School Notes- Church Matters
St. Mary in the Castle Schools had collected for them, after sermons on Sunday April 20 the sum of £46 7s. 7d.
The St Leonards National School children had their annual treat in the St. Leonards Assembly Rooms on the 16th of October. They numbered 300 and walked in procession to the rooms, where a liberal supply of tea, cake and buns, was provided by Mr. Carey, after which part-songs were sung by the children, an address given by the Rev. Chalmers, and dissolving views exhibited by Mr. Banks.
The St. Mary Magdalen New Schools were opened on October 6th, by a sermon at the church by the Rev. W. W. Hume, and by a dinner of roast-beef to about 140 children in the school-rooms. Games and other amusements were engaged in after dinner, and in the evening, both the children and their parents were regaled with a tea. The scheme of education The whole expense was borne by the Dowager Lady St. John. The scheme of education was a most liberal one. Both boys and girls were to be taught scripture catechism, reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, English History and choral singing, whilst those boys whose parents desire it would be further taught drawing, book-keeping, mensuration, land-surveying, geometry, algebra, music, Universal History, a general view of manufacture and practical gardening. The girls would also be taught needlework, and for those for whom it would be thought needful or desirable would further be taught Universal History, drawing, music, cooking, baking and household work. The schools were to be under the superintendance of Mr. Chealse and Miss Caldwell.
An Industrial Kitchen in connection with the above named schools having been provided for the instruction of a certain number of pupils in cooking, baking and domestic economy, with the approval of the Committee of Council on Education, it was proposed to raise a fund for the purpose of making it also available as an invalid kitchen.
Church Matters
Proposed New Church. At a vestry meeting of the parish of Holy Trinity held at the Wellington Inn on the 21st of January, the chairman, MR. G. C. Hope, stated that it appeared the three parishes of Holy Trinity, St. Michael's and St. Andrew could not be consolidated into one district as was wished without the agency of a special Act of Parliament, but a church could be built for Holy Trinity under the provisions of the "Private Patronage Act" since the parish was not ecclesiastically constituted. For that purpose it was necessary to give a legal notice to the Biships of the intention to build and endow a church. The only remaining difficulty was to find a gentleman in the parish willing to give the notice, which would not involve any personal responsibility.
A second meeting was held two days later, when Mr. Hope stated that no parishioner could be found to undertake the responsibility of giving the requisite notice, and he then read some correspondence which had-
