The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-06-08 00:00:00

"TILE REV." 11. KEET.

Mr. Walter Phillimore, on Thursday, gave judgment, as
Chancellor of Lincoln, on the application of the Hey.
Henry Keet, Wesleyan minister, for a faculty to erect •
tombetone in Owston churehyard on which he wax thus
described. The l'hancelloor, in giving judgment, oliscuseed
the question whether a Wesleyan minister could be
acknowledged by the authorities of the Church as
" reverend" oor "worthy of reverence," and came to the
o•oncluaitin that such a 'lemon was rather to be regarded as
a schismatic and a chief oof schismatics. The claim wee
therefore one to have schism honoured, whereas it was to
In lamented over. Looking at the general law of the
Church. he woe not sure that the words "Wesleyan
minute?" standing lop themselves would not be unlawful,
but to describe such a person as "reverend " would be to
oliaseminate doctrines inconsistent with those of the
Church. Further, "reverend " was an epithet appropriate
to the clergy, and Wesleyan ministers were not in holy
enters. " Whether the word 'reverend' wax • legal title
or a coilytesy title, it especially belonged to thaw in holy
orders. The citation therefore could not be leaned ; lout of
Mr. Keet liked to offer a tombstone not assuming the title
as absolutely his own, but showing that the title was
merely &warted, the Chancellor would strain a point in
his favour. Mr. Knot oliol not accept his offer, but has
appealed from the libs•esan Court to that oof the Province
of Canterbury, from which a further appeal lies to the
Committee of the Privy Council.
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WRECK OF AN AUSTR I,LIAN STEAMER.
LOSS OF OVER • IWNDFLZD LALS.

The Smith Australian RegiJter publishes a narrative
from ono of the survivors of the steamer Gothenburg,
which was wrecked on the Barrow Coral Reef, on the
24th of February. There were upwards of a hundred
pawengers no board, and the crew numbered :C, only
of the whole number of persons being saved. The vessel
went on the reef in the evening, and whilst lying ashore a
hoary gals sprang up and caused the breakers to dash
over her. Each wave carried IF numbers of those who
were clinging to the ship, until one of unusual force lifted
her from the reef awl deposited her in deep water. She
kept afloat for some time, however, and a number of the
passengers and crew got Into the lifeboat. By this means
14 landed on Holborn Island, and foul were picked up
from the captain's gig. Four more succeed.' in drifting
to Holborn Island. The Gothenburg sailed from NI
Darwin on the l'ith of February, but her destination it
Uot stated in the narrative quoted.

A ROYAL Conceal/A —The Duke of Edinburgh has, it
Is understood, composed, and in private pissed, several
pieces of his own—solos roe the violin and violoncello, and
duete for the violin and flute. It is likely they will soon
be published to the world. We learn that the most
ambitious of these musical novelties—a concerto (quintet)
in E minor, has recently been played, in an anonymous
form. in many London drawing.rooms. —Arks/memo.
Tim reason why KO many are unable to take COCO& is,
that the varieties commonly sold are mixed with Starch,
under the plea of rendering them soluble; while rosily
making them thick henry, and indigestible. This may be
easily detected, for if Cocos thickens in the rep it prows
the addition of starch. Csmicar's Cocoa ESWIWO is
genuine : it is therefore three times the strength of these
COCOS., and a refreshing Beverage like Tea or Coffee.
A Disnoerar Pnacrics. —For the sake of extra profit
some unprincipled tradesmen, when asked for RECkires
Peers Btu E Ii Squaws, substitute inferior kinds in the
same form. The Paris Blue, "As USED IN THE PRINCE
Or WALES' LAUNDRY.' is UUW SO universally esteemed
for its splendid quality —above all other blues—that it is
important to observe it is only genuine when sold in
squares, wrapped up in pink paper 121)&7 I. &alit and
Sons' name and trade mark. Edam@ Blue which is
not so wrapped.

TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC IN THE FIJI ISLANDS.
An epidemic of measles introduced at Levuka, it II
believed, by her Majesty's ship Dido, when that ship
returned from Sydney with the king and his two sons It
January, has assumed alarming proportions. The white
residents, especially the children, have also been visted by
it, but none of the whites have died. The natives say it
is • big sickness whirls has cotue I ram Sydney, and why
do not the whites die as well as themselves? They have
mule t. the conclusion that, to use their own expression,
"God im angry with them for giving away their land, and
so he has sent the sickness and death to timish them.
They say further that the white men brought the sickness
to Fiji, that the natives may all he killed, and the white
men get all the land. Under this intprer,ion. whenever
they are taken aiek, they refine to take viler food or
medicine or to obey may of the directions given by the
medical officers.
The Melbotrrne .1 rts says :—"All the head chiefs are
dead. Three hundred natives have died in the island of
Ovalau alone, and in the other islands a greater number
have succumbed. Several of the native towns are depopu-
lated. At one town the bodies lay for days uncovered,
and were mangled by pigs. The natives were only bury-
ing the bodies a few inches below the surface, and the
late rains have washed the soil off. The effluviutu
emitted is sickening, and the worst results are antici-
pated."