LITTLE RIVER CEMETERY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 407, 29 June 1880, Page 3

LITTLE RIVER CEMETERY.

To the Editor of the Mail. Sir.—The honor of setting the ball in motion which has caused all the commobelongs of right to Mr W. Coop, who, on<. <• 'ening after a School Committee electing, threatened to resign from the Cemetc.-y TH st unless the fencing was gone on \v:i!«, this caused enquiries to be made, and ntnee the tears. Kindly insert in your valuable paper and oblige. Yours &.c, A. D. ALLAN.

There are decrees of villainy ir. -lie way of jokes, but it would be-hard to beat the following for cold-blooded atrocity. Tho author of "London Town Talk" in the Melbourne Argus says :

"There are not only some different views of art in circulation, but in the en" 1 of the-more ancient masters, various wars of explaining even the meaning w!;ieli their pictures were intended to convey. The following is an example in point : —

An evangelical divine of my-acqunh l ' ' ■■ ■"'' was making his professional visits the other day in a rural parish, when, in the back parlor of a small tradesman, he perceived a picture which filled him with a natural indignation. It represented —so far as mediaeval art could do it—the Pope, the Virgin Mary, and a female saint of eminence, with tlie words ' Aye Maria ' beneath it, 'I am very sorry, Mrs Jones,' said the clergymau to the tradesman's wife, 'to see a picture of this description hanging, on the walls of so good a Protestant.' ' or' bless ye, sir,' she answered inn°cently, 'what's the matter with the pictur?' 'Well, it's Popish to begin with, very Popish.' ' I'm sure I don't .know, sir. We bought it off a travelling pedlar the other day, and thought it very pretty.' ' But do you know who are the persons represented, and .what it. signifies, my good woman?' ' Well, no, si)', we are not scholards, but we think we have made out what it means.' ' Then what does it mean ?' ' Well, sir this good gentleman (the Pope), he's a-making up to this young lady (the eminent female saint), but she doesn't encourage him, she don't; she turns him over to the other, and says 1 'Aye Maria.' "