St Luke’s Church, Greytown.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2010, 29 December 1886, Page 2

St Luke’s Church, Greytown.

The ohnrch of St Lake’*, Qreytown, on Christmas e«e was nicely decorated with evergreens, flowers, devices, and insorip* tions. Over the chancel window were die words, “ Jesus our Immanuel,” and over the church door were the words, “ Hark, the herald angels sing, glory to the new born king.” The lettering had a most pleasing effect. The full choir was present and the Christmas carols were rendered in an excellent manner. The Bev W. T. Western read the lessons, and die Bev Mr Batchelor, of Carterton, delivered a most appropriate and seasonable address. The carol singing was repeated on Christmas Day, in the morning, and also on Sunday.

A “ fogey ” in the Napier Telegraph, write* as follows “ Fall, and possibly interesting to some people, as the ‘ sporting intelligence ’ published from day to day may be, do yon not think that it might do something more than cater for stable boys and amatenr book* makers f lam certain that nine*tenths of newspaper readers never look at a line of the sickening rubbish about horses and horse racing without an exclamation of disgust at so mnoh valuable space being given to that one line of “ sport.” Then again if a lew boys gather together on their Saturday halt holiday, and spend their time knocking a ball about, dignifying their recreation by calling it cricket, there must needs be a quarter of a column of the next day’s set apart for record* ing the number of “ duck’s eggs,” and the names of the redoubtable youths who “ laid them.” 1 ask with all humility if it has never occurred to au editor of a paper that this sporting intelligence, written usually unintelligibly, interests no one but the few who may have been engaged in the “ sport f" And if this be so, why should cricket and horse racing have so much prominence ? ‘Are not the results of other amusements, and other methods of killing time and losing money, equally worthy of being chronicled ? Why do you not have your reporters in every billiard room, at every card table, on every lawn tennis court, in every bowling alley f In a word, why not fill the whole of a newspaper with rubbish, and then, perhaps, in the 1 course of nature, the existing lot of journals would develop into Sporting News, pure and simple, and leave the field open for the establishment of papers that would cater for the more intelligent of the human race.

Tbe new Enfield rifle has been finally rejected by tbe English Army authorities, be. cause it is thought to be too complicated tor service. It will be used, however, pending the selection of another weapon. From 1000 to 1500 workmen mast be discharged from tbe Government factory at Enfield on aooonnt of this durifi'Mti