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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 662, 28 March 1879, Page 2

We have had quite, s oven more than enough of eccentric preachers ;ind - - preaching in the Colony, and trust that s we have seen the end of them and it, s now most of the wonder-working divines have taken their departure. '' But the pulpit in England appears to be '" out-Heroding Herod. An English, cors respondent writing to the Wellington s Chronicle says : — " If my Lord Beacons- ,, field had .any great liking for pulpit 8 praise he might have had enough of it B had he been a worshipper at St. .Silas's « Church, Manchester, where the Rev. Richard Butler has been preaching from 3 the text, *' What shall be unto the man 1 % whom the king delighteth to honour 1" f in which sermon he drew a parallel be--3 tween Mofdecai, Joseph, and Lord a Beaconsfield. The reverend gentleman a enumerated the great services and cor- ~\ responding honours of the noble lord, j referring to him as having been " raised * to the dignity of a Knight of the most 3 noble Order of the Gaiter, and to the 3 position of Premier, and all this no i« doubt through a blessing from above ; ». for as God blessed Joseph, Premier of Egypt, so He had blessed tin's extraordi- ]■ nary man, who was the highest of them " all — higher than Joseph, and higher } thaa Mordecai." This devoted clergj'--3 man "hoped that in addition to the 3 honours Lord Beaconsfield had received, , and in addition to the heart of England that loved him arid beat for him, a splendid golden wreath might be got up > for Benjamin Disraeli by the millions <>f *■ England, by each giving a penny, as in - the Premier's career there was not one , dishonouring blot. " Whoever heard of » Mordecai being a statesman 1 Hainan, . perhaps, aimed at being one. Those people who suggest strange historical parallels often give birth to stranger k suggestions than they at first intend.

At the annual meeting of shareholders ' of the Olago Daily Times Co., the Hon. > W. H. Reynolds presiding, the chairman 5 said the balance sheet was highly satisi factory; the capital had been called up at intervals during the year, but had the , whole of the called up capital been paid ( at the beginning of the year the pmlit would have shown at the rate of 18£ per ! cent, per annum. On the average • amount of capital for the 3'ear, it of : course showed a very much larger per- • centage. The report, which recomi mended a dividend of ten per cent, and , a bonus of 1\ per cent, on the capital . paid up on January Ist for second half year wiss adopted. The success of the \ Daily Times is due to the commercial find {advertising public. It is now con- • sidered in most of the towns of the ! colony that one daily paper is sufficient . for all public announcements ; and that , more than this becomes an impost, which is quite unnecessary, and more than most people can afford to pay.