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New Zealand Mail, Issue 765, 29 October 1886, Page 20

Some interesting details (the Levant Herald gays) have come to hand respecting the capture by brigands of Monsignor Kyrilioa, Greek Metropolitan of Elaascma. The captors of the Greek prelate ask a ransom of £1,6000, knowing him to be very rich and in a position to pay the amount. It is said that the brigands cause the Bishop to read a mass every day, and oblige him to pray for the success of their undertakings, after which they'all kneel down aad piously receive his episcopal benediction. These religious bandits treat th-ir prisoner very humanely, and do everything ip their power to make him while sway the tedious hours of solitude in an agreeable manner. The Bishop is trying bard to convert these outlaws, and it seems that his exhortations have at least had a temporary effect, as all the bandits have with a touching unanimity declared upon their conscience that they would abandon their terrible calling and return into the town for the purpose of plying an honest trade—as soon as the Bishop’s ransom is paid.

In the fourteenth century the little village of Worsted, near Norwich, first produced that stuff which still bears its name, and worsted work hangings did for the middle classes that which tapestry did for the upper.