WAKEFIELD.
["FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]. Yesterday will long remembered by a .large, numbe.r of the residents in this district as the., day. on which were committed to ■ the ..gray.e the remains of Mfß' Thomas Price, au old lady who h*ad been a settler iv the province for thirty-one years, and who waa looked up to by all who knew her as a worthy and kindhearted friend and neighbor. The annual meeting of the members and friends of' the Church of England was held last night. . The meeting commenced with a tea party, the materials for which had been, collected and prepared by a few . energetic ladies in ; the district to whom too much praise cannot be accorded for the manner in which they carried out the ; duties they had undertaken. After tea, ' the parochial business of the evening ■ commenced, and the officers of the church for the ensuing year were duly elected, after which, Mr Hunter Brown gave a most interesting lecture on " Christian Efforts in Foreign . X/ands," which was treated in such a manner as to elicit general approbation from an audience which was so large . that sitting room could not be found for them in the Lower Wakefield school. A hymn having been sung, and a prayer offered up ■by the Rev J. Spear, the meeting separated. . ( .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 169, 15 July 1873, Page 2
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219WAKEFIELD. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 169, 15 July 1873, Page 2
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