DISMAL DAYS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 111, 12 May 1910, Page 8

DISMAL DAYS.

To-day an hour's sunshine came to gladden Wellington after nearly a w-eek of dark sides, but it seems that the brightness has been merely a lucid interval between two depressions. The recenC glooni has been due to a northern low pressure, which, has obsessed 'New Zealand since last Saturday, and now there is a prospect that a southerly will complete the round of sad weather. A southerly movement, due to a low pressure from tho west, may affect Welling•ton to-night, but po definite time is ■ fixed. The prospective invader is backed up by another low pressure, and the presence of this rearguard complicates the calculation of the front-ranker's onset. It is also likely that the northern low pressure will continue to have some influence in the top part of New Zealand, and the product of the two disturbances will be the affliction known as "the double buster." It is anticipated that southerly winds will sweep much of New Zealand's coast. The weather threatens to be unsettled for two or three days.

Mr. Bowen, chief steward of {he New Zealand Shipping Company's Kaipara, tell down one of the holds of the vessel this morning and dislocated his left shoulder. He is also injured internally, and his condition is regarded as serious. He has been removed to the hospital. The .icciclent occured -wlnle Mr. "Bowen was mtikiug his way to the steamer's stoieroom. Eastbourne Anglicans are gratified at the Miccehs which has attended their efforts so far to have a church of thenown at Rona Bay. Laht year some twelve or fourteen wors-hippers met in the schoolroom for divine service. On Sunday next, the congregation which has now grown to between 40 and 50 members will meet in its new church for the lii-at time. The Bi§hop of Wellington (Dr. Wallis) will formally open the church on Saturday, and the Mayor of Eastbourne (Mr. Shortt) and councillors ate expected to be present. The church building, which ih of pretty Gothic design, ia in concrete, luugh-cabt on the outside and plastered within. Jt is ; loofed with red asbestos tiles and surmounted by a slender .steeple rising from the gable end. The' furniture is eh jelly in kauri. The principal timbers are of jarrah left plain so as to show th-? beauty of the wood, and the ceiling i.-> of Oregon pine showing the natural grain. Mr. F. de^J. Gere is the architect. The church stands on three-fifth* of an acre, and there is sufficient land for the erection of a parsonage and school. The church building will be used exclusively for divine wors-hip. The local Anglicans faced a deht of £1200 for church building and land, and to-dny £600 oi the debt has been extinguished,.