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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5

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« Gold is our refuge and our strength » was one of the items enumerated by a Capetown paper in reporting certain musical services in a local church.—It is not generally known that the Church of England interests itself in the extinct fauna of New Zealand. An East Coast paper writes of « a customary form of penance in the good old days, but now extinct as the moa, of which the Established Church still declares every Ash Wednesday that its restoration 'is much to be desired. » —A Wairarapa paper states that a defaulting rate-collector « was greatly suspected in the district, and much sympathy is felt for his wife and children. » —The Marlborough comps have been making delightful reading of some American clippings. Describing the closing of Congress, one paper, after stating that the Senate clock had been put back « ten minuets, » goes on to say, « There was a wild hurrah as the Speaker's gravel fell on the expiring Congress, coming from the floor and galleries. » Its local contemporary, quoting an account of a disturbance at Chattanooga, says: « A number of persons have lost their lives. An old man named George Pell, the leading man of the district, lost his life on March 18, and three weeks after he married a girl named Mary Williams. » (Beat that, Wairarapa, if you can!)— « When (says Auguste Villemot) I wrote in l'Independance Belge, the comps, if I spoke of the répertoire classique of the French comedy, never failed to print the répertoire èlastique. One day I went to Brussels especially to touch the compositors' hearts; they promised me that no error should again occur. The following week I spoke of a man with an è lastique conscience: they printed it classique conscience. » —A Ballarat paper states that a certain m.l.a. « leaves Melbourne by train to-day for London. » His object, according to the same paragraph, is to explain to English investors what can be done by judicious expenditure on « intense culture » in the territories of the Irrigation Trust.—The Chairman of a school committee in Hawke's Bay wrote to the Board that a concrete « chemmily » to the school was badly needed. This, like carache in Mr Besant's book, looks « almost French. »