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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 196, 5 January 1877, Page 8

A horrible story is abroad concerning Mr. Samuel Lester, of Shelter Island, who recently suddenly died, as was supposed, at Norwich, and whose body was taken home for interment. It is to the effect that the person employed to fill the grave while doin<>- so heard strange noises coming from the coffin, as of a man trying to break his way out. The report continues than the <van superstitiously fled, to return soon after and hear the noise repeated j that he finally filled up the grave, but said nothing concerning what he had heard until some days after. The coffin was after aNvhiio exhumed, and it was found that the man had been buried alive, the evidences of a struggle for release from his awful fate bein<* painfully apparent.— New Haven ' Palladium,' September 19. ° At Ziillichau (Silesia), on August 23, the Emperor, William, received at the railway station, where he was passing, a deputation of Protestant clergymen. Addressing them his Majesty said :^ You have a great and important charge in the Fatherland. You must maintain and strengthen faith and religion in the people. But this is not all ; you must also wake up this faith. This is an* important mission, and a heavy and toilsome task, especially now when faith has sunk so low, and religion is assailed in so many ways." The s.s. Oriental was in the cyclone at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday the 7th October, about 100 miles off Calingapatam. She passed right through the cyclone, and when in its centre experienced a perfect calm. Quite a number of birds and butterflies took refuse on the vessel when in the centre of the cyclone, and were so exhausted that they suffered themselves to be cau *ht by the hand The steamer lost three of her boats, while two of°the crew nearly lost their lives. On emerging from the centre, and passin* through the storm ring, the gale was terrific. The direction of the cyclone is supposed to have been from the east to west The period occupied by the vessel in passing through it was about four and a-half hours.— • C. Examiner.'