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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20432, 12 June 1928, Page 16

The Rev. Hugh Hughes, of Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, the Welsh revivalist, who recently celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday, has decided to give up preaching. Mr Hughes, who has preached in almost every town and village in Wales and principal towns in England, has preached three times every Sunday and almost every week night for 65 years without a break. He entered the Wesleyan ministry when 19. It is estimated that he has preached more than 23,000 sermons —more, it is claimed, than any other preacher. A vessel uhich can surely claim to be the world’s oldest seagoing ship is the ketch Cores, 52 tons, of Bude, Cornwail, which recently celebrated its 117th birthday. Built at Salcombe, Devon, in 1811, it has been voyaging ever since, and, according to its master, Captain R. W. Petherick, “ only last October it created a record by bringing three cargoes into Bude from South Wales in nine days.” and is “still classed A 1 by the Board of Trade.” During the war it was fitted j with a little two-stroke engine. Four i generations of Pethericks have sailed on the Ceres, and its present “master” first signed on over half a century ago. There arc 05 different kinds of Brussels sprouts, 120 of lettuces, and 194 of carrots.