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Kumara Times, Issue 189, 12 May 1877, Page 2

A San Francisco telegram, dated 3rd March, says: "Ninety-nine men, women, aliiff children left New York iifor Sydney, on 3rd February, by the barq ue expect fo find homes in. New South Wales. This is the first of a series of ■ colonising. experiments by the agents of the Govern,-,-, ment of New South "Wales. ..; , :

The death is announced .of the; Rev. Sjr Henry William Baker,-, Bar(|.„p£. j Mon Hands, near Leominster, ■ tfie 1 - j principal editor and one of the original i proprietors of ■•' Hymns Ancient ; and Modern. Sir Henry, who was born in; 1821, graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1844, and succeeded to the title as third baronet in 1859.; In 1851 he was presented by the Chapter of Windsor to the Vicirage of Monklands, which he has since !held. Sir ..Henry Baker not only superintended"; the compilation of-;hymns aneient arid : i modern, but jtfas one of the contributors ' : to it as ;a.writer both.of.hymns land , tunes." . . v '

Special attention is directed to the - New Shilling Table at D. i)av|dsoh & Co.'s, Drapers; - Seddonistreet, choicest, and' certainly the ' greatest variety of, good and useful articles tobe seen in connexion with a draper's establishment. In many respects it reminds the visitor of a modern ' bazaar.—[Advt.J