... Vestry Meeting.—A vestry meeting was held in Chesham Bois Church on Friday afternoon, Nov. LO, for the purpose of taking tbe decision of the ratepayers Of the parish as to whether or the moiety of the rents of the parish property hitherto allowed the overseers of the poor rate, shell ,«.> future be received by the correspondent of the School Managers for the support of the Infant School on the ...

... THE PARISH CHURCH.-ERECTION OF THE NEW TOWER. The Rev. Joseph Matthews, rector of Chesham Bois, may be mo3t heartily congratulated upon the attainment of object which has occupied his thoughts and occasioned him immense amount of correspondence and effort for some years past. few months since a service was held in Chesham Bois Church on the occasion of its re-opening, after restoration and ...

... School Accommodation. A meeting of parishioners to consider this subject, was held at the Mission Room, Chesham Moor, on Friday evening, Sept. 19, present: The Rev. Jos. Matthews, rector, Messrs. George Bates and W. Ford, churchwardens, Messrs. Harry Scott, W. Puddiphatt, Jonathan Batchelor, and about twenty other ratepayers.—Mr. Ford was unanimously voted to the chair, and read letters of ...

... 31st of December, 1880, furnished to the Central Office for the Registry of Friendly Societies. The number of returns received was 390, showing a total of 34,597 members. The amount actually advanced and paid by depositors or shareholders in 1880 was .£103,372 ; the total amount due to depositors and shareholders on December 31st, 1880, £334,654; the sums borrowers' hands that date, £319,871; ...

... Birds at School.—A pair of our summer visitors (martins) have taken up their abode in one of the class-rooms of Townsend-road Board School, which about GO boys assemble daily. The birds have built their mud residence in a ventilator in the centre of the ceiling, to and from which they pass through a window which is not usually closed during the summer months. The feathered occupants appear not ...