Thxbe is a very affecting incident related in tbe Taranaki Herald. We only wonder how it got there. It is as follows :-—" There is a story tolft of a pair of* shipwrecked •ailors, who in an open boat, on a stormtoned sea, felt that their end was near, and naturally their minds ,tended to religion. Neither of the worthy Jacks could pray, • preach, or even perpetrate a hymn ; but one of them was fortunately so far equal to the occasion that he could " make a collection, that was the only religious rite he was well acquainted with. If our Masterton contemporary did not chide us for ill temper and spleen, we should have said that the Taranaki people were all like shipwrecked sailors, and that they kept the Colonial Treasurer to " make a collection " for them. But we let the occasion pass. —Wairarapa Standard.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3753, 7 January 1881, Page 3
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