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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 289, 23 April 1889, Page 3

In his lecture in Auckland, the Rev, Mr Ward related, amongst other stories, how, when attending one Sunday divine service, conducted by his " pater,’’ in the early days in Taranaki, in a small tuupo wha>e, grandiloquently termed a churcb, a sadden gust of wind blew the whole side of the frail edifice down on top of the assembled worshippers, who were at the time, appropriately enough, engaged in taking in an eloquent address on the subject ” The wind bloweth where it listeth.” He was only ■ boy at the time— and a " doonright bad ’un" at that—but he was, he said, shocked at the unceremonious and unseemly haste with | which those earnest Christians ” vamoosed ths ranch," without even waiting for the I uOiUotioa.