To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 356, 16 December 1879, Page 2

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail.

Sir, — Re the Week as a Measure* of Time, $nd Robert "Greaves; thereon, as in the issue of the 2nd inst. A.D. 1879 The extra time arising from B.C? ,4004 '~\ rtfeefcap years in 5883, is ' ! -^—- 1470 days/ or 4 years 10 A*M.;5883.., days, and the 4 -years in- ,— — eluded',, as ,R. Greaves ought to knbwy in the 5883. So before he can apply,his Hunting. ,Cpg,r Divine Indek, or Divine Measure seven}. "converted and crystallised, as he tells us, from the. word Sabbath, he must first .deduct the,i years'so acquired from the 588$, land then the whole of his tirade falls to the ground. What a fate for suph a flourish.: So it will still remain for .Christendom to bejcontent with bur calendar, notwithstanding its origin, tinkering, and cobbling, as stated by R. Greaves, .j It has served in,the present case, however, to crush the exquisite simplicity of hie' Hunting Cog. : The other parts of his article, as.they do not bear on the figures, I leave alone. But there are among .yours .readers itjipsa who cannot, fail to *be taken "up a good deal with the power of the Hunting Cog,,' 7 JAMES GOURLAY," Long Bay. '