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of interment at the All Soul’s Convent, but could not be buried there in consequence of a recent order from the Home Secretary for the closing of burying grounds, the newer portion of All Saints being excepted for a few years longer. Some of Cunningham’s co-religionists attended his funeral, and afterwards held a characteristic Irish Wake. They got themselves thoroughly inebriated, and almost set the neighbourhood in an uproar with their strange freaks.
Enormous Soles, a pair of which weighed 5lbs 6ozs, were exhibited by Messrs. Ball and Stace on the 18th of September.
Municipal Elections. East Ward – W. Ginner 341 votes; Jno. Duke, 263; Jno. Reeves, 262; H. N. Williams, 237. West Ward – S. Putland, 137; J. Beck, 123.
Church Matters; Sermons, Collections &c.
Church Matters
The Training College of the Church of England was benefited to the amount of £34 by a collection after service at St. Mary’s, on the 12th of January.
The New Church, erected for fishermen in Rock-a-Nore road, was opened for service on Sunday, March 26th.
School-aid Sermons were preached on the 23rd of April, and realised £12 6s. at All Saint, £35 12s. at St. Clement’s, and £70 at St. Mary’s; thus shewing, as in all similar cases, the comparative wealth of the parishes.
Thanksgiving Sermons for the harvest were preached on the 1st of October and collections made as follows:- St. Clement’s, £28 (sent to London for sufferers by cholera); St, Mary’s £53 (for building a school classroom); St. Leonards, £65, (for relief of families of sailors and soldiers serving in the war); and St. Mary Magdalen £86 (for building church steeple).
A Sermon by the Bishop of Natal, at St. Mary Magdalen’s on Oct. 15th realised £52 on behalf of the heathen tribes in the district; and at St. Leonards church, £20 was collected for the same object.
A School-aid Sermon at St. Leonards Church, on the 26th of November obtained an offertory of £36.
Sermons for the Infirmary and Dispensary, on Dec. 10th, realised £43 at St. Mary-in-the-Castle; £21 at St. Clement’s, £11 at All Saints; and £3 at Halton.
A New Chapel for the Calvinists was contracted, some time in March, to be built in Cambridge road, for the Rev. C. Pavey, who was then holding services in Mr. Banks’s schoolroom. The contractors were Mr. George Clark Jones and Mr. T. Pickering. The cost was to be £1200. The foundation stone was laid on the 18th of April, and the opening service was held on the 18th of October – exactly six months later. There were, indeed, three services during the day, between which were a cold collation in the afternoon and a tea in the evening. These were partaken of at the Royal Oak hotel. The contributions to the building fund amounted to about £50.
