SYDNEY ONCE A WEEK. EDITED BY C. H. BARLEE. AGENTS will oblige by forwarding returns immediately after receipt of accounts rendered from this office. Remittances, if by P.O. Order, to be made payable to C. H. Barlee, Sydney. We shall feel obliged to our Subscribers by an N.B.-Advertisements for "SYDNEY ONCE A TO BE, OR NOT TO BE ? WE are they will manifest not only some interest, but also a little principal. The favourable reception which this magazine has met with from the public of New South Wales is sufficient to show the want which existed of an entertaining and inexpensive family journal. Believing that by the expenditure to the doubt which seems to haunt Is "ONCE A WEEK " going of a moderate amount of additional capital the circulation may be increased to such an extent as to make the "ONCE A WEEK" a handsome property in a very short time, the proprietors have resolved to invite their supporters to take an interest in it to the extent of one half of the proprietary by purchasing 1000 shares at £1 each. The magazine being even now almost self-supporting, the proprietors feel confident that an additional £500 would be ample to render it thoroughly payable. They do not, therefore propose to call up more than 10s. per share, unless the shareholders should themselves decide to expend the balance in rendering the property more attractive. This step is not taken without due consideration. 1. It will give the public confidence in the stability of the concern. 2. It will engage the efforts of a large proprietary to promote its suc cess. them The shares will probably be ap-* plied for at once, without going beyond the list of subscribers. Early application is therefore necessary to prevent disappointment. Shares will be allotted in the order of application. TERMS-One shilling per share on application; one shilling and sixpence per share on allotment; the balance in calls of one shilling and sixpence per month. Messrs M. B. PELL and W. HILL have kindly consented to act as Trustees pro tem. Should any unforeseen circumstances prevent the formation of the company, all moneys will be returned without any deductions. 3. It will attract the attention of advertisers, who will in the formation of the company receive a reply FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Proprietors of "SYDNEY ONCE A WEEK," Gentlemen, 279 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY. Herewith please find receipt from Mercantile Bank, Sydney, (Southern Branch) for the sum of... shillings and pounds pence, paid to the credit of “Sydney Once-a-Week" Trust Fund, as deposit on shares in terms of Prospectus. TALES OF THE COLD MANIA. [BY OUR OWN MANIAC.] THE COMPASS AT FAULT. In a mining township at which I was living, where quartz-mining was the principal industry, I was member of a Church Committee. Church matters under the voluntary system somehow were not in a very flourishing condition in that place, and sometimes we were for months without a clergy man. There was also more or less difficulty in getting the money to pay the necessary stipend when we did succeed in getting a parson to undertake the duties of the district, and the Committee had to exert themselves to their utmost to obtain donations and subscriptions. In one of my rounds taken for this purpose I called upon a well-to-do blacksmith, and asked him to contribute a monthly or quarterly sum. I urged upon him very strongly the duty which devolved upon him as an old resident and a householder to do something to support the church to which he belonged, and having got him to express his satisfaction at learning from me that a clergyman whose services we had been trying to secure was on his way to the township, tried to apply his own motto, "Strike while the ion is hot," to the subject in hand. "Then I can't persuade you to give anything at all towards the Church." "No, I don't think I'll go into anything else just yet." And I left him feeling that it was no use to hammer at him any more than it was at one of his own anvils. On one occasion, when there had been no resident clergyman for some time, we had a visit from a reverend gentleman, a most estimable man and an excellent preacher. He merely came up to see the place, but he stayed over Sunday, and, as a matter of course, officiated in our church. Now, the Bev. Mr. was a high churchman, and was strict in his observance of the forms of worship which ministers holding his views affect. For instance, in repeating the creed, they turn their faces to the east, intone various portions of the service, and so on. The impressive way in which our visitor read the prayers of the church gave great satisfaction. We listened with pleasure to the clear and melodious tones of his voice as he led the chants, and an excellent sermon at the close confirmed the favourable opinion we had formed of him from the moment he entered the reading desk. Our prejudices were in no way shocked by the slight innovations upon the form of worship we had been accustomed to join in, and we did not feel in the smallest degree offended when he turned his back upon us to repeat the creed. At this part of the service he intended, no doubt, to turn his face eastward, and that he made a conscientious effort to do so there could be no question. Perhaps it was the fault of the architect who designed the chancel, or it may be that our new pastor mistook its position, for as a member of his flock I took particular notice of his movements, and I can safely affirm, from my knowledge of the bearing of the quartz reefs on either side of the church as seen from the open windows, that by the compass he was standing in a line exactly twenty degrees west of north. |