Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-06-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NOTES AND QUERIES, BY O. L. A. F.  I OBSERVE : —That the annual united service in connection with the Denton and Haughton Sunday School Union was held on Sunday at Christ Church. This has led to a train of reflections in which wonderment holds the supreme place. Have the views of the rector of Christ Church undergone some marvellous " transmogrification.s." Has he bowed to the wishes of some more advanced amongst his flock? Or lastly, has Nonconformity ceased to be " pisen " ? It is difficult to see that the latter can be the case for they do not believe, any more than they did twelve months ago. that compliance with meaningless, and antiquated Church formularies are exactly the kind of thing to appease an avenging they, or that the Holy Ghost is inseparably connected with lawn sleeves and bishops' digits. If it were not rank heresy to do so I should incline to the opinion that the protests I have raised from time to time have borne fruit. However we have the sober fact, and I heartily congratulate the incumbent of Christ Church on having broken through the barriers of frivolous sectarian exclusiveness.  THE Rev. L Scott will, I hear, shortly resume his ministerial functions at Wilton-Street Chapel. It goes without saying that it will afford pleasure to all to see him again in his accustomed place..  THE officials connected with the Journeymen Felt Hatters' and Trimmers' and Wool Formers' Associations assembled at the Clubroom of the Jolly Hatters Inn on Tuesday evening, to spend a social evening by the invitation of the president of those associations, Mr. W. Rigby. In the speaking which followed the dinner, Mr. Rigby impressed upon his hearers the necessity of increased exertions towards union. With accustomed vigour Mr. Rigby set forth his views upon the necessity of a trade price list being completed, and invited the co-operation the employers. Diping the evening a presentation was made to Mr. R!gby. That he fully deserves such a mark of esteem there can be no doubt. His efforts on behalf of unionism are indefatigable and most valuable, in fact I believe;it would be impossible to find another such zealous and at the same time so disinterested worker in the cause.  I HAVE a question which I should like to , have answered by the "powers that be." I cannot claim that it is original, for in point I of fact it is simply an echo of what is being asked with more or less wonderment and vehemence all round, viz., "What about the Playground?" The query, I must confess, is rather peculiar from its laconic nature than from its purity of expression, but it simply amounts to this: The Board possess certain land which was bought ostensibly for the purpose of turning it into a recreation ground some three years ago. After taking the very reasonable time which elapsed since then, to sufficiently weigh the gigantic step they were about to take, they passed a resolution at the Board meeting held in March to the effect that the ground be fenced in and laid out, at a cost of £4OO. Now why are there no signs visible that this resolution is to be put into effect. It is true that the timber which enclosed the ground at one end has been r moved, and it was thought that that was the preparatory step to erecting the " unclimable palisading" which I believe already exists—on paper. For this and other purposes it was decided to sell certain chief rents. That has been done. The money has been realised. What prevents the resolution being carried out then I am not aware that It has been rescinded. Perhaps an explanation may be offered by some of those concerned.  THE escape of Jackson, or Firth, as his real name seems to be, after the murder of the warder of Strangeways Goal, and his long successful elusion of the police, created quite as much excitement in its way in Lancashire and Yorkshire as existed years ago when the