MISCELLANEOUS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 874, 27 August 1879, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The recent championship of the cause of the deceased wife's sister by the Prince of Wales has had no effect upon the church. At Circencester M. T. Wilkins married a lady who, was not only the sister of his late wife,' but also the daughter of the parish churchwarden ; and complaint has been made to the Bishop of Glouster and Bristol that the vicar refused to administer the sacrament to her. His lordship supports the refusal as being in accordance with 'the law of the Church and the law .of the land. ' Yet, a short time ago, when a husband died, leaving a legacy to his deceased wife's sister, ,the law declared her a stranger in blood, and demanded ten per cent. duty. Had he lived and wished to marry her, the same law would have said, ' No, she is your sister.' We should like to hear the bishop's opinion of this conflict between law and justice. The longest subterranean construction iu the' world is in the mines of Freyburg, in Saxony. A series of galleries, which were begun in the twelfth century, reached in 1835 a length of 123 miles, and had yielded an immense quantity of silver. In 1833 a new gallery was commenced, which was finished, a year ago, and is eight miles long. . - Nobody likes to be nobody; but everybody is pleased to think himself somebody.. And everybody is somebody but when anybody thinks himself somebody, he generally thinks everybody else is nobody.

It will be -remembered by those who have lived in Ohristchurch that when an American paid-a visit to that city of the plains he exclaimed, on seeing the partly constructed Cathedral, " Why, darn it, I didult know this country was so ancient ! How old may them thar' ruins be?" It appears that "ruins" are not to be ruins much longer, for we received last evening among the Christchurch " special " rubbish the following item :—" At general meeting Cathedra^ lield lasFniglit Dean stated seconftcbTumnr in interior working commenced, and was hoped commence roof before long. This marked progress was heard withastonishment by the few present." " What a rough fellow that Sniggins w ! petulantly exclaimed the Hopedale girl after a struggle with the aforesaid uW*, 8 ' "He nearly smothered me Y\ And did you kiss him for his mother V asked the other miss naively.