The letters patent creating Mel~ bourne a separate diocese and appointing Bishop Perry first Bishop. of Melbourne in the year 1847 were shown to the members of the Anglican Synod the other day. Their case possessed a series of parchment rolls to which were attached a privy seal. This was a wax tablet showing raised impression of Queen Victoria sated on her throne. The manner in which the letters patent came into the hands of Mr. J. B. Merrett, a well-known business. man of Mele bourne, is interesting, Mr. Merrett on. a visit to England discovered the documents in the basement of a Lon~ don bookseller, He bought them and has made a gift of them to the Synod. Archbishop Head thanked Mr. Morrett on behalf of Synod. It is presumed that Bishop Perry, who came to Australia in the Stag in the year 1847 but, returned to England in 1876, must have taken the letters patent back with him. Upon his death Tittle interest in these his torical documents seems to have been taken, It is remarkable that no search has been made for these valuable papers before. How they amic to be ina London bookseller's shoj" is a complete mystery. The decumests have now been placed in the archives of the cathedral of the Anglican Avehbishoprie of Mel bourne, St. Pauls. is Name was William Too When parents supply boys with. Firearms something is likely to be-Il. When William Lloyd, who resides al Dubbe in New South Wales, caiae into possession of a pen rifle evidently presumed that he was the expert shot in the district, He prevailed upon another boy Aubrey Green to allow him to emulate the feat of William Tell although a hat was substituted for the apple and a rifle for the bow and arrows. Aubrey Green was quite willing and after collecting few comrades to watch' the performance Green calmly stood measured distance off, allowed Wil-jam Lloyd to draw a bead upon the hat, which rested upon his (Green's) head, and pull the trigger. The result fs Green lies in the Dubbe has. pital at death's door. The bullet had ploughed a furrow three, inches Tong in the top of his bead. Whether he had pulled too far down upon his head or William Lloyd was not the expert shot that he thought
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