Another Pic-nic was held at the "New-Old-Roar" on Monday the 3rd of April, this time by members of the Norman-road Temperance Society, who there enjoyed the rural felicity of an open-air tea-meeting. They called it a Gipsy Party, but who was the Gipsy Queen was not stated. The tale was told, however, how Mrs. Tree and other ladies exerted themselves to make the party happily comfortable with the "cup that cheers but not inebriates".
Over Three Hundred pic-nic'd on the same day at Ore Valley, the party consisting of persons from both towns, and amused by the "Virginian Brothers", a band of darkies made up by inhabitants of both towns. Tea was partaken of, after which dancing and other amusements were engaged in until the shades of night bade the "gipsies" to return to their homes.
Royal Visitors
Queen Amelia, the ex-Queen of the French, and suite arrived by special train of the South-Eastern Railway on Wednesday, April 8th, and took up their abode at the Victoria hotel. The royal party consisted, in addition to the ex-queen, of the Duc de Chartres, the Count de Paris, the Prince and Princess de Joinville, the Princess Francoise d'Orlenas, Gen. Count Dumas, Mademoiselle Mûsur, the Marquis Beauvoir, Gen Count Montesque, Dr. Mussy, L'Abbe le Gulle, Capt. Morhain and others.
Burgularies and Robberies.
Nearly £100 was extracted from a drawer in the counting-house of Messrs. Parks, of South Colonnade on the night of Sunday, July 19th. The window facing the sea had been left partly open for air, and as a short ladder was found placed thereagainst, it was supposed that was the ingress and egress of the robber.
Another Robbery appeared to have been attempted, two nights later, at one of the houses on the Marina, but the attempt was unsuccessful.
Special Sermons
The Seamen's Missions and London Hibernian Society were benefited - the former by £10 and the latter by about £9, on Sunday, Aug. 2nd, by sermons preached in St. Leonards church.
The Wesleyan Sunday Schools had their annual sermons preached in the Norman-road Chapel on Sunday, Nov. 1st by the Revs. H. Bleby and M. Salt. The collections amounted to a little over £8.
To the St. Leonards Sunday School Fund was added 22l by means of sermons preached in the church of that parish on Sunday, Dec. 13th.
SchoolTreats
The Wesleyan Sunday-school children, to the number of nearly 250, assembled in the Shepherd-street room on Whit-Monday according to annual custom, -
