INANE SACRILEGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10498, 5 July 1910, Page 1

INANE SACRILEGE.

(Per' Press Association.) New Plymouth, July 4. Yesterday : : morning some' evilly-dis-posed or 'mentally deficient person entered St. Mary's Anglican Church, evidently' some time between 9 and 10 o'clock,' and threw tho communion linen on "the floor arid'-filled "the' chalice with wine .'-from .'flagons'.. ."* ' ~Tho , vicar .arid churchwardens are; making I 'strong 'effqrtst.fo 'discover the. culprit iiV order "to 'bring him to. book. Inquiry on this matter shows:that Whitely rChurch lias been ti-oubled; in a similar manner on two or three Sundays lately. In one instance, when the outrage must have' been"committed .at some' time between "four o'clock arid "Bhe fevening service, the miscreant took the bread of the sacrament from the table tand. distributed it over the floor. Other Jininor sacrilegious, acts have been comi?hritted, such Its pulling the cushions off r-'tlie :seats,i 'scattering; and so i'bn.,:' ;.-* 5 "'f -