CHINESE CHURCH IN MELBOURNE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3282, 13 August 1872, Page 3

CHINESE CHURCH IN MELBOURNE.

(The Aw.) In Little Bonrke strvt't, l>efc\v<!en Swjuistonaud llu&sdl streuU.- Htaud« a neat brick edifice oroatnented 'with devicts in. tire-brick, and which on certain evctunjgS'Ui the week emits from its windows a flood of light, while the hum of a voice heard through tho open door proclaim* that it is not unteimnted. Here in the midst of dirt and Mongolian profligacy stands tlic Chinese church. It is plastered iasidc, has four windows shaded with Venetian blinds on one side, and two windows looking; into Little fiourke street. The furniture consists »f a polished ecdar reading desk and a double row of forms, with a passage between tliena. The builcliujj is lit by a couple of jzns sunlights. The preacher, an intellectual Ohim-se, last night wai arrayed in a black cossa-.-k, an-l weai s the orthodox white tie. Ho is e^ridently no mean rhetorician : now the. guttuntlu How trippingly from his tongne, &:ul now thefre in a burly, imprunsivo energy in his deliverance. New he takes the audience into his confidence, and with uplifted finger speaks in whispered accents, and now his voice nssurncs the tono of coaxing entreaty. The congregation ia a mixed ona. Here a white bearded Chinese gazes fixedly at tho lips of tlic preacher, and there a spectacled compatriot peruses a prayer-hook printed in Chims-j character!?. Another, with his head resting on his hand, seems wrapt in devotion, while near him is a Mongolian friend who ha« evidently gon« to sleep. A few European females, with flowing hair, Tyrolcso hats, and a «reat show of riblmns, arc scattered about the building. The rest of the congregation h made up of three or four respectable looking tradesmen, a bibulous-looking individual rubbing his shoulders against the wall, and a couple of sodden-looking youths evidently of the Lirrikiti cl:wa. Ckiir.ptvßito as is the congregation, the utmost quiet reigus, and a decorum is preserved that might net an example to thy frequenters of ninny a far more pretentious place :sf worship.

STKASOKim paying a visit to Oonmlln aro often at a loss to know what it IUo best establishment to viU: for Uie jxnchdie of drai«ry iind clothing. Hubert, Hiiynwi, iind 'Jo. offo special advantages to tho pa!> lie that car be mot with nowhere cLw in the city. They ke«p at all tlinos the l»rg«ot and beet assoifa* stoclt ot every duns of goods, imported direct from tb> loo<Uu(c inauafdcturera and wurulioiwemen at homo, which being bought out!rely upon chsli t«rios, they are enabled U> offer gools of euch nvcrllng value as ennnot be equalled by any other homy in the trade. £v«ry article in rstook ia mnrkeil at a tixtd price for rend}' money, from which no alMt«incnt i* ever ni»<!o, uo tliat the mo»t incxperiencißd buy their goods at the same prices m the best judges. Their terms aro—net cash, without discount or reductions of any kind. A fuller description of their stock 111 bs found ia an «_'lvcrtiv:inent on the firet page of this paper.— [Anrr.l

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