THE ENGLISH CHURCH AT LYTTELTON.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2715, 21 December 1882, Page 3

THE ENGLISH CHURCH AT LYTTELTON.

As was reported the other day, the church at Port is in imperative. >need of certain repairs to it, included in which is the expensive undertaking, of re-roofing the building. To enable this to be done'«a bazaar was got up, and yesterday afternoon was opened, To this bazaar it. is the imperative duty of. *e very lover of the useful and the beautiful to go, is the unanimous opinion of the committee of ladies who have worked for many .months past to produce but! a tithe of the gems-at contains. Once in the-gaily*.decked building in which it is held.'the rest may in the case of the visitor safely be left in the hands'-of ladieavfor direction. There isj.no possibility of anyone finding fault with the bazaar for lack of variety of its contents or want- of temptation to -spend money, and anyone who finds faulVwith it on these grounds after paying it. a visit should be -condemned to visit itla second time. The premises kindly lent by Mr Peter Cunningham for the bazaar are those splendid brick stores on Norwich Quay, and they answer admirably, affording fine promenading space, and room -for the brass band, which it may ibe said is the Lyttelton band, one of the best now in the province. The stalls, that is the great stalls, the four bazaar palaces of fashion, in each of which there,are probably hundreds of poundsrworth of " Oh, such lovely things," stand side by side down one side of the building. A very " tower of bliss," presided over by a professional fortune teller, is ready to receive the welcome stranger at the end of the room, the Sunday School Variety Store, a perfect marvel of its kind, occupies a prominent position on the opposite side, and the weary and wayworn wanderer is hospitably received, next door so to speak, and handed "a delicious cup of tea," &c. Mr Graham's ever attractive portable ivory manufactory fills up a corner, and all manner of sweet little stalls and Christmas trees, looked after by dear little girls, fill up the centre, not forgetting a galvanic battery which the very genial Captain Mosey, of the ship Waimate, conducts with pronounced success. To attempt to describe the stalls beyond using the show bill phrase " too numerous to mention," would inevitably end in failure, but as the names of the ladies in charge of them may be useful, they are as follow: —Stall No. 1, Mesdames Puflett, Hawkins, Tayler and Owen Jones; No. 2, Mesdames Townsend, Garforth, Cleary, H. J. V. Rogers, Gibson and Miss Cameron; No. 3, Mesdames Rouse, Dawe and Nalder; No. 4, Mesdames H. and W. Allwright and Pearson ; Sunday school stall, Mesdames Joyce, Whitby, Owen and the teachers ; refreshment stall, Mesdames J. P. Jones and Ford. The bazaar will be open to-day and on New Year's Day.