THAT HORRID BELL.
"Sift,— Can you tell me who it respomsiVle fortbe Changing of the bell ofSt Peter's Church, Hamilton, in it* present position, parson, churchwardens, 'or reitrymen ? If the bell is intended to call people to 'Church, it performs, at least, a double jfety : driving them oat who hare already as'tembled there, for the greater part of the lound it retained inside the -Church, »nd it it a complete nuisance t« any one who has ithe full seme of hearing. Perhaps this may account for 4o many of the congregation timing their arriral >»t churoh just as the bill has stopped and the tervice begins.— l am, &c, Sulla. Hamilton, April 17th, 1876. [Neither OParuon, Vestrymen, 'nor 'Churchwardens had the filing of the boll where it is, 'but theßuildinj'Co»mitteB. The three <eitatas •can now 'however remedy* \»hat know is generally considered by early church-goert a/% no 'little annoyance. Indeed It would be ai well .if 'the bell were lehunjj altogether, for .the pepper 'box additirta to the oatside of ithe church iin which 'itiJ contained is the only blemish on an •otherwise ; pretty .little 'building--—Ed W TO
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 610, 18 April 1876, Page 3
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188THAT HORRID BELL. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 610, 18 April 1876, Page 3
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