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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 86, 14 April 1888, Page 2

Referring to the proposal anent the Govproorship and Sir George Grey, an Auckland pape. sayes — '• Sir George has effectively put the 'kibosh' en the idiotic proposal to make him a puocess-r to Sir William Jervoie. A Wellington paper was at great pain3 to show that Sir George was in every way quit"* suited to the position, but the j-ollant old knight has shown oon« clasiv^ly, in a happy expression, and without tokiDg any paiCß al oil, that the position is uhsuited to him. ' What 1' exclaims the valiant old Tribune, 'after the part I bave taken in moulding the future policy of th s grand country, in securing that i's genius Bb*ll be Liberal, am I to be offered the position of a mere o<tga gentleman 1 1 thaok you, but lam not.' What, will the Wellington newspaper pay to this 1 What will My Lords Muttonhead and Verysopht eay to it ? What will Mr Raikes Bay to it? What o 1 servations will Her Most Grnciouß Majesty make upon it ? It is noteworthy (Mr Pyke writes from I Melbourne), that there are more than three J times the number of people. in Melbourne during the day as compared with the resident population. Mr Fit ..gibbon , nominally the town clerk, but virtually the governing regent of tbe Corporation of Melbourne, assured ms that the population of the city i& the daytime wai 200,000, and in the night only 60,000. Mtlbwne is, iu fact, an aggregation of cities ; aud - the suburbs mainly furnish the residences of the inhabitants. Everybody ieoidee in the suburbs if ha can, and eomotimes when he cannot, afford to do so. These suburbs stretch ont some six or fovea miles without, counting the country municipalities, which are continuous] and all of them sek to affiliate themaelve.*, in some one w*y or other, with the parent city, Thus Emorald Hill is South Melbourne, and Sindridge is Port Melbourne. But I am told there is a reason for this. The municipalities of Emerald Hill and Sandridge oould not float their loans, so tbey alered the names, and as '* something" conneotsd with Melbourne, their little bills were promptly accepted. MRS. PARTINGTON SAYS Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the human cistern ; but put your trust in Dr. Soule's American Hop . Bitters, whioh will cure general dilapidation costive habits, and all comic diseases. They saved Isaac from a severe ■ extraot of tripod fever. They aro tho ne plus unum of medicines. "Bsston Olole,"

In the course of his inaugural sermon at the Wesleyan Church, Newtown, yesterday morning (says the Pest of Monday) the Rev Joseph Berry, who succeeds the Rev. L. M. Isiiit, alluded to an advertisement which appeared in the iV. Z. Times of Saturday in the following terms :— " Rev. L. M. Isitt'n successor, feke Rev. Joseph Berry, one of the most eloquent and popular preaohers in the southern hemisphere, has arrived, and will preach in Wesley Ohuroh (Taranaki street) to-morrow (Sunday) evening. Service at 6:80. To secure seats come early, as a large attendance is expected," The rev. gentleman repudiated the terms in which he was described, and said that _he had not ijelt so much pained for a long time as he was by that advertisement, whioh, we understand, was inserted by one of the stewards without the sanction of his fellow-office bearers or either of the resident ministers. Mr Berry went on to say that if the advertisement represented the opinion passed on him by the church he had come to serve or the sort ; of work he wasexpected to do, he should sit i down in despair at the outset. In his i opinion it was no part .of a minister's business to be popular. " Well done, great and popular servant, " was not to be found in the New Testament, though "Well done, faithful servant," was,' and this was the standard which he had set for himself, A minister who had set out' in search of ' popularity had already lest his self respect, and'was on the down grade, at the bottom of ' which was the lowest hell. The Shih Pao, a Shanghai paper, says : — "A most horrible story has been received, and, if true, the speediest and most vigorous prosecution on the part of the authorities is is required to crush the evil. The information comes through official sources, transmitted from Honan to- T'ung Chou, and thence to all the different prefectures of China. It appears that on the 16th of the 7th moon the magistrate of the Yu district in Honan received a petition from a man named Li residing within his jurisdiction, setting forth that two of his children, a boy and a girl, had been brutally murdered and their bodies horribly mutilated. Upon re. oeipt of this intelligence the magistrate proceeded in person to examine the corpses and found that they actually bore marks oi having been most outrageously used ; the brains were all scooped out, and the heads were breken and crushed. It became evident that this fiendish crime was psrpetrated by some of the ' Diabolical Sect,' whose practioe it is to go about with the object of murdering ohildren and abstracting their brains to compound medicine with. It is well known that the members of this sect aot in the most secret and mysterious manner, and they move about from place to place under tihe disguise of merchants or travellers. Jn consequence of the disclosure of the above tragedy, the authorities arc everywhere on the alert, and are adopting the most stringent and vigorous measures to bring about the entire extinction of the sect,"