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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3106, 15 March 1883, Page 3

The Swedish ship Ugglan, lying inside the breakwater is beginning totake iq cargo. The first load of 140 sacks of wheat left the landing service at four o’clock this after, noon.

Mr Milner Stephen will arrive in Timaru by the end of the week and will receive patients at the Qrosvenor Hotel on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next. Recent appointments having made the Ministry of Great Britain complete, the “Pall Mall Gazette” publishes a list of the Administration from which «e find that altogether it contains 40 members ; of these 14 form the Cabinet, seven belonging to the House of Lords and seven to the Commons; of the rest, three are in the Upper House and 23 in the Commons. 19 of the whole 40 are titled gentlemen. The salaries range from £995, paid to the Solicitor-General for Scotland, to £IO,OOO, which is the remuneration of the Lord Chancellor. Only two members are unpaid the Junior Lord of the Treasury and the Paymaster-General, and the total salary list foots up to over £IIO,OOO. The Premier is the oldest man in the Government, being 73 years of age, and his son, Mr H. J. Gladstone, is the youngest, 29. More than half the Ministry are fifty years or over; and, of the others, only three are under 40.

Hannah Hall and James members of the Society of Friends, held an evangelistic service last evening at the Congregational Church. The building was crow.’ed by a most attentive audience, and on the platform with the evangelists were the ministers of the various denominations in town. The services were of a simple and practical kind, the addresses being earnest. Hannah Hall comes from Ohio (U.8.A.), and J. Cotton, from Tasmania, and they follow the dictates of what they conceive to be a divine voice bidding them go forth to proclaim the Gospel. They have visited Palestine, India, and many other interesting lands, and have been well received everywhere. Those who did not know anying of the Quaker profession could not fail to note the calm earnestness, the liberal spirit, and the simple dignity which invariably characterise the Friends. Quaint as the customs of the Friends are, one can but admire the consistency of their lives, and the earnestness of their purpose.

Pursuit is preferable to attainment. Two Michigan men got info a boat to chase a bear. The bear climbed in f o the boat, and the men got out and chased the State of Michigan half a mile before they caught it. The prudent country schoolmaster does not larrup the boy until he has looked over the boy’s old man, and is sure ho can whop him too. “If you would be truly happy, my dear,” said one New York lady to another “you will have neither eyes nor ears when your husband comes home late from the club,” “Yes, I know,” answered the other, wearily, “ but what am I to do with my nose ?”