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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 440, 29 December 1876, Page 2

Caledonian Sports.—The prises for these sports appear in this mornings issue. Waiapu Riding.—lt will be seen that Captain Porter has been elected, unopposed, for the Waiapu Riding. The Counties Act.—We present our readers this morning with a gratis copy of the Comities Act, in the hope that they will read, mark, learn, and mentally digest its contents. £5 Reward.—Mr J. King of Karawa, offers £5 reward for the restoration of a pocket book, containing money, and valuable papers of no use to anyone else. Waebenga-a-hika Rack Cards. — Much annoyance was caused on the course on Tuesday last, on account of tJie "mixed up” state of the programme cards. They were compiled in the order furnished to us by the Secretary to the Club. Divine Services, To-morrow, Sunday.—Church of England—The Rev. E. Williams, Holy Trinity Church, 11 a.m., and 10.45 p.m., midnight service ; Makaraka, 3 p.m. At the close of the midnight service the Holy Sacrament will be administered.—Wesleyan.—The Rev. W. S. Harper, Wesleyan Church, 11 a.m., and 7 p.m., and at Mr King’s school room at 2.30 p.m.—Presbyterian.—The Rev. W.H. Root, Ormond, 11 a.m., Matawhero, 3 p.m., and St. Andrew's 7 p.m. There will be a watch night meeting in St. Andrew’s, at 11 p.m.

St. John’s Day.—The members of the Turanganui Lodge of Freemasons met in their Hall at High Noon on St. John’s Day. when Bro.| J. Buchanan was installed as W.M. for the ensuing year. A banquet was held at the Masonic Hotel when a most enjoyable evening was passed by .the Brethren present. The usual loyal Masonic toasts having been given, a number of songs were sung and duly appreciated. A collection was made during the evening which will be handed over to the Benevolent Society. The next regular meeting of Lodge will be held on Monday next.

Holy Trinity Church.—’There was a large attendance in the morning, at thia church, on Christmas Pay last, the service on which occasion was a full choral one ; the selections were appropriate, and the singing was very creditably sustained by the choir, whose proficiency is a marked feature under Mr Browne as organist. The Bev. Incumbent preached an impressive sermon from the well known text —“He came unto His own, bat His own received Him not,” exhorting his congregation not to reject the Saviour, as did the Jews, but to shew their acceptance of Him, by heartily participating iu the means He has provided through the comforting sustenance of His Sacraments. The Church was very tastefully decorated, for which the “ labor loving ’’ portion of the congregation deserve great credit.

Funeral Sermon.—The Reverend E. Williams, improved the occasion, presented by the two sudden deaths that lately occurred in Gisborne, by preaching a funeral sermon in Holy Trinity Church, last Sunday evening. The rev. gentleman took his text from the Ist Book of Samuel, XX chapter, and part of the 3rd verse, “ There is but a step between me and death," the warning contained in which, he conveyed to his hearers’ attention with much force, and earnest solicitation entreating them, with great fervor, to apply the words of the text to their own individual cases, and let the uncertainty of life bo an ever-present fact, in their daily lives. Mr Williams drew a forcible, and vivid illustration of the folly of living with our minds and faculties wholly engrossed by the cares of this world, while we are uncertain of its tenure, and unmindful of the world to come. The congregation was a large one. and the preacher rivetted their attention in an eloquent peroration, which we regret not having room for.

Sib Donald McLean. —We much regret to hear that the late Native Minister, Sir Donald McLean, is lying at the point of death. A few days since, he was removed from his station at Maraekakahrt, to Napier, and so necessary was it tp preserve the comfort of the patient, that an ordinary journey of a few hours, occupied 3 days. Sir Donald McLean is constantly attended by his medical advisers, who, we are sorry to say, have pronounced him beyond recovery. And this so soon after obtaining his hardearned honors 1 Sic transit gloria mundi. We have seldom penned anything that gave us greater pain.