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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 860, 11 August 1879, Page 2

A sale of horses was recently held at which the traditional lowest value of a "pound a leg" was entirely disregarded. The four animals included m ;the sale by auction (remarks, the Lytteltbn Times) had been quartered m the Heathcote Pound, and when they were submitted to the hammer one was sold at five shillings, one athalf-a-crown, and the two others at a shilling each. Even at these decidedly extraordinary prices one of the shilling animals did not really find a customer at auction, • but had to be subsequently d^spostd of by private treaty. The Dunedin Tribune says : — " The remains of little Laura Jackson, the child . that unhappily met with her death by fire on Tuesday last, were interred m the Northern Cemetery, when ' the aunounce- ' ment that Mrs. Hardiuge Britten would officiate m the performance- of the funeral rites attracted an immense gathei ing. The services were very reverential, and doubtless afforded the bereaved parents all the consolation they . could receive m their child's melancholy fate. Mrs. Britten, standing beside the cofßu, uttered a fervent prayer, followed by an address explanatory of the hopes and aspirations with which Spiritualists regard the shedding of the mortal body m ' the change called death.' After the coffin was lowered into the grave, - Mrs. Britten invited the assembled throbg to join herself and 'the arisen spirit' m pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, when the service ended." It is rather singular to find " The Lord's Prayer" made use of by Mrs. Britten: 1/his " ; lady I has already given to the world a hew decalogne of her own .composition ; ' and it ,is therefore strange that she should have countenanced a formula so old-fashioned.