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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 157, 18 January 1878, Page 3

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The Episcopalians in Inverness have had a day of rejoicing , on a considerable scale, the occasion being the gfifden wedding day of Bishop Eden, primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. >A/ large number of ladies and gentlemen met in the school adjoining the cathedral, where they received Bishop and Mrs Eden. Thereafter Canon Medley presented his lordship, .on behalf of the clergy and communicants of the Church, in-Scot-land, with a handsome chalice.,. v find on behalf of two .ladies in Norwich .with a paten and spoon; In Accepting the gifts, which cost about £70, apd' : are to be used m the Cathedral, Bishop Eden made ati appropriate reply. Thereafter -St.. .Andrew's thechiinreri attending the schools presented Bishop Eden with a Handsome Bible, and Mrs Eden with an elegant Prayer Book. Cheers were afterwards given for the Bishop and Mrs Eden, and the proceedings terminated. The new peal of bells was rung at intervals during the day by a band of professional bellringers from London.— Glasgow Herald. Some Frenchmen have recently patented a contrivance for obtaining instantaneous light by merely depressing a button. All classes of carriages on the AlsaceLorraine lines are now warmed, the supply of heat being from the boiler of the locomotive. Oxygen may be readily obtained at common temperatures by the mutual reactions of two oxygenated compounds formed of several atoms of oxygen. ' Mr Darwin is to receive the degree of Doctor of Laws from Cambridge. A new explosive called cotton powder has just been invented by a Liverpool inhabitant. The practicability of forming a sea in the south of Tunis has been favorably reported upon. Petroleum springs along the coast of the Caspian Sea were worked by the ancient Greeks. At the Paris Exhibition there will be distaibuted 1000 gold, 4000 silver and 8000 bronze medals. Tea should be made at the precise instant when the water is about to boil; but if it actually boils beforehand, the opportunity for success has passed away. The refinements of photographic science have been brought to bear in the preparation of paper for valentines. A sailor, while explaining the third figure of the quadrille to his messmate, thus described it: "You first heave ahead," he said, " and pass your adversary's yard-arm, regain your berth on the other tack in the same order, take your station with your partner, in line, back and fill, and then fall on your keel and bring up with your partner ; she then manoeuvres ahead, off alongside of you ; then make sail in company with her until nearly astern board ; cast her off to shift for herself, regain your place the best way you can, and then let go your anchor."— Nelson Daily Times.