HARVEST FESTIVAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 7

HARVEST FESTIVAL.

The Harvest Festival in connection with the Te A roll a Wesleyan Church took place last Wednesday evening. During the day the Church had been very prettily decorated with evergreens, flowers, corn, fruit, etc. There were several appropriate mottoes on the walls, conspicuous among which was one worked in iry-leaves and red benies on a white ground, showing the words, "Lord of the harvest, All is Thine. 11 An arch of willows surmounted the rostrum, while at each corner was a sheaf of oats, and on each side of the reading desk was a small sheaf of wheat. On a table in front of the rostrum, and reaching nearly across the Church, was a fine display of fruits, vegetables, etc., the free- will oJlerings of the people. There was a good congregation in the evening, and the service was conducted by the Rev, S. Lawry. lie apologised for the absence of Mr W. J, Elliott, who was expected to fake part in the meeting, but wjis unable to be present on account of sickness. The musical portion of the service was marred owing to some acccident happening to the haimonium, to the great disappointment of i t U. The Uev S. Lawry delivered an appiopiiate address on "The Harvest as the witness of God's power and goodness." At the close of the service the numerous gifts were disposed of to ready binders, the pro* eeeils being devoted to the circuit funds. "We would" Ktiegest that these interesting services might be more generally held, especially in the country distiicts, as the autumn Reason comes round year by year.

A Dunedin coroner's jury has been guilty of h " bull " in the following curious verdict :— u That the infant was found drowned, but whether it was born alive or dead there is no evidence to show."