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Full text: FEBRUARY - APRIL, 1857 33 Thursday, 12th,—My daughter Amelia, and two sons Henry, and Ar- nold, commenced their lessons at Singing School under tuition of Caleb R. Bill. Monday, 23rd,—This morning about 8 O'clock I proceeded in the packet "Sylvia" to Cross Island, for the purpose of selling at public Auction the wreck and Materials of the Schooner "Villette", which vessel ran ashore on that island about 14 days ago, and was thrown on the hands of the Under- writers and all concerned. March, 1857 Sunday, 29th,—This evening the Revd. J. H. Drumm44 preached in St. John's Church. Mr. Drumm formerly belonged to the Methodist Denomina- tion, and was a practising physician at Bridgewater in this County. His thoughts, however, became turned towards the Episcopal Church; for a length of time he has attended her services, and at length studied for the ministry. He was ordained at Halifax about three weeks ago, and will now be stationed at Sackville. April, 1857 Monday, 13th,—This being Easter Monday a large number of people from the Country assembled in town, when the usual sport of the day was re- sorted to, namely the "tipping of eggs". Friday, 21fth,—A public meeting was held by the inhabitants of Mahone Bay, in this County, on the 13th inst, for the purpose of settling the bounds of that Village, and giving it a name. Several names were proposed; the name of "Kinburn" was voted by a large majority and finally adopted. Therefore "Kinburn"45 will be the future name of this rising Village instead of Mahone Bay. Monday, April 27th,—A Bill, the purport of which is to rob the Church of England, in this town, of the plot of ground upon which it stands, was brought into the House of Assembly last winter and rejected by that body.48 This Session the farce is being enacted over again; a similar Bill and for the same purpose, has been introduced into the House of Assembly by our two Members, Geo. Geldert, and Henry Bailley. The prime mover in this diabolical affair is Henry Ernst a justice of the peace, a man who has never been known not in one single instance, to have done any thing for the public good, though born and bred in this town and being now over Sixty years of age; but has always been known as a vehement grumbler, Thor- oughly lazy, a hindrance to all public improvement, and in his manners as rough and uncivilised as though he has been born and bred in the interior of Africa, yet this same character, for no other purpose but to gratify his