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Divine service will bo conducted by the Eev. J. C. Eccles, at St. Peter's Church, Waipawa, on Grood Friday, at the usual hour; on Sunday first, the 13th April, at 7 p.m. ; the school-room, Kaikora, at 3 p.m. We observe from the Christchurch Press that the race horses Bribery, Lady Ellen, Pinfire, Lara, and Sinking Fund arrived by the s.s. Southern Cross on the 3rd instant from Napier. With the ex ception of Bribery, whose off fore ankle joint is still badly swollen from the effect of the sprain that lately happened to her, all the animals were apparently in good condition. If the Rev. Father Henneberry is not a "fire-brand," he is certainly fond of using- remarkably forcible language. At .Tnvercargill, on Sunday (according to the Southland Times) Father Hennebery "referred to the confession, and its special relation to missions, and in the course of relating an anecdote said that it had been mentioned that a priest had been going about the colonies disclosing the confession. This he did not believe, for if he did describe it God would strike him dead. He then alluded to the power of these missions, stating his conviction that if Judas Iscariot had attended one he would have been converted. And what would be the effect if they did not attend ? Why, when in America, he had asked a man to attend one ; the man pleaded as an excuse that he had to sow a crop of oats, and throughout his mis sion he did not make his appearance. His neighbors did. And what was the result? Simply this, that his neighbors' crops were good, and only weeds resulted from the labors of the man who had refused to attend the mis sion. In another case, a rich American lady was asked to attend, messages were sent, but she refused. Before the mission was over that woman was struck dead, and one of her children died with out baptism. He (the speaker) was now expecting to hear of the fate of her husband, who also had refused to attend the service. But why need he go to America for such instances? Here in New Zealand they had examples of a similar character. During his mission in Blenheim a wretched Catholic refused to attend, and before the services were over he was a corpse. 