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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 614, 22 April 1878, Page 2

A word crept into our Saturday's local referring to yesterday's Easter Services at St. Luke's, which had the very undesirable effect of rendering absurd the hist sentence. The portion we refer to should have read : The graceful custom" (meaning the graceful custom oi the congregation), instead of the r/ioir's graceful custom, as printed in error. The uninitiated would be surprised at the ease with which such a blunder may be made. This is how our compositor tripped. The word ''Hallelujah" occurred in the manuscript immediately above the words " The graceful custom. " As it meant the " Hallelujah chorus," in order to distinguish it from the other '•'Hallelujahs," which arcvery numerous, we inserted the word " chorusin the manuscrij.it. Unfortunately it happened to fall just above and between the words "The graceful and as our penmanship is by no means of the copperplate type, the word was taken to lie choir, ami as such it passed in the hurry of publishing. The manuscript was kindlv supplied to us, and we think it due to the contributor to make the foregoing explanation, to which we heartily append our apology.

It is announced in another column that Messrs. Hislop and Shrimski, M.l f.U.'s. will address the electors at the Mechanics' Institute, 'Hampden, on Monday, 29th inst., -at 7-30 p.m., and at the Otcpnpo Athenanim on Tuesday, the 30th inst., at the same hour.

The man rejoicing in the soubriquet of "Bob the devil," but whose real name appears to be James Fare, charged with perpetrating the two impudent forgeries recorded in our last issue, was arrested on Saturday at Otekaike by mounted constable Welch, and brought into town by the evening train. lie had apparently intended making his way oyer tin Pass towards Naseby. On being searched only eight shillings were found upon the fellow, v/ho had apparently squandered the rest of the money obtained by means of the fraud. He was brought up at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, and remanded until Thursday for the production of witnesses, (jrcat credit is due to the constable fr.r the manner in \vhieh he succeeded in tracing the accused, and pyp&tuqlly capturing him.

The Clerk of the County Council notifies that it is intended to levy a rate of Id, in the £ on all properties within the Connt\ r , and that the rate book is now open for inspection at the Council Chambers.

It is notified by advertisement that the voters' lists for the \Vaiareka, and Waitaki iloail Districts are nov open for inspection at, the ltoad Board offices, and that persons claiming to have their names inserted therein must, on or before the .'iOth day of April current, lodge v.-itli the undersigned an application in the form of the 6th schedule attached to the " Otago Boads Ordinance. 1871."

Tenders are called for by the contractor for the waterworks up to Thursday nest at noon for setting about 1500 square yards pitching in ponds and race on Plack Point section.

It will he observer! by an advertisement in another column that the Volunteer Hall will be opened on Monday next as a school for young children. By using the hall for school purposes, the Committee will be enabled to provide temporary accommodation for the large number of children who liave been refused admission into the various public schools until such time as the contemplated additions to the present school buildings have been completed.

Of all festivals kept by Christians throughout the world there is one only regarded as of greater importance than Easter. In many parts of England there exists a quaint superstition that the sun dances with joy on that day ; and the forty days of Lent, kept by very many with more or less strictness, has the effect, in a great measure, of intensifying the sense of a weight removed—a sense which the change of lesson and music, more isarticularly in the Episcopal and Roman Catholic Churches at the' feast of Easter, produces. Yesterday, the white stone pillars and walls of St. Luke's served to display, by admirable contrast, the tasteful groups of flowers and leaves. There is perhaps no stone better adapted for the interior of churches than the kind so abundant in our district, and the elegant carved tracery of the columns was seen to the greatest advantage above the rich dark green of wreaths of ivy. Over the altar, the raised text of white on a red sround at once called to mind the passage in the Scriptures—" Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be white like wool." The whole of the decorations were most pleasing, and we doubt if ever the real beauty of the designer's conception of ecclesiastical architecture was ever more clearly and impressively conveyed to the minds of the congregation. In the morning and evening,"the Incumbent (the Kcv. Algernon Gilford) preached two appropriate sermons. The music, in keeping with the day. was excellently rendered by the choir. In the morning the Quoniam from "Mozart's Twelfth Mass" was sung as an anthem ; and in the evening the recitative " .Behold a virgin shall conceive," and the solo " 0 Thou that tellest," immediately preceding the chorus of the same name, could hardly have been taken more correctly, or with better feeling ; and the concluding chorus, the well-known masterpiece of Handel, the " Hallelujah," brought the evening service to a most litting conclusion.

