An elderly and good-natured spinster, on being rallied as to her " single blessedness," declared, "I never yet have lost heart, because I have always kept in constant remembrance the fact that Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was fiVp- h"iidrcu. and eighty years old when she got married." Prom 16,000 to 20,000 Sunday-school children connected with the Church of England took part in the Whit-Monday procession in Manchester. Mr "Walter Montgomery has accepted an engagement to visit Australia for two years, and Jias taken his berth on board the Grent Britain, sailing in September. It is stated that there is a "priest " somewhere in Cornwall who goes about ia a red cassock, and aaysheis "adopting the dress of the Greek Church." Mr John Moss, of Maulds Meaburn, "Westmoreland, has a cat at present suckling three young rats. Its own kittens had been thrown into the river. Next morning the rats were found in their place ; where they came from is. a mystery. jg -^
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Southland Times, Issue 544, 20 August 1866, Page 3
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