GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8964, 4 November 1907, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

berthings, it is kuowu, will occasionally figure in church .offertories, but the donors seldom meet with such reproof as is meted out in the parish magazine of St. Andrew s, Hertford. The editor of the Magazine says:—“A farthing was placed m 'the offertory at the 7.80 am. celebration on St. James’s Day.. We are charitable enough to think that the coin was put in the bag by mistake for half a sovereign. If we are wrong in that surmise, and if the farthing was offered with the full knowledge that it was a farthing, then we can only characterise this incident as the most disgraceful that has come under our notice during our ministerial career, and we can only express the fervent hope that, for her ownteake, the lady will forthwith make amends for that flagrant insult to the solemn service at the altar. To avoid a repetition of that occurrence a plate will in future be used on week davs instead of a bag. Bishop Thornton, of Blackburn, is not afraid to tell a story ngamst himself During the quarter century he laboured.in Australia as Bishop of Ballarat, he had a vast extent of country to supervise. One dark, stormy night ho struck a lonely township, and made his way to the only building that was illuminated, the office of the local newspaper. I The Bishop knocked at the door, and lin response a head was protruded | from an upper window. In reply to I the challenge, “ Who's there?’’ he answered ‘ l l am the Bishop of Ballarat. Would you kindly direct me to the nearest hotel?” At this wholly unexpected midnight announcement the head was abruptly withdrawn. Then there was a burst of ribald laughter from the composing room. Presently the head re-appeared at the window, and the ‘‘father of the chapel,” as the type-setters call their chief, gave the prelate this parting piece of advice: —‘‘Book hero, old man, you’ve had quite enough hotel for one night; go homo and go to bed, or you’ll be run in as sure as eggs. ’ ’ The troubles of a laundress were aired at the meeting of the Dunedin Benevolent Trustees. Mr Burnett said he thought that an experienced laundress would have no difficulty in getting six days’ work a week. ‘‘Yes,” said the woman, ‘‘you would think so, hut many people expect you to do a fortnight’s washing in half a day, just as if a washerwoman was a ni'achiue. Some ladies make m,e work till 3.80 p.m., and then oulv payino for half a day. It’s as much as I can do to earn 15s a week in the best of times. ” Mr Burnett offered tier a day’s washing every week forthwith at a palce where she would not he expected to do the work of a steam laundry. ‘‘All the same,” said Mr Gallaway, as the door closed behind the laundress, “I would like to hoar the other 1 side of the question ”