A Bishop's Story.
The Bishop of Christchureh, at the Church Missionary Society's meeting held at Christchurch on Friday evening related a striking incident in the life of his grandparents. Kis grandfather, he said, after a sojourn in India, before the days of the Peninsular and Orient steamers, engaged a passage for England by a sailing ship; a new vessel which was to leave India at the same time as the ship, a worn-out, cranky old tub, which she had replaced He then went up country on business, leaving his wife in port. -This lady in his absence, went to dinner at the Residency, and there met the captains of the two ships. The commander of the new ship swore frightfully and drank freely, while the other was quiet and gentlemanly in his manner. '? he lady, shocked and disgusted, vcwed that she would never go to sea with such a drinking, swearing captain, and accordingly transferred her own and her husband's baggage to the old ship. Great was the wrath of her husband when he returned, but he went with her in the leaky vessel, and reached England safely after a terribly rough passage. The new ship, in which she had refused to travel, was never heard of after leaving India.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7496, 20 April 1899, Page 4
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