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Evening Star, Issue 15778, 15 April 1915, Page 8

Even such a eci dous business as the pro war cannot .pieach the Briton's love rf sport, and in a letter recently received iu Xapier the writer, who is serving in H.M.S. Shannon, in command of Admiral flough-Calthorpe, describes how he, with a few others from the same ship, were allowed on shore for a short time in order to play a football match with a team from the lion Dnko (Admiral Jellicoe's ship), familiarly called in the, Xavy the “'JL'in Duck.” The match was played in a friendly spirit, and the X'ew Zealander—being a Xew Zealander—was set to mark Davies, the Welsh international player, who was a member of the Iron Duke’s team. The writer modestly remarks that some of his bruises show that the marking was not all on one side. However, though the Iron Duke’s team were victorious on that occasion, in a return match the Shannon team, scored a win, and so made matters even. The effect of the war on the religious life of •Sie community was referred to by the .Rev. JL 51, Johnson in his sermon at St. haul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral at Wellington on Sunday morning. Mr Johnson said that the Easter which had just passed had been a memorable one in the history of the parish. There were 450 communicants on Easter day, which was a record for St. Paul’s, and he believed that similar increases had been experienced in other Wellington parishes. There were unmistakable indications of a revival of religion in Britain, France, and Russia since the outbreak of the war, and he believed that a similar revival was just beginning to make iteelf felt, in Zealand*