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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 207, 19 September 1889, Page 2

The Stoke Charade Ccinpnny have afforded several evenings' enjoyment during the winter monfcbs by the^c popular performance^ and will come before tha public once ! more oa Friday night with two amusing ! t chnradee, The entertainment will conclude ' with a d*cc.>. Eioher tha excellent actlug Ot the object of ihj. enter ainment, whioh is ' to furnieb funds- for the aohool Christmas pionio, always suoceeda in drawing a full house, and no doubt suoh wiil be the oaeo on this occasion. The following is on exlraob from a letter ' received from Mr Tnomas Brenuan, the ' mining maaagr, by the Directors of ' the Wakacu Extended Q-.M. Company:— ( " Sin^e my last report wo have drivsn, a distance of 15 feet, making a total of 33 feet ' from where we opened on the reef. There ' is no important change in the size of thu ' reef, whioh continues much ihu eamo ac when I wrote last, but the efcouo proapcotß 1 much bottcr thnn any wo have had previously, 68 I can get gjld from any part of the face I wish t) tty. Some of the e u>no is ( honeycombed like ttiat taken out of the t winz?, and prospects quite as good. We are nob making as good headway aa I would . wish, as the reef, ia bad to shoot oa account, ]

of beifg sobanded. As the country about the reef becomes easier >t will get better defined end more workable than at present." The Royal Rink last evening was well patronised, especially by footballers. The Bijou Band was in attendance, and those present spent a very pleaßant evening, Labt evening at the Loyal Howard Lodge Bro. Gully P.P.G.M., read a highly interesting and instructive paper entitled " The valuation of Friendly Sooieties," a eubjeot highly interesting to all members of Friendly Societies. Mr Gully first spoke of the manner in which the value of Friendly Societies is effected, and the manner in whigh the tables of Bickness and mortality are compiled, and how they are I applied. The speaker alluded at some length to the necessity of valuations of Friendly Societies, bb being the only really effeotual means of ascertaining their financial position, and in conclusion he dealt with some of the principal objections raised against valuation, The leoture throughout was well delivered, and listened to with the the greatest attention. The meeting closed with a vote of thanks to Bro. Gully for his paper, Mr Goad delivered his second address last evening in the Theatre Royal, to a large ludience. Mr T. W. Glover presided, and .ntroduced the lecturer, who began, by alluding to the intemperance of the British Nation, more especially to the English in India, where he had a daughter working for the Salvation Army. He stated that the English Government had opened and licensed drinking dens there, and that Native priests who had tried to check their comrades had been arrested. The number of public houses in England, Mr Coad said, was amazingly large, over 185,000, and he pathetically alluded to the wretched and desolate homes the wives of drunkards had to live in and often die in, their deaths being frequently due to illtreatment or neglect from those whose duty it was to support them. Mr Coad is a very impressive lecturer, and by interspersing his addresses with many anecdotes, some pathetic, and some amusing, he keeps his audience interested throughout. To-night he will give another addiess ; to morrow afternoon lie will address the women of Nelson at .the Y.M.O.A. Hall, and in the evening willdeliver a lecture in the Theatre on Billy Bray the Cornish miner. To this a small admission fee will be charged. The usual weekly praotioe of the Harmonic Society will be held this evening, when the conductor hopes for a full attendance, as the concert is to be given very Bhortly. " Oivis " writes in the Otago Witness :— We all remember the pungent paragraphs on the eooleeiascioal intolerance of the skipper of the Kaikoura in refusing Dr Stuart permission to preaoti in hia ship. I believe I wrote aome of them myself. AH the way to England thia deep sea divine insisted on doing all thepublio preaching and praying himself, though he had a very eminent parson amongst his passengers. This seemed scandalous, and so said we all. But a story reaches me which goes to show that the captain of an ocean steamer may perhaps be right in distrusting the compe* tence of all long-shore parsons, at any rate in bad weather. A number of clergymen were returning from synod by sea, whether in a XJ.S.S. boat or not I decline to say. On Sunday there was service in the saloon, and one of the party was put up to preach. He began thus : " My brethren, as I was lying in my berth last night, thinking of the mighty ocean on whose bosom we are floating 1 , a beintiful thought came to me- — ." Then he stopped. A Budaen pallor overspread his fnce, and with a hurri d dive for the saloordoor he left to commune with the bounding deep. Then the bishop arose. "My friends," he simply said, " I think we had batter let our beauiiful thoughts digOßt." There was no collection, and the meeting immediately adjourned. TLig shows that the Kaikoura rale which makes marine theology a branch of navigation, and limits it to tno skipper m.iy be the right rule after all.