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Marlborough Express, Volume XIV, Issue 1120, 29 March 1879, Page 6

The Rev. T (J. Ckrr of the Wesley a a Church, Balclutha, preached his farewell sermon, there, on Sunday last, choosing for his text, Revelations 11 v. 7, “He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Mr Carr at the close intimated that it was the last Sabbath morning, for some time at least that he should have the pleasure of addressing that congregation. He intimated that he had intended to have been with them until 23rd instant, but owing to the awkward departure of the steamboats, he was compelled to leave before Sabbath next. He reviewed his three years sojourn in Balclutha as a time of great pleasure, and which he should often recall to mind when awav. He hearily thanked his congregation for their unremitting kindness, and some, especially, to whom he owed much for their many favors. Mr Carr leaves Balclutha on Thursday,, en route for Auckland, thence, to Blenheim, where he is to labour for a season. The Rev. Joseph Newman Buttle, now of Kumara has been appointed to Balclutha. Mr and Mrs Carr, during their stay in Balclutha, have made ajvery large circle of friends, and carry with them the best wishes of the entire community for their future welfare. Mrs Carr has been absent from Balclutha for some time past, otherwise Mr Carr’s departure would not have been qnite so hurried, as in order to take Mrs Carr with him he has to go round by Auckland. It is a pity the departne is so hurried, otherwise we are sure a public _ recognition of that gentleman’s services, and his exalted position in the public estimation would have been pourtrayed, which we trust may yet be done before he leaves the district. His sncceasor Mr Buttle, enters on his charge on the second Sabbath in April, and during the interim the Rev. Mr South of Dunedin will officiate. Bruce Herald.

Awkward Position.— On Saturday last a Tokomairiro farmer while riding along the road to his residence met with an ugly accident. His horse fell into a ditch. The farmer, whose name is Alison, had his feet in the stirrupirons and one leg underneath the animal. The horse was unable to extricate itself from the position into which it had fallen, and every plunge it made was agony to the rider. No one was within hail to give assistance, and Ali-on was driven to the extreme of cut ing his horse’s throat with his pocket knife. He remained in the same disagreeable position, however, for four hours after the horse was dead before some passer-by released him of the weight of the horse’s body. Strange to say, Alison was not injured after all.— Ashburton Herald Prom a gentleman who recently paid a visit to Waikawa, the Southland Times learns that there are about a dozen miners engaged in washing the beach sand for gold. Their earning vary from 12s to £1 per day. The ga es experienced some time ago cleared away the sand which had been worked, and brought up a fresh deposit to be operated upon. As all the availble water for washing purposes is at present utilised, there is no opportuniny for a large number of diggers being employed. The gold is exceeding fine, and there is considerable difficulty in saving it. In reference to Mr, Nelson’s recent purchase, “Augur” thus writes in the Australasian :Mr Martin Loughlin has sold the celebrated steeplechaser Lone Hand to Mr W. F. Nelsou, of Christchurch, New Zealand. The grand grey, sou of Panic and Bertha, will prove a perfect Triton amongst the New’ Zealand steeplechasers, but his new owner will do well to remember that he is a rather strange horse to ride, as he runs down his fences. Power the bushranger, (says the Gundagai Times.) 'who lies just now in Pentridge, confined to his bed with consumption, expresses his regret that he is not well enough to take part in the search for the Kelly’s. He speaks positively of his ability to run them to earth, if they have not left his old haunts on the ranges, and he states that the capturing of Edward Kelly would be with him a work of revenge, for to his treachery he persists in attributing his own capture. A full" pinion has been granted to twenty-four Communists in New Caledonia for their services against the insurgents there. Of the fifty-eight French Ecclesiastics of the Diocese of Lyons who died during the year 1878, thirty-one had passed the age of seventy years. Domicilary visits have been paid by the German police at Sarreguemines for the purpose of seizing busts of the French Republic executed in 1873 by workmen of Schneider’s porcelain factory. Gabriel Ibrahim, the last survivor of the Mameluke Corps formed in Egypt by Napoleon, has jnst died at Marseilles, where thirteen of that body were m issacred by the Royalist mob eleven days after the battle of Waterloo. He was eighty-four years of age. The kingdom of Burmah is at last to have a. paper. The king himself is to be the chief editor an 1 ’•roprietoi, and the royal penman threatens witn the penalty of death all his subjects who wdl not subscribe to his paper. The method is certainly novel io the way of “ working up ” circulation.— Exchange. English Firmer-’ Burdens. —At an agriculural meeting in Essex recen ly, one of the speakers, a farmer, read the following abstract of expenditure during the past year in conndction with a farm of 210 acres in gross, hut only 195 net, in Great Coggleshall:—Tithe, paid to the lay impropriator. £lO2 12s 61 ; ditto to the vicar, .£29 16s 2d ;poor rate, £4O 5s lOd ; sanitary rate, £ll 11s 3d; surveyor’s rate £7 2s; education, £4 ; and voluntary church rate, £2 2s ; which gave a total of .£'l97 9s 3d as outgoings, without including rent. He asked how they were likely to beat the foreigner when they were at such an expense as that ? Thp Government of The United States is trying a curious experiment in “ Indian policy.” It is transplanting a little colony of Indiana from Dakota to Hampton, in Virginia, where large buildings are being prepared for the reception, in the first instance, of some fifty hoys and half as many girls. The experiment at Hampton is said to be watched with interest in America. As one of the newspapers says, “It is well worth trying, viewed simply from an economical point of view; for while it costa the Government not less than 20,000d015. to kill an Indian, less than 200dols. year will suffice to educate him at Hampton”