Bishop of Chester on Dancing

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6443, 12 August 1892, Page 4

Bishop of Chester on Dancing

The Bishop of Chester, in the course of a sermon in Bunbury Church recently to the members of the Prince Albert Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, ay ho were celebrating their anniversary, said that in both Testaments joy was recognised as a necessary and a wholesome part of the human life. If they took away joy the sunshine went out of their lives, and their whole nature began to dwindle away. It was important for parents and instructors of the young to remember that if they left out the element of joy they were leaving out what if judiciously employed was one of the nfost powerful levers for enabling men to live and work. The joy on such occasions as this should, however, be marked by the spirit of temperance and self-control. He saw that among their entertainments there was to be dancing. Not one word could he say against dancing, for the Bible and God in nature spoke of dancing. Surely it was he who put it iuto the feet and limbs of young children. It was a natural thing thing, but like many other good things it had its attending perils, and it was far better for them (the oMer ones) to recognise that frankly, and to see that dancing was carried on under wise and modest restrictions. He a.sked the younger people to enter upon it with watchfulness, with self-restraint, with mutual respect, and with something of the true spirit of chivalry which was so deeply allied with the spirit of Christianity. •

The libel case of Leader v. Strong which will be tried in the course of next week, promises to be exciting in its way as Mrs Florence Osborne's little affair Both persons concerned are ladies, and in respectable middle - class society. Mr Loader is nominally plaintiff, but really (like Mrs Osborne) it. will be she who will be tried. The facts are as follows : — Some eighteen months or two years ago Mrs Strong lost a diamond star at an evening reception. The house where the party took place and the roads thereto were carefully searched, and advertisements inserted in the daily papers, but all to no effect. A year or so later, however, Mrs Strong recognised her star in a local pawnbroker's windo-v. She instantly sought the assistance of a private detective, and ascertained that Mrs. Leader (a friend of her own, and a guest at the party at which the star was lost) had sold tin- ornament to the pawnbroker within a ■week of the reception. Mrs Strong thereupon accused Mrs Loader of the thoft, and demanded restitution. Mrs Leader seemed surprised, but in no way discomposed. She readily admitted the sale, but swore the star was her own — a portion in fact, of some jewellery left her by her mother. As one diamond star of the commoner sort is very much like another, there was no proving this particular one to be the lost ornament. Mrs Strong stoutly declares she would know it amongst a dozen, and branded Mrs Leader to everyone as an audacious thief. Ultimately this action for slander was brought. — London correspondent. A nurseryman named William A 1 * i aged S7 years, was burned todeuf 1 " \ ' 27th ult. at Inkermann, r- -A 1 ( „ Victoria. The old w>- ■«? Diuioll 7' feeble health, liver' . ••". , wh ? } vas . m who worked f- ,; al ". nu ' }> ut hild "^ On the fat-' ' r nnn in the ( ' ay time * and "' "' n 'o nt tne y° utu '^ il candle, \ r ' ' .viter seeing the old man comfortable, -oit. Wlun he. returned the following morning he found the gate unlocked and the horses on the road. The dwelling house and the stables were on fire. He oju-e the alarm, and a search revealed the old man's body, close to where the stables had been. It is supposed that Abel awoke and found the premises on fire, that he went to the stable and released the horses, and then, overcome by weakness or the heat, fell down and was burnt to death. Larrikinism is stated to be becoming an intolerable nuisance in various parts of Sydney. On this subject a Sydney paper of a recent date says ;— " In the larrikin ranks criminals are to be found. Burglary is one of the chief channels through which these characters obtain the wherewithal to mako life endurable. Their method of breaking and entering is very crude, and their work in this hue is characterised by clumsiness. Here is an instance. Only the other day a number of them heaved a large houlder through a window of a tobacconist shop, which made a jagged opening in the glass, and enabled them to get away with goods to the value of Lls, taken out of tho window. .The tobacconist, of course, was awakened by the row, but before he could get downstairs into the shop the gang had vanished with the spoil. Another story of a burglary in the same street as that in which the unEoitunatc tobacconist resided has a lingo of the gruesome about it. The gang broke in at dead of night and carried away almost everything, the master of the house's clothes even. While the robbers were at work the couple living in the house were sound asleep. The thieves secured the carving-knife and placed it between the sleepers to intimate to them when they realised what had taken place how far they could have gone h,d they liked. Other robberies in tho same street have occurred, the perpetrators of which wore well known in the neighborhood, but still the ruffians were j

not brought to book. There is anothei type of larrikin —the moat harmless of all He generally joins a ' push ' out of pun bravado, as it appears to him that to be i larrikin is to be a sort of hero." A port Salvation lasß recently visitec the Sydney Land office on & begging expe dition. The first two men she nieb said —" We don't know anything of the army but each of us will give you halfa-crowr to leave us ia peace, 1' and one giver pro ceeded to put down his initials on thi list. "Hold," quoth the lass. "Goc willing, one only shall sign for five shil lings; if you head the list with half-a crown a-piece none will give more ; toe: up, friends, to decide." They looked a each other, and on second thoughts thi two would-be donators put their half crowns back in their pockets and left That lass ia still thinking over the ok proverb that a bird in the hand is wortl: two in the bush. A terrible accident happened at the Ole Chum Mine, Bendigo, on the 27th ult William Richardson, a miner, who wa working at a depth of 2220 ft, had chargec a hole with gelatine dynamite, and afte lighting the snuff which causes the fuse t< ignite, and thus leads to the explosion o the charge, he signalled to a lad in chargi of the air winch at the 2180 ft plat to hau him up. When nearing the plat Richard son called out that the snuff had gone out and told the boy to lower him. The bo] protested, but Richardson insisted. H< was lowered, when the charge exploded killing him instantly. A fatal case of burning occurred a Mooroopna (Victoria) on the 19th ult Mrs Bentour, aged 83, fell into the lire place, and was unable to rise. Her clothe; caught, and ultimately set fire to tin building. The body was reduced almos to a cinder.