Methodist. Mission will be sorry to Hearn that on Thorsday morning, Inst. through causes unknown the greater part of the Mission Settlement Church of this Port collapsed, eaving the building an entire ruin, Speenlation has been rife as to what hax led to the disaster, when ther it wax the weakening of the foundations due to the incessant rainy weather or to the shock of the air vibrations from. the firing: of x by HAMS, Bluebell, or both, The fact remains, however, that the walls and roof of fully third part of the front of the buitd~ ing have given way. This is a loss the Mission of several thousand dollars. Fortunately nobody was hurt by falling debris, no one being either in or near the buildinge when the accident. took place—triily ase tonishing, as the church "tandy in tone of the busiest corners of Nine
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