The pistol pocket-book is the latest safeguard of independent American ladies against thieves. These pocket-books, when carried in the hand, look exactly like ail ordinary purse ; but should an unwary person make a snatch at them, the owner has only to press a spring and the thief is shot through the heart, provided the aim be good.

A. little novelty in political nomenclature which is perhaps worth noticing, says the Pall Mall Gazette, has cropped up within the last few days. The 'Russian journals arc beginning to talk of " Czargrad," meaning thereby the city which the rest of the world know as Constantinople. In two llussian newspapers of opposite opinion the new name occurs several times in one day. How long will it be before our own Eussian journals take it up ? and how long before the professor of language discovers in the existence ot' the word a i>cw reason for transferrinEt the citv from the Sultan to the Czar ?

"We (Tiiunru Herald) regret to learn that Mr. K. A. Wilson, of T> muka. mi last Friday met with a rather serious accident. Mr. Wilson, while practising at the Temuka Volunteer Kille l.utts. somehow tripped over a sii-ne. and Ml to the ground, breaking his lee' at tile ankle.

Several fi! tb" Northern papers arc uivinp upon the {>■ ■(>;.i>; or the ('olrmyt'io wisdom !■(' croethijt a Mominumt, as a fiJ;ti 15lt mark of

esteem and ix-:s:>e;;L to the memory of til!; late Ki.shop Sulwyii.

-An accident which was attended with fatal consequences occurred on the road between tlie liangitata railway station and the IJangitata Island on las.t Wednesday. It appears that a man named Henry Cook, who was in the employment of Messrs Hughes Bros., TCangitata Island, was returning in charge of a team and dray from the railway station, where lie had delivered a load of grain, when the horses taking fright at a calf which was 011 tlie side of the road, bolted, and Cook, in an attempt to pick up the reins which he had dropped, fell to the ground, and the wheel of the dray passed over his body. Mr. Hughes, who was driving another team some distance behind, soon came up, and finding !'ook 011 the road evidently much hurt, but tpiite insensible, took him up and brought him home, where he died in half an hour afterwards.—Timaru Herald. I

A boat's crew of live men from Christchurch had a very narrow escape from drowning at Sumner on Good Friday. They were (says the Press) pulling in a light stump outrigger, and shortly after arriving at the beach pulled over the bar, on which there was smooth water at the time. After getting about 30n yards outside the beacon,

they rested on their oars for a little while, and the large number of visitors who had been watching them from the beach and the hotels were alarmed to see a heavy blind roller coming in. In a few seconds it was on the boat, and the cry immediately went up that she was swamped. Fortunately this was not the case, but the boat had capsized, and the men were observed trying to .scramble 011 to the bottom. Mr. Joseph Day hearing the alarm, with great promptitude launched his boat, which was quickly manned by a volunteer crew, and made all speed towards the sjiot. In the meantime the scene on shore was painfully exciting, as the men were observed to have been ivashed off by one roller, and for a moment seemed to have disappeared. Much relief was experienced when it was seen after a little while that they had regained their hold. Mr. Day's boat very soon reached the capsized boat, and every one was relieved as the men were lifted into it, and all were brought safely to land. The escape was a very narrow one, and the men were very much exhausted when their rescuers reached them.

An American branch of the -"Confraternity of th ; 2 Sacred Thirst " has been established in America. It is a new style of teetotal society, startefl in Ireland by Father Robert Kelly, and approved of by the Pope.