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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1270, 11 May 1883, Page 2

The next English and European Mail via San Francisco, will close at Reefton, on Tuesday, 15th May, at 6 a.m. Aawill be Been by our advertising columna, Mr Gilbert, dentist, will pay one of hia periodical visits to Reefton, on the 21st inst. The Bishop of Nelson will arrive in Reefton this evening, and will hold service in St. Stephen's Church, on Sunday next, morning and evening. Mails for the Australian Colonieß, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via Melbourne, will close at the Bluff per Rotomahana on Saturday, 12th May, at noon. Our correspondent at No Town telegraphs that Mr Wakefield's meeting jjpoKTfor an i hour and V naif, amf refutel all the charges brought against him, and at the conclusion a vote of confidence, was carried unanimously. His speech was loudly applauded throughout. Mr J. Nagle bootmaker, announces elsewhere that he has commenced business in Broadway with a large and entirely new stock of boots and shoes of the latest style and fashion. We wish our enterpising townsman every success in his new undertaking. Mr. Shaw held a meeting at Black's Point last evening, at which 32 of his Reefton supporters put in an appearance, swelling the number present to 58. Mr. Craig took the chair, and the candidate delivered an address of threequarters of an hour. Mr. Overend moved, "That Mr. Shaw was a fit and proper person to represent the constituency." This was seconded by Mr. Lynch, ■ when twelve Black's Point electors, with the Reefton attendants, responded to the call of the chairman. The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chair. The European Mail has the following : —"A large number of respectable but short-sighted people who lent their favour and gave their money to the mischievous burlesque of a religious movement called the Salvationists have come to their senses. The Earl of Shaftesbury has denounced the whole business in terms of the strongest reprobation. The clergy are. painfully aware now of the havoc this Bervice haa wrought among the humbler members of their congregations. The minds which are captivated to religion by' noise and the language of carnage, by the. symbols of murder and incendiarism, are ill-balanced, and the after-effect is as painful as the getting sober to a man or woman who has been drunk for a lengthened, period. There is hope that the worst is over. The funds are failing, and even the offer of 5 percent, here below and: salvation up above has not brought in the sinews of war to the General's satisfaction."