Miscelianeous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1647, 1 March 1886, Page 4

Miscelianeous Items.

At the luncheon given in connection with the Choral Festival at Christchurch last week, the .Dean of Cbriatchurch, in proposing the health, of the I*ri mate, said that in the early days, ..when the Bishop was visiting „;■'. his diocese, which then embraced ■ Dunedia as well as Chrislchurch, he came to a couutry church, where the ~*~~. congregation wished to have some hymns sung. They had no instru-; ' : , anents, however, and> were . rnucli perplexed till a parishioner bethought ■A them that he had a musical box, » and this was brought into the porch, ; as one of. the tunes was the "Old Hundredth." . The tune was between VAuld 'Laiujsyiie" and "Rule .... '.^Britannia." The people had to play off ; all the tunes up to the "Old v Hundredth" before they took "the box <v into the porch, and they had to clear |t ( very quickly away before it begaD to: play "Rule Britannia." ; The Primate, we learn from the Lyttelton Times, in responding, said the musioal :loo# alluded tu had not beenjbiqnght > out on the occasion mentioned by the 1 -Dean, because he had been warned in time; l>ut he was grateful for haying escaped from it for it was au oldfashioned box, and among it* tunes was "Jump Jioi Crow.' When the box- got to the sncred tune the congregation would join in; ; The following are as Creville says in the newly published Memoirs," a characteristic instance of the/'power pf^ the press":— "Yesterday Le ..Marchant told me an anecdote illustrative of the power :of the press. He called late one night many years ago on Barnes at his house, aud while there another visitor arrived whom he did not see, but who was shown into another room. Barnes went to - -him, and after a quarter of an hour" returned, when Le Marchant said *Shall Itellyou who your visitor is?' Barnes said yes, if he knew. Well, then I know his step and his voice; it is Lord Durham. Barnes owned it was, when Le Marphant said, 'What does .he ' coine for ?' Barnes said he oame on behalf of Kihg Leopold, who had been much annoyed by some article in the Times, to etitreab they would j put one in of a contrary and healing description. As Le Marchant said, here wastbe proudest man in England ; come tpsolicit Ihe editor*of a newspaper for a crowned head!" : ' ■■„ An agent of the Poll Matt -Gazettewitlraview of testing the trueinwardness of prison life/ caused himself to fi be committed to a London prison. He relates as follows the bonelicent j offices of the prison chaplain : — " I had a visit from the chaplain after I h&d been in prison a day or two, and the interesting and edifying interterview consisted of these; questions, as nearly as I can remember : 'What is your name ? What are you ? What are you here for ? Can you read and write ? (Brilliant questions to ask a man who said he was a jonrnalist.) What church have you . been in the habit of attending? What was your father ? lfl how many days did God make the world ? What did he do on the seventh day ? How many commandments are there ? On what mount were they given to Moses ? What did our Saviour come into the world for.' After receiving my answer to the last the reverend gentleman remarked: 'Then Kowceareful we ought to be to avoid sin,' took up his hat, aaid, Good morming,' and the iuter view was at and end.