ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 98, 14 August 1876, Page 3

ALL ROUND THE WORLD.

The Rev. Win. Maedonald says the present Assembly was composed of alt Protestant denominations, antt ttas divided into two committee*—one on the *Md Testament, and one on the N'ew. The Old Testament Committee had had great ililtioulty with the natural history of the Bible, the names t>t' many of it* animals boing very ditKcult to trace to. their ffvbfow t»c flreek source. The Xew TustHnienfc Committee were also, nnteh confused over the word "hell." Some wore desirous* of striking it mit altogether and substituting for it the (rreek name tfudos, <>v the Hebrew title Oehenna, ami on one occasion a gvitn joke was per(nitrated uneonseionsty by the chairman asking those who were for hell t<> nut np tltwir hands, when about thirty did so. Am an instance of Colonial youthful prewxrity, we ('" Cromwell Arsjru* "> may re(iwit a story told us to the effect that the utluir day, at Teviot, a youthful couple worn joined in the bonds of matrimony, tint united age* of the loving pair scarcely roiiuhing thirty years. The bride is said tn have justs turned her thirteenth year. At Bfnneatirft the other day fourteen nwsona were drinking in the parlor of the wluto Korse Inn, when the entire floor of tliu room in which they were sitting gave f ' precipitating 'he whole of the etunwny, together With tablet chairs, jugs, |li(l glasses,, into the cellar, distance of llwut eight feet. No one was injured. Ait English clergyman—the Vicar of Cunsington-—has a spice of sarcasm in his Jlii'istian composition. In an address to Jib female candidates he was present for mifirutation, he suggested to them the wprietyof so arranging their hair that Im Bishop might " R,HAf.r.Y lay his hands iimn their heads. iV md perversion of justice is occurring i Spain. A British subject,, floury I'ratt, :i»sorvott eleven years' penal servitude, lis time expired two years ago-, and tive tensive Spanish. Mi Uters have deliU'od him free, bub neglected to sign his npci's, and lie has just been moved from lulilla to Ceuta,. still a prisoner,, having irvttd to years beyond his allotted tiiuo. ".Egles" writes :-'*On Sunday last at t'iinlu<mal'le church, in w fashionable Imrb, a fashionably preacher disported insiilf in some singularly lofty Utght* of liny, Once when amongst the top-ropes itltus fipoHtrophised a certain passage of Iripfcure, '* iSuruly the pen with which it was written must have fallen from the m; of arv angel." An elderly listener. iH«6 appearance was the embodiment of Veronce, muttered, .Wfc> /we, ** Must N lieen moulting." Perfect gvavity P not ri-stored to that pew until its hunts were bnnight face to face with, the pi reality of the collecting plate.