ST. PAUL’S CHURCH.

Evening Star, Issue 4251, 11 October 1876, Page 4

ST. PAUL’S CHURCH.

: ;; To the Editor. Sir,—-I see by the papers that the work nf the enlargement of St. Paul’s Church by the addition of another aisle is to be put in Wwd at once.. lam going, therefore, to ask for space in your journal to make the sugwhich I have no doubt many would M glad to flee carried out, that this -would he a fitting opportunity to make provision fer at once, or at some future time, a strong tower, which should not only be an omifnent to the most central position 1 Ip the City, but might carry a peal of six or eight bells. - It seems, to me much to be regretted that the rising generation should grow up having sever heard the music of the church bells, sounds ’so familiar over the whole of 41 merrie England,” from the grand old peal in the Cathedral Tower to the joyous tinkling that issues from the village church, and old associations point to the connection of bells with a sacred edifice. I know of no place where this music of the bells would be more effective than Dunedin, and no site in the town more advantageous than that of St. Paul’s Church. The extensive basin-shaped hollow in and around which the-City stands would gather up the waves of sound, and the dwellers in Roslyn and Momington, townspeople enjoying a •troll around the picturesque Belt on a summer’s evening, or travellers from a distance approaching the “great City” by coach or * vail would be gratified by those once familiar •onnda aa they floated up distinctly or •efty died away with the ever-varying force and direction of the wind. Then, too, the possession of a peal of bells would enable the inhabitants of the largest city in New Zealand to give more prominence to occasions of national or colonial interest, or to celebrate in a becoming way events of strictly private character. I fear the work of raising the necessary funds will be a slow process, unless our lady-workers would kiudly get up a bazaar, • promise being made, of course, that the bells should ring merrily at the marriage of •aeh young lady who had thus assisted («ven by a pin-cushion) to provide them, but I should like to see the want acknowledged by some steps being taken at once to furnish both a site and habitation.—l am, Ice., Campanile, Dunedin, October H.