A SILARP CLAP REVERBERATING THUNDER.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 4

A SILARP CLAP REV E RB ERATI N G THUNDER.

and -o tlii-- la->t Wattle melody is -.oiimlnl id the cold unheeding eai - of the man ulio lowd i( w) well. Tuehe stalwart coldiicN now take hold of the Empdoi^ colliii (how cirehdly and tenderly they lift, (-/lie woiojit ') and to" the solemn tone, of {lie |)<;«dii)f> oviftm hvny it out, to the waiting hear^o. C'oiii|janics ot inl'anliy ojijwsite the church door present amis, and tlic hands with mutiled diums htust out with the M,i{iin-> of " -lesus, icfuoc of my soul '' Strong, williiur handh noon adjust the collin on the hearer ,md pile it lound with some ol the choicest lloivil ollci'in^e. A;- a pageant t^hu pvoeresion down tlic Liiwlcn - a\(;nue would have been moio l)iilliant but tor thr cold, which obliged all the eoldieih to wear their o\cicoath. Tho •>ombro dir^s ot the troop* Was. however, in keeping with the occasion, and the spectacle as seen from the Brandenburg; (iatu, jilony t'lic whole extent of the 1od«^ In oad sticet was strikint; and grand. There was a moment, when, the whole pioce^bion bein<r on the move, and thu entire '