March 14-Frederick Charles, son of Frederick and Mary Ann Brown.

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BURIAL.

Feb. 26-Matilda Hurcombe, aged 73 years.

BURIAL OWLPEN.

Mar. 1-Deborah Summers, aged 80 years.

NY Ladies requiring Young Girls for Domestic Service, are requested to apply to Miss Browne,

Stout's Hill,
Uley, Dursley.

WHITMORE. STEAM PRINTER, STAMP OFFICE, LONG STREET, DURSLEY.

BERKELEY.

The services of Holy Week were well attended, and the daily communion drew together an average of eight or ten communicants each morning at seven o'clock. The afternoon service on Good Friday was much better attended than usual; and, notwithstanding the large number of excursionists who desecrated the commemoration of our Lord's death's day, there was not so much unseemly merrymaking as we have known in former years. We confidently hope, that there is a wide spread feeling amongst all classes against the impropriety of turning Good Friday into a day of amusement. Our Parish Church was open all day for private prayer. On Easter Day the first celebration was attended by about 53 Communicants, and there were 43 at the later celebration at 11. This is a considerable increase on last year. The Offertory amounted to £6. 17s. 9d. In the Evening the Choir sang the service throughout with much precision, and the anthem was very creditably performed. They also sang two or three Easter carols after the service. It is impossible to speak too highly of the decorations, which were much better than we have ever seen them before. A beautiful cross, presented by Lady Fitzhardinge, stood in the centre of the temporary Reredos, and the retable and steps to the Altar were decorated with texts, which were very effective. A text over the screen was beautifully worked in red and gold, and the screen itself was one mass of moss and flowers. The Pulpit and Font were also beautifully decorated with flowers.

The Services at St. John's, Purton, are now at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sundays, and at the Iron Room, Sharpness, at 3 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. If the congregation at Purton approves, we propose to alter the hour of the Evening Service to 6.30 p.m.

The Rev. Thos Mc Nulty came into residence in Berkeley during Holy Week. He will in future generally take the Services at St. John's, Purton, in the Morning, and at Sharpness in the Afternoon and Evening.

The Canal Company has very kindly undertaken to put a small Chancel to the Iron Room, Sharpness. Mr. Petifer and Mr. Clothier have made a subscription for a Harmonium for the Room. They met with a ready response to their appeal, and we hope that the new Harmonium will be ready by the first week in May.

The Holy Communion was celebrated in the School-Chapel, Wick, at 8 30 a.m., on Maunday Thursday, when there were 12 Communicants.

The service at 7 30 p.m. on Thursday evenings at Sharpness will be continued till further notice.

At the recent examination in Science and Art in the Fitzhardinge Schools, William C. Ayliffe gained a prize, 9 boys showed proficiency, and 29 others gave satisfactory evidence of having been taught drawing.

Mrs. Wenden, Dursley, has very kindly sent a quantity of linen for the Cottage Hospital.

CHURCH REGISTER.

BAPTISMS.

April 7-Rosa Kate, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Ann Brooks,

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Purton.

-Richard Percy, son of William and Elizabeth Smith,
Berkeley.

,,-Louisa Ann, daughter of William and Ruth Young,
Blackhall.

10-Charles son of Sidney and Elizabeth Wood, Berkeley.
14-Emily, daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann Nelmes,
Newport.

,,-Joseph William John, son of John and Jane Driver,
Berkeley.

16-Joe Daniel, son of Joseph and Mary Mayo, Wick.

MARRIAGE.

April 20-Henry William Walkley, Halmore, to Emma Gainer, Ham.

BURIALS.

Mar. 29-Henry Wilks, Newport, aged 70 years.

April 8-Sarah Jane Clements, Newport, aged 18 months. 12-Thomas Groves, Berkeley, aged 39 years.

COALEY.

On the 2nd of April, amid sunshine and the good wishes of a large circle of friends and neighbours, Miss Florence Hawkins, of Elmcote, was married at our Parish Church, to Mr. William Powell Hill, of Gossington, in the parish of Slymbridge. Her marriage was viewed by the parish with peculiar interest, both for the respect in which her family is held, and also for her own many and longcontinued services in connection with our Parish Church. A very large concourse of people assembled in the church and churchyard to witness the ceremony; and the well-chosen mottoes and arches of evergreen which spanned the road in the neighbourhood of the church declared the general desire of the parish to show honour to one to whom honour was due. A further proof of this was, however, given by the desire expressed on all sides, especially among members of the congregation, to present her with a token of their esteem and gratitude. Subscriptions were readily offered, and a few days ago the Vicar was commissioned, in the name of the Parish, to present her with an elegantly-chased Gold Watch, engraved with her initials, which we hope will long remind her of the good will and gratitude of her Coaley friends.

Now that our band of Church-workers is reduced by the removal of Mrs. W. P. Hill from the Parish, we pray that others may be raised up to strengthen the hands of those already engaged in the Lord's work.