TOWN EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9834, 6 August 1900, Page 8

TOWN EDITION.

Captain Edwin wired at 1.25 to-day :— *■• North-east to north and west gale after 16 hours from now; tides high; heavy •ssja, and much rain. , '" The matron of the Hospital thankfully acknowledges parcels of old lmen from Mrs Duncan, Mr Eagleton, and A JSWend." After proceeding about one and a / quarter miles aloog the new Patea road this morning Mr Rymer's coach had to return, owing to the flooded state of the .Tiver, and take the long route. The following is the reading of the river report at 9 a.m. this morning:— Waipukurau, Tuki Tuki, moderate; Waipawa, Waipawa, low; Maraekakaho, Ngaruroro, moderately high, nsmg lasTowly. Meanee is advancing. Residents will -shortly have the convenience of a telephone bureau. The local staff of hnemen have the work in hand, and the line jwill be completed at an early date. The hospital returns for the week just closed are as follows :—ln at last date, 19 males, 17 females ; admitted during the week, 4 males, 6 females; discharged, 2 males, 3 females; remaining at date, 21 males, 20 females. The attention of those interested in stock is called to Messrs Williams and Kettle's sale at Waipawa to-morrow, when they will offer a yarding of very attractive beef and store cattle, also a good line of sheep. At nine o'clock this morning the thermometer readings at the places mentioned were as follows : — Russell 55, Auckland 60, Gisborne 57, Spit 56, Wanganui 54, Wellington 55, Christchurch 53, Bealey4l, Dunedin 55, InvercargiU -Qβ, Bluff 46. The reading in Napier at 2 p.m. was 59 in the shade. • The Wesleyan Church was well filled laet night when the Rev. W. G. Parsonson preached an eloquent, interesting, ,and instiuctive sermon from the text "They shall speak of the glory of Thy kingdom and talk of Thy power" (Psalm .145, 11th verse) in continuation of his ■"Beview of the Century." The preacher %_aid the century had been a remarkable one in the way of explorations, which had been facilitated by the great improvements made in machinery, making travelling faster and safer than in olden days. This had accounted in no small mv for the extensive discoveries made, «o that Dow only a comparatively small part of the world remained unexplored, in Africa, some portions of America, Thibet, Manchuria, and a portion of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. iThe art of printing, which had been greatly improved in the early part of this -p-riod had, said Mr Parsonsou, been the means of educating aud converting the natives of these unknown lands. One .good result that had come about from the explorations and teachings of Stanley, Dr. Livingstone, and other in Africa was the abolition of slavery. Continuing he jdealt separately with the exploration of Mongolia, Thibet, Australia, New Zealand, U'e Antarctic, and the work done by the Rev. Mr Marsden in the South Sea Islands, and went on to show how the influence of civilised nations, upon the uncivilised peoples of the world impressed them, and illustrated China and Japan as having begun a new era as the result of the exchange of western science sand western civilisation.