RECEIVED. £

The following is an abstract of the School Accounts :

SCHOOL ACCOUNT 1874-75.

Balance in hand, Jan.

The following are the latest additions to the Chancel Restoration

T. W. Cattell, Esq, King-Stanley

H. N. Middleton, Esq., through Miss Cloyton

C. W. Kingdom, Esq., Stroud, through Mrs. Collier
Colonel Gascoigne

Mrs. and Miss Frith

Photographs

99

Rev. E. Woodehouse, Taunton, through Mrs. James,

Staunton, The Leaze

£ s. d.

10 0

4055

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000066

10

12 6

2 6

2

2107060

21

6 0

1 0

0966000

£28 2 0

Mr. W. H. King, Stanley St. Leonard's

March 7-George Edwin, son of William Harry and Louisa Jane

Holland, Church Road.

BURIAL.

March 27-William Hiff, aged 88 years.

STINCHCOMBE.

The

The Friday Evening Lenten Services, begun in February, have been continued during the three first Fridays in March. Sermons were preached (as it was announced in the last Magazine they would be), by the Rev. A. K. Cornwall, Rector of Newington Bagpath and Kingscote, the Rev. Canon Madan, and the Rev. H. R. Hayward, Rector of Lydiard Millicent, and one of the Proctors for the Clergy of this Diocese. The subject of the first was "Faith That of the second was "Our Lord's

and Confession of Sin to God."

The third was on "the Angels who kept
The last-mentioned Sermon was a very
The attendance at these Services

Healing of the Leper."
not their first estate."
beautiful and striking one.
continued tolerably good.

During Holy Week there has been an Evening Service on the week-days at 7.30, except on Good Friday, when the Services were as on Sundays. At the week-day Evening Services there were Sermons about our Lord's last words on the Cross. The Morning Services were at 8 and 11.

Several tons of Coal have been distributed to various houses in the Parish during March at a cheap rate, owing to the liberal subscriptions of a few persons who have kindly contributed to this charitable object.

As Spring is now advancing, and the garden rather than the fireside is necessarily becoming the resort of the labourer after his day's work, garden seed rather than coal becomes an acceptable boon. Therefore, as the Coal Fund is not yet exhausted, it is proposed to spend a part of it on seed potatoes.

The Church and Choir account, which appeared two months ago in the Magazine, showed a deficit of a few pounds owing to the Treasurer. It is hoped to lessen this in some degree by an Offertory applied to that purpose. It is thought well that the Offertory on Low Sunday, or 1st Sunday after Easter, be set apart for that object. The Treasurer has found a small error in the School Account which appeared in last month's Magazine, by which the balance in hand will be increased by about 8 shillings.

CHURCH REGISTER.

BAPTISM.

March 14-Edith Louisa Savage, daughter of William and Clara

Savage.

BURIAL.

March 17-Hester Backley, aged about 78 years.

ULEY cum OWLPEN.

The Missionary Meeting, of which our readers were informed last month, took place on the 25th. Mr. Bengough took the chair; the other speakers were the Rev. E. C. Oldfield, Major Browne, and the Rector. The calls for missionary labour and the special claims of India were ably stated by Mr. Bengough and Mr. Oldfield; the special interest of the evening was Major Browne's account of the building of the Church at Narowal, and of the self-denying labours of the Missionary stationed there. The audience were enabled to judge of the appearance of the Church from a clear sketch by Captain Orde Browne, R.A. The collection amounted to the very satisfactory sum of £12. 3s. 10d.

Our readers are reminded that the Coal Club re-opens the first Monday in April.

A vestry meeting was held at Owlpen on March 25th, at which the accounts for the Restoration of the Church were gone into, and it was found that upwards of £1000 had been spent on the Church and Churchyard, and that there was a deficit of more than £200, which Mr. Stoughton generously undertook to defray at his sole

expense.

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS ACT, 1874.

