactofy reply, for the reverend gentleman, seizing him nrmly . by the shoulders, replied, '!** We, cannot.,work miracles,, but we can cast out d^vila," and, suiting the action te the word, v pitched his young friend bodily oulsidei; trie church door, which was immediately closed iahii face. . The . anxious : inquirer, disappeared rapidly in the darkness, leaving the minister entirely master of the situation, and ia not, likely again to joke with the Revivalists. ' ' ••'■* ". ;•' l ■•' " : A ■■ ' •.;--■'

One of the most stupendous, enterprises ever attempted by audacious man, writesthe Chicago Inter- Ocean* " is the \Con9truqtion of the Peruvian Railway, which- wttVcpri**** nect the Pacific Ocean -|vith the valley! of the -^.mazon*! This nineteenth . century I , is full of marvels in the way of what is called engineering science— -fuller, perhaps,^ of monumental works of that description than all the centuries which had gone (before* it since the fall of the Boman Empire. [Bat . neither the Suez Canal, which cuts! ( tbe narrow strip of sand that bas obstruct the commerce of the world fpr^'i^^y^di^tne Mount Cenis Tunnelthroagb the. Alps baa prebented such, appalling obstacieVas thode which confronted the builders of a railway at an elevatibn of 17^000 feet above the level of the sea*.* There is ; really,, no parallel to this triumph of B<3ientifio faith, and it is a matter, for a legitimate pitriotio pride: that the! men !whc>' nave eonceiyecl and are now. carrying ;orit the. wiprk should be otir countrymen; 'To -form" sothe faint idea of 'the -mechanical and riatutal difficulties whichthe construction of ! the traneaAdine raUway presents it riiay eufficetPfWy that 30 bridges, and viaducts, 8000 f *Mt in length, and 35 tunnels, 15,000 feet! in length were required in a 'single.lpctwty: 15 l?o grade the road, as far as completed/1 40,-0(H) cubic feet of rock arid earth had to be removed. The work, which was begun/in in 1670, had cost 'already abput ;33,ooo,o©O dollars* and will, probably; cost that much more. W,hen finished in 1876. . One of; its wonders is the great viaduct/ the higheist in the, world, which is ,380 feet ldn£, J and 300 feet in the centre. Theheights of the three iron pillars' which support it fife'respectively 166 feet, 183 feet; and 358 feet. From 8000 to 12,000 laborers j mostly Chilians and Coolies,:; are! wording on the road-day and night., a V r ;r iv'v^ ; Mr T. Gr. Hungerford writes from J0a!« lid's . River, calling in quiwtion a st^teMeat with reference to the Gj)vernrii*erit settlement thete in an article 1 upori'the distridt which appeared in our i6Bue*of the 1 lot inst. His/exceptionS are taken upon purely personal ground's/and jmAml)i^k*yJ&¥Jßji(m the (benefit; of bis own explanation,; togejther onr.Bympathy.in the^xtfem-BjM^^* ; ships. whicoy t according to bis^ own; accbtibt, geem to have made up the samtotal of hie coldnial experience;: -in^tiis that; only fresh fields and-pastares new- will Reward hini-for his unwearied &.eiierg*yi\ in the cause of Education and Settlement in i the Catlin's district. ; He writes :---He (tha .writer, of thearticle TO^pla^edof )^yßtbat a man , and bis Wife once settled there (the Government Settlement), but that 'either through want of energy or bad soil did not succeed; ' r am the party alluded to, arid being a well known faist; that the land in ** question ia of; ; a, et^nors qufthty. the. ; public of course* must,. comf sion. that lam without energy.! , But, Mr Editor, liriviteybtL or. -jSny other *|p^^t^,^li»~ visit my ailbtmeri^^^ < Seetbie^riahtity^ofling*^ single-handed, the snbitantiai: weatherboard house (iron roof ),; the broad i.acreß ; ,of beautiful English •grawe*i; J The.tbopßand and one h&dsbipsitba^^ piqneer.we^^ all my., provisions 1 (amounting to. .about , eeventy pounasYpwJra to, tne-jiyerriunHg, ! yotifvisfy >ms^lw*WW^*^STbetf a^ih^he '(ibeS wft&mM^s&) say g 'for the fi arte I> did; not kueeegd : -with the -.c^nqjd^*tflfalitiQi|o]^^ together 37 pupils, l^||j|^||pM^nu|^ ber r^qauM^w^ - : ! omßm&wM^m^m - to^umb|r*: rWh-#f:-th&fßl^tHtppwkel.lßpi,.--again. Take notice.-— I have never ahufc up the school, neither do I intend doing so.