WOOL DESPATCH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4814, 14 January 1887, Page 3

WOOL DESPATCH.

REV. MRDOWIE'S FAITH-HEALING MISSION.

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Inveboaegill, Last night. Wool is being despatched from several stations in the interior by drays to Port Chalmers and the Bluff, as dictated by the distance from cither port. The railway may be said to have, to a great extent, lost the carrying of this season's clip. The reason assigned is that there are many teams idle, which during the winter season are employed at contracts -ploughing, whose owners are very glad to work them at very low rates. The roads, moreover are, in consequence of. dry weather, in splendid condition, while the feed can be had along tho route at cheap rates. The Eev. Mr Dowie concluded his faithhealing mission last night. A lady, the wife of tho resident Baptist minister, who testified to having been cured of a bad knee, the result of accident, and of an internal malady, from which she had. been suffering twenty-two years. It was stated that nine others had been healed of various ailments. Mr Dowie, in a letter to the Pre6s, declined, to meet the Rev. Mr Gordon in public debate on the merits of the faithHe apologised last night for having imputed whiskey to Mr Deverill, who had asked him when he intended to visit the Hospital. MrDeverill had placed the matter in the hands of a solicitor Mr J. M'Allister, but the Rev. Mr Dowie declared his apology was only made from a sheer sense of duty. With reference to the use of the expression lying scoundrel, applied to a boy who said Mr Dowie's remarks were all bounce, the healer admitted that he was unduly. angry, but said some excuse should be made for a minister, who was interrupted at a time, when he was defending that which was -dearer than life. The Rev. Mr Dowie returns from Queenßtown in a day or two, -* and then goes North.