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Inangahua Times, Volume II, 1 March 1880, Page 2

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-. ■ ♦ [compiled f som late exchanges.] The Bishop of Guilford (Dr. tJtterton) expired suidenly In All Saiats* church at Ryde, on Sunday morning, December 21sl. At the time he was kneeling before the Cummunion table while those who did not intend communicating left, when he uttered a cry, fell on his face, aud expired from heart; disease. In his sermon he bad just finished, lie spokk ol the many friends the church had lost by death, The church was closed for the rest of the day. The Re?. John Batfenbury, a distiugnished Wesleyan Methodist minister, died at Highbury, on December 21st. After forty years circuit work, he took the Auxiliary Fuud for aiding superannuated ministers m 1 ministers' widows in hand, and succeeded in getting the sum of £100,00 C raised therefore. A sensation occurred at the funeral of Miss Ada Bruin, daughter of Councillor Bruin, at L"ceister. Just as the procession leit the chapel in the cemetery, Mr Joseph Blockley, one of the bearers, dropped down dead. Miss Bruin was drowned while staling on the ice. In the Arches Court, the Eev. Charles Miller, the Vicar of Harlow, who is eighlyslhree years of age, has been con» vieted of habits of intoxication. The Wcslenholm Memorial Hall has been opened at Sheffield. It cost eleven thousand -pounds, and it was given to the town by a lady in memory of her hus« band, During the feavfu'ly cold weather in the second week in Desember, six cases of n^r^ons be : ng fr> z->n *o df'a'.h occurred ij! !''u.;!>Md i>!j:l ScHltmi. There was silsn crp:<t tnir'aiify iimn'i^ (h<? a^-c^. In one day'; .">lvtun v y in Hip London Time.*, i he npine* of twenty ;mm-sous appeared who had reach"d seventy years aud up* rca-iK The Eer. F.i'her La^v has heen coo* s>'ci'iited by Canl'nal Minninsc, as the flrif ifrmanCatl'o'ic Bishop of Mindless boroiiijlt. The church was filled on the oecM«ir<n to oire; flowing hr pep«ong of all denomu. aiions. The new Biihop is only th'rtv«ei^ht years of ajji\ Duing last y^nr no less than thirty fishinrj vessf's, belonging to QK ncester, M"as»tacht\seUs. wore lost, anil two hundred find forty fishermen drowned, The latter left eighry>eig!it wUows, and two hundred and ninetpon fatherless children. At jVr.iyence on December 21 h, the ice was so thick th:«S bhicbsmiths and other tradesmen carried on business on it. In the Cabinet dv Eoi of Paris is tiie oldest Hobrew coin. It is copper, aud bears a sacred inscription of a severs branch palm tree, and letters forming the name of the hish pric-f 'Elisliib.' It is reported from Pi'fslmrg, America, tlmt a man nam^d Samuel WcoJbine, Las dcsi-rtcJ Lis wife because she gave birth to (wins. I he Jafe Count Grimkcrghe has lef^fche Cily of Brussels half a million francs to found a seaside establishment, for the benefit of the sick children of the poor of that cily. .