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Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 159, 5 July 1878, Page 2

p.m., between the United and Thorndon Football Clubs. The names of tbe United areBrown, Howe, T. Reid, F. Kitchen, Hooper, R. Scott, S. Scott, Atkinson, R. Kimble, Wratt, W. Wylie, Tandy, Keefe, Chatwin, and Costell ; emergencies — Wymond, Bennett, Fraser, and R. Reid. Thorndon— Gamble, Daneghue, Ramsey, Randall. Marks, Madely, Jones, Tuckwell, Couty, Rigg, Bonnington, Smith, Dowsett, and Cook. It has been suggested by the Mayor that the City Engineer should visit Lyttelton for the purpose of inspecting certain improved machinery in use there for wool-pressing, which it is thought desirable to introduce on the Queen's Wharf, vTeliington. It has not yet been decided whether Mr. Baird will go. The mail steamer Australia sailed from Auckland on the Ist May, at 2 p.m., and arrived at Honolulu on the 14th. Left same evening, arriving at San Francisco on the 22nd. The mails were forwarded to New York the following morning. She left San Francisco on the 10th June, and arrived at Honolulu on the 18th. Left Honolulu same evening at 9 p.m., and arrived at Auckland last night. The protracted passage from San Francisco t > Auckland is attributed to the vessel having a foul bottom. The time occupied during the whole passage, to and from San Francisco, was as under :— Auckland to Honolulu, 13 days 18 hours 45 minutes ; Honolulu to San Francisco, 7 days 13 hours ; say 21 days 8 hours. San Francisco to Honolulu, 9 days 22 hours 40 minutes; Honolulu to Auckland, 14 days 5 hours 20 minutes ; say 22 days 4 hours. We hear that the Hon. Colonel Whitmore, tbe Hon. Mr. Fisher, the Hon. Mr. Burns, Culonel Glover, Dr. Lemon, and others intend to leavefor Nelson and Wakapuaka to-morrow, in the Government steamer Hinemoa, in connection with the negotiations now pending between the Government and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company. This afternoon Mr. Finnimore offered for sale 90 sections in the township of Waverley. between Wanganui and Pa tea. The lots sold before we went to press realised from 2s to 16s per foot, Messrs. Roxburgh, F. J. Johns, and S. Brown being the chief purchasers. Some clergymen are very sensible and humane men. The other Sunday morning at Dunedin, Dr. Stuart at Knox Church announced that in consequence of the inclement state of the weather, and the discomfort which many of his hearears would be experiencing from the severe cold, he had determined not to detain them through a sermon, but would dismiss them after engaging in the usual service of prayer and song. This he accordingly did, and the congregation went home to "their am firesides" deeply grateful for the tender consideration of their pastor. During some of these " terribly wet and cold Sundays here Dr. Stuart's example is perhaps worthy of imitation. It is stated by the Register tbat so far as present appearances go, there will be more land put under crop in the Wairarapa district this year than any preceding year. To this will have to be added the area that will be cropped on the coast, which will be very considerable. It is an astonishing fact that Nelson is sending supplies of butter and eggs to the Wairarapa district. A rather plucky rescue from drowning was performed on Friday evening last (says the Western Star}. A lad named Campbell was in tbe act of stepping from the wharf to the steamer Oreti with a basket of loaves, when his foot slipped and he fell between the wharf and the steamer. The strong ebb tide soon carried him clear of the wharf, but not before Mr. Richardson, who was on tbe jetty at the time, had observed the accident, and coolly taking his watch out of his pocket and banding it to a bystander, he sprang from the end of the jetty and succeeded in getting hold of the boy. A boat immediately followed, and the two were saved, both being thoroughly exhausted. The boy Campbell, we learn from inquiries made at a late hour last evening, had nearly recovered from the effects of tho accident. We understand that this is not the first occasion in which Mr. Richardson has been the means of saving human life from drowning, and we very much misjudge public feeling in the matter if some tangible recognition is not made. Mr. Francis Sidoy will hold an extensive sale of valuable town and country freehold properties, at the Arcade, to-morrow afternoon, when various eligible sections, with and without houses thereon, will be offered. Full particulars will be found in our advertising columns. Forewarned -is Forearmed. — Lest the unwary should be caught in tha toils of certain tricksters, who are among the most unscrupulous in existence, mtico is hereby given that importations of bogus nostrums are being made, and counterfeit tonics offered for sale which are falsely alleged to eqaal or possess similar properties to Udolpho Wolfe's "Scktbdam Ahomatto Schnapps. May this caution prove serviceable. — [Advt.] A young man in the prime of life, full of vigor and high spirits, not heeding the dangers of the festive board, and the fashionable follies of modern social life, was suddenly found to be stri'-ken down by an attack of rheumatic gout of a very Sovere and dangerous character. His friends induced him to use the rheumatism and goutmixturesof Ghollah'b Great Indian Cures. A few bottles restored him to health, mastering the attack completely, and so rescuing a valuable life from destruction. See testimonials at the chemists'. — PAdvt.l