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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2551, 10 March 1877, Page 3

The editor of the New Zealand Licensed Victuallers Gazette has waxed .very irate because" musical and dramatic reporters speak of a •; speech or song, &c, being " rendered." This rexes him sorely.: He says the word ia wrongly used, an 3 that it. ought to apply to talloW chandlers, who " render ' fat into candles, as the original meaning of the word is to " give back." Even if a word is only allowed to be used in one sense, we fail to" see how the querulous editor makes his own case good, unless,; indeed, the candles first possessed the fat which the chandler has to 1 give back to them. First meanings, like first impressions, are not always reliable, and the dictionary gives no less than nineteen meanings to the word ''render," one beingj'" to. express fully, exactly, and forcibly the and spirit of a passage'or book."

The son of a well-known actor recently, at a public examination, in reply to the question, •'" Who was the greatest English divine?" said promptly, " The divine "William."