collected on that occasion after an appropriate sermon. Hollington also gave its mite, and - to write paradoxically a rather large mite to the Lancashire Relief Fund. Its little isolated church received the donations of the parishioners to the extent of £22 on the 7th of December, which amount was sent to the central committee. On the following Sunday (Dec. 14th) two sermons were preached in the church of St. Matthew, and a sum of £28 was collected for the Lancashire fund. The entire sum got together at this time by the clergy, the Mayor and a committee of other gentlemen, was £2,500. The two grand concerts given at Christmas by Mr. Lockey in the Music Hall realised a surplus of £25 for the same object. The National Schoolchildren of St. Leonards-on-sea collected £4 17s. 9d. for the relief fund. They had previously collected £3 10s. within the space of two ays; hence, the distressed operatives might be said to have had sympathising and energetic help where least they might have been looked for. Details of other church offertories and collections from some minor sources, together with the list of private subscriptions, are not conveniently within reach; but the total amount which had passed through the Committee's hands up to the end of the year was £2,291 12s. 7d.; and of this £1,000 had been sent to the Central Committee at Manchester.
Schools and School Treats
The British-School Boys were publicly examined at the Hastings Mechanics’ Institution on the 4th of March, before Mr. C. F. Vardy, of the Normal College Borough road. The examination consisted of writing, arithmetic, history, geography and essays on scriptural subjects. Maps and drawings of some of the older pupils were also exhibited. Maps of Palestine were drawn from memory; and altogether most of the boys showed a very satisfactory degree of proficiency.
The New Building For the erection of the new British Schools, tenders were received in November from Messrs. Broadbridge, (illegible text), Hoadle and Vidley; the tender of the first named (£444 10s.) being accepted.
School Sermons preached at various churches on Sunday, April 27th, were pecuniarily beneficial as follows:- St. Leonards £21; St. Mary-in-the-Castle, £50; St. Clement's, £20; All Saints £20; plus the odd money.
A School Treat Through the liberality of Mr. J. Rock, sen. in the month of July, the St. Mary's of Hastings, commendably initiated its namesake of St. Leonards, by a substantial repast to about 70 of the young men and lads belonging to its Evening School. They met in the schoolroom on the evening of the 14th and partook of an excellent tea, after which, rewards were distributed for good conduct and regular attendance.
The Evening Schools of St. Mary's-in-the-Castle, St. Clements, and All -
