A MYSTERY IN THE CALENDAR.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 157, 8 March 1872, Page 3

A MYSTERY IN THE CALENDAR.

In this year there will be fifty-three Sundays but- only fifty-two weeks. Nowhere during the year does Sunday come ofterier than "once "in seven days. The first week in the year begins with Sundiv, and so do all the other weeks: This -may' appear mysterious at first, but by Vonsaltins: the calendars fbt-1871 and 1872 it will be seen that the last week of LB7l begins .with Sun-lay, and has a Sunday following it. As two Sundays cannot come together, the year 1 -1572 begins with Monday, and, it being Leap' Year, Sundays. will occur once in seven days thereafter. The arrangement will take on Sundays at the end-of the week instead of the beginning, and is a con . plete theological triumph for the Seventh Day Baptists. . This complication of the calendar, is supposed to have been planned by the Jews r whoj oii acr count of their superior education, were entrusted with its revision. " This explanation is not to be binding" upon anybody v nor to conflict with any- person's constitutional privilege of universal toleration.- ■

The ' West Coast Times' urges; the granting of Government aid in prospecting for quartz reefs in the central and- southern districts of Westland, as utiless such reefs are discovered the miners there will, it says, leave 'for the Inangahua and Grey Tliver reefs. . A claim at the Half-Ounce diggings, Grey Valley, has been yielding 90 ozs; per week for eijjht men ; and another, in the same locality, 40 ounces per week for six men.