We have received the following from the Registrar for the Sub-District of this parish, who expresses a fear that the new Registration Act is but imperfectly understood:

BIRTHS.

When a birth takes place personal information must be given to the Registrar, and the Register signed in his presence by one of the following persons:

I. The Father or Mother of the Child.-If they fail

II.--The occupier of the house in which the birth took place.

III.-A person present at the birth (or

IV.-The person having charge of the child.

The duty of attending to the Registration therefore rests firstly on the Parents. One of them must within 42 days give to the Registrar by word of mouth the information needed to enable him to register, and must sign the Register in his presence. If they fail without reasonable excuse to do this, they will become liable to a penalty of forty shillings.

If, at the end of 42 days, no one has given information and signed the Register, the Registrar may write to any one of the above-mentioned persons, requiring him or her to come to him for that purpose at a stated time and place Any person who fails to comply with this requisition will become liable to a penalty of forty shillings.

Not only will liability to a penalty be avoided, but the Registration of a birth will be free of charge when it takes place within 42 days, unless either of the above-named persons send to the Registrar a written request to come and register at his or her residence, or at the house where the child was born, when the Registrar so attending to register may claim a fee of one shilling. After three months a birth cannot be registered except in the presence of the Superintendent Registrar and on payment of fees to him and the Registrar.

After twelve months a birth can be registered only on the Registrar General's express authority and on payment of further fees.

DEATHS.

When a death takes place, personal information must be given to the Registrar, and the Register signed in his presence by one of the following persons:

I. The nearest Relatives of the deceased present at the death, or in attendance during the last illness.-If they fail

II. Some other Relatives of the deceased in the same (Registrar's) SubDistrict. In default of any Relatives

III. (a) A person present at the death; or (b) The Occupier of the house in which the death happened.—If all the above-named fail

IV.—(a) An Inmate of the house; or (b) the person causing the body to be buried.

Relatives present or in attendance are therefore firstly required to attend to the registration. One of them must, within 5 days of the death, give to the Registrar by word of mouth the information needed and must sign the Register.-A written notice will be useless without a legal Medical Certificate. If Relatives present or in attendance fail without reasonable cause to carry out these provisions they will become liable to a penalty of forty shillings.

Whenever the deceased has been attended by a Registered Medical Practitioner, a Certificate of the cause of death, signed by him, must be delivered to the Registrar under a penalty of forty shillings.

The registration of a death will be free of charge when it takes place within the above period, unless on request it is effected at an informant's house, or the house where the death happened, when a fee of one shilling will be payable to the Registrar.

After twelve months a death can be registered only on the Registrar General's express authority, and on payment of fees.

(Abridged from Notice issued by the Registrar General, General Register Office, Somerset House, London, 1st Jauuary, 1875.)

B. W. LEACH, Registrar.

Church Register deferred till next month.

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

BERKELEY.

We wish to correct an unfortunate typographical error which occurred in our last number. In the Report on the girls' school, for "shows no lack of rigour," read "shows no lack of vigour."

In the boys' school Charles Ford has received a prize from the Science and Art Department for geometry, and Charles Taylor has a prize for free hand drawing. Four other boys have shown proficiency in geometry, and five in drawing, and 20 have given satisfactory evidence of having been taught drawing. The Grant amounts to £3. 2s.

A new edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern has been brought out lately. It contains several Metrical Litanies and Hymns which are not in the former edition, and it is hoped ere long that it may be introduced in the services of the Parish Church. Copies at various prices can be obtained at Mr. Sinderby's.

At a Confirmation held in the Parish Church on the 31st March, the Bishop confirmed the following persons :

Of the above, 22 have since received First Communion, and two had been admitted to Communion previously.

Mrs. Long, of Stock House, has kindly undertaken the district of Ham.

An Amateur Concert for the benefit of the British Workman Fund was held in Berkeley on the 20th instant. It was a great success. The room was crowded to excess and every one was