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Evening Star, Issue 7332, 3 October 1887, Page 4

Replying to a question put in the Synod as to the introduction of the revised edition of the Bible into churches, Dr Barry, Primate of Australia, said that it had not been as yet thought necessary to take any collective action, each bishop being left to his own discretion. For himself, although he doubted whether he had power formally to authorise the use of the revised version in the churches, he should raise no objection to any clergyman using his discretion in reading from that version on any occasion; being convinced that, as compared with the old version, it was a far more accurate rendering of the original, though perhaps occasionally less beautiful in style, and that it had especial value in the poetical and prophetical books of the Old, and in the Epistles of the New Testament. A singular case of attempted bribery of a police officer is, mentioned. A constable stationed in the north of Auckland recently received an envelope addressed to him, enclosing Ls. There wag nothing to indicate from whom the erjvplope and enclosure had come beyond the handwriting of the address; but a little investigation showed that the writer was a person interested in getting a license for his house. The constable, with considerable honesty, sent the envelope and money to the Inspector of his dlutript, with a letter explaining the whole particulars, and stating that It was, in his opinion, neither more nor less than a bribe. The Commissioner bas directed that the money should be banded over to the Auckland Benevolent Trustees, as moppy sent the police as an attempted bribe. The will of a Kingston (N.y.) woman gives all far property £o her husband for life, or "so long as he shall remain unmarried."