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Wall Letter Boxes.-.At the School, cleared at 5 p.m.; A. C. Nott, Miss M. Lane & Miss C. Harris, assistant near United Methodist Free Church at 4·45 p.m. week rnistresses days only This school is under the control of the St . .Austell & Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1874, on St. Columb District Education Committl')e; G. P. a site near the church, & has since been enlarged, Bunt, St. Austell, clerk for 230 children; average attendance, 170; William Railway Station, Burngullow, Michael Han·is, statirm Henry Treloar, master; Miss Henrietta Isaac, ~iss n1aster

Bassett William Francis Cuombe Alfr.ed, blacksmith, Sticker Parnell Edward, farmer, Goonamarth Julyan Job, Marlborough house Derry James, carpenter, Pearse Thomas, farmer, Peneskar Stephens Thomas, Hembal Gill William, shoe maker, Sticker Phillip.s1 Bros