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Patea Mail, 19 April 1882, Page 3

’A ? t Auckland & stVange'lfeltision prevailed on Monday evening, the shooting lights df the laMrom beibg'fmistak£l for evidence of . some fire raging near the cityf, was rung,,ant| commotion prevailed.,.

,V Cpniplaii/ts delays..at J tb,e,-. Patea post-office reach us almost daily. The staff is too‘ small for the wbffc,. though Mr,;.- Long; does his best,;to reduce the [annoyances. 'A memorial' to the ! Postmaster ‘ Sighed J by‘ business people 1 A who ‘ are 1 , so often kept waiting, might lead to a remedy. „ . •If)1‘ \( ; / li. V :•; j -, Tlie Auckland Star has been taking a census of the Auckland church-goers on Easter Sunday! The ; fesults came out as jfoltew lYGhufdiijr Rornarj Cath01ic,,4766 ; - Wesjeyans, 1938 ; Presbyterians, ' f4*42 Baptists, 936 ; Primitive. Mefliodists,, . .62,9 ..United Method,istV r li4, total including all those, present at the.places.pf some minor sects, wa,s ( 10,550, or about; 31, per cent of the whole pppulation of the city ; and suburbs. The English, ratio percent. ... , + ... Women’s rites—Marriage ceremonies. ' 1 Fiill-dreSs bphneta 'for visits','“concerts, weddings, &c., are very' elegant. Recolect that connubial - bliss is‘like raspberry jairi, it will keep k lbng time if properly, preserved. :.