News Items.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 1 June 1918, Page 96

News Items.

Tfje:. regret,, thAt, the _,^Gazette" is ■vbeing : . published ; . a, week, late this, month owing. to no, fault on th,e ;| part either; .of; the editor or. the. publishers.. TKe^Rev;; X; E. Maclean, ■&&:, o£ -. -Eotor.ua, -has been ■ appointed Vicar . of Woodville, ■ and he commences his duties-there on July .Ist.. ■ : - r The Eev. Fi ■• A; Spehcerj : ■ organiser for " the Bi; and F. Bible Society, reports tlie following total- receipts :— ' Total) 1917^- £3163 ;■ 1918, General Fund, £4269;- Emergency Fund, £4697 v Of -this HawKe's Bay, Poverty Bay and 'Bay : 6f ; Plenty Have contributed' ; (1917) £554, (1918) '£658, E.F. (1918) ■ £102. - .- ■■■■■ ■-■• ■•" •■ . : .-:: ..■:■:■

..: Captain A. Allen, of New Plymouth, has promised. to give a series of monologue entertainments m this Diocese' towards the end of June, the proceeds to be devoted to the Church Army Hut or War Children 's Fund or the Rotorua institute, .as may be locally decided. We hope he will receive a hearty welcome and the support which these objects deserve. Would those who -would like a visit from Captain • Allen please communicate at once with Mr Whibiey? The Bishop has received. an, appeal for help from the/ Bishop .of : North Queensland. Our readers will remember ; the recent cyclonic storm there which, wrecked the town. of Mackay. An apiDealin Australia has made good the church's losses at Mackay. -Another violent cyclone has wrecked the churches m the Innisfail district,

and the Bishop is appealing further afield for Innisf ail. ,Will all who are willing to help send donations to the Diocesan Secretary, Napier? .' . • The Canon . . Had arranged, for some, children's services during Holy week, and .a lady, saw %wo little boys.. gazing . through' the porch" door, so she, took, them m with her. During an elp-; quent discourse on. the brass gates, of Jerusalem the lad turned to one' of the youngsters . and asked what ; 'he thought. of them. "They must ha^. „,the spmetliiig. , •veered: .audibly, .*; Wflen, w^ljL.tlm ; Qauon. ,