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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 475, 11 February 1881, Page 3

The London Spartwj Times tells this good story :—A clergyman who lately left Livei pool in one ot the huge ocean steamers began to feel rather uncomfortable soon after leaving the mouth of the river, and having had an introduction to the captain, sought him out, to learn if there was any danger. The captain did not answer immediately, ami led his passenger to the forecastle and told him to listen to what was going on. The clergyman was shocked to hear a party of sailors swearing vigorously, and expressed his horror to his con luctor. The captain merely remarked :—" Do you think these men would swear in such a manner if there was any real danger?" whereupon the parson seemed satisfied and retired. A day or two afterwards, when they encountered rather a severe storm, the clergyman, remembering what he had been shown before, managed to make his way with great difficulty to the forecastle, mid was overheard by the cn}»tnm, as he came away, exclaiming to him ;—" Thank God, they're swearing yet!" ,