RECOVERY OF STOLEN CHURCH ORNAMENTS.
On Friday an interesting discovery was made, iu the premises formerly occupied by Birch and 00., at Kaiapoi, of the articles surreptitiously removed from the parish church on the night of the 22nd December, 1877. While removing some books placed in the building by the Bank of New Zealand, one of the clerks remarked a small box branded “Levy’s Hair Oil.” Upon opening this the missing emblems were discovered and were handed over to the police. They include two wooden eucharistio candlesticks, two three branch brass vesper lights, two brass altar vases, a brass cross, two dossels of damask cloth, maroon ground, with yellow fleur delis pattern, and two crimson desk frontals, silk fringed, with needlework figures in floss silk, beads and wire. These were the propeity of the Rev. H. B. Oarlyon, and valued at £3O. The articles included some which the members of the vestry had petitioned the Bishop to cause to be removed from the chancel. Mr Carlyon allowed them to remain pending the Bishop’s decision, and in the meantime, between the time of locking the church on Saturday on the date named and opening it on Sunday, were stolen. The discovery of the ornaments yesterday caused some sensation.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1865, 14 February 1880, Page 3
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