A Church-going Bell.
[(To the Editor of the Times); Sir,—A stranger to tho sights and sounds of our town on Sunday morning on passing tho church building of Holy Trinity Church stopped in astonished disgust as ho contemplated the extraordinary contrivance in use there for ringing a boll. To his grated hearing it reminded him of tho dunting and dirling of a farmyard bell chucked at by a doddipoll boy. Tho bellhanger of that lovely instrument in Derby street was a genius of high ordor. Tho stranger was known to ask himself, “ were I a ropemaker I'd wish to have tho contract for supplying ropes for that nuisance.” The churchwardens evidently are used to tho musie of that hempen tether and its comrade bell.—Yours, etc., Discord Major. P.S.—Tho funds at disposal must be scanty—olso 1
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 511, 26 August 1902, Page 3
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135A Church-going Bell. Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 511, 26 August 1902, Page 3
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