NEW CHURCH AT COLLINGWOOD.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 77, 24 January 1872, Page 4

NEW CHURCH AT COLLINGWOOD.

TO THE EDITOB OP THE ' NELSON EXAMINES.' Mustee Hedditue —Hi bees a diggur at Kollinwud, an hi wonts tv kno, whi timmer for nu pleace o' wurshup his tv li rottin on t' roade sid ? Thear lub a cotnittee Hi hearn; wot is urn doin ? Kan yo teil Hi? Ween got anu minstur, an he as tv precch in t' librare. Grund an oil is reddy, an urn doo saa at muny is oil reet. Hi wish yoo ud pok hup t' Bishup, an git im too rite too them ere chaps wots got duin o' hit. Hi is yoor umbel sarvint, A DIGEB AND A ChOOBCIIMON.

Killing Soebel. —ln a communication to the Gerinantown Telegraph, Mr. Josiah Clark, of Muncheeter, N.H., Buys :—": —" Sorrel is not, as is generally supposed, the result of sour soil, but the reverse. Observing years ago that sorrel was more abundant on sweet than eour 6oil I hauled apple pomace on a piece where nothing but sorrel grew, and harrowed it and grass seed in. The result was sorrel disappeared and grass came in its stead. Anything that tends to sour, with fertile matter added, will work a cure just as alkali rectifies the acidity in the stomach. The sour waste of breweries, coarse, wet, Bour litter, vinegar, or anything that is sour, worked into the surface of the soil, will tend to eradicate sorrel. — Neio York Tribune. THE Natubb OF AN Oath. —Early in the rebellion, when the Federal forces were stationed at Beaufort, South Carolina, there was an old darkey by the name of Li^e Jackson, who, deserted by his master, was left to take care of himself as beßt he might. Lige was considered a chattel of weak intellect, and, moreover, he was exceedingly awkward in his attempts to play the role of a house-servant. Ho smashed and destroyed pretty nearly everything he laid his hands upon, and, having waited upon nearly every officer of the post, each in turn, after giving him the benefit of a good cursing for his stupidity, turned him adrift. It happened that Lige was a witness in a case that came before a court-martial, and, being called upon to give his testimony, was objected to on the part ol the defendant, who stated that, he didn't believe the nigger was of sound wind. "Stand up, Lige," said the Court. "Doyou understand the nature of an oath ?" Lige scratched his wool for a moment, and then turning up the white of his eyes, replied : " Look a yeare, marse; dis nigger had waited on 'bout haf de ossifers since dey fus cum to dis place, and if he don't stand do natur of an oaf by did time, den dares no wirtuc in ussing." The Court considered Lige a competeut witness. Nobton and Co.'s Watches. —The 12-dollar Lever Watch, No. 13,580, purchased from Chas. P. Norton and Co., 86 Nassau-street, New York, January sth, has been carried by me over six months, with a total variation in time of only 26 seconds, without the slightest regulating, and presents the eaine brilliancy of colour as when purchased.—James R. Wilson, Sec. A.S.M. Co., N.Y.—New York, July 30,1870.'