"HOSPITAL SUNDAY" IN MELBOURNE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 298, 16 October 1873, Page 5

"HOSPITAL SUNDAY" IN MELBOURNE.

As our telegrams told us, the hospital Sunday movement — which we would like to see inaugurated in Dunedin — was very successful, and with the proceeds of the Hospital Saturday fund, to which the City firms and their employe's contribute, will yield over L 4,000 for distribution among the charities of the Victorian metropolis. Of the results of this appeal, we read that among the fixed congregations, that of Chalmer's Church headed the list with the handsome contribution of L 10 0; Scots' Church, Collins street, took second place with L 93;9 3; and the next best contributions were : Rev. Mr Henderson's church, LB7 ; All Saints, St. Kilda, L7B ; St. Francis' (Roman Catholic), L 72;7 2; Collins street Baptist Church, L 67 ; St. Peter's, L 66 ; and St. Patrick's (Roman Catholic), L 64. , It shonld be mentioned that St. Francis' contributed LI 18 to th c Melbourne Hospital on Good Friday. Jn theeveningi.OGO people listened to the Ajv. Mr Clark at the Uheatre Royal, when "3 collection of Ll4O (the largest of the day) was made ; at the afternoon service of the Town Hall by Bishop Perry, LlO6 15s 5d was received ; at the volunteer parade at East Melbourne, L4B. Collections were made at 180 places of worship, and boxes were placed at the entrances to the public gardens. According to churches, the collections were : — Church of Ingland, L 74 9; Roman Catholic, L 22 0; Presbyterians, L 64 3; Independents, L 25 3; Baptist, L 184; t/esleyan, L 286; Jewish, L 130; Welsh, Ll7; Unitarians, Ll6 ; misceUaneous churches, L 14 3; at volunteer parades, &c , L 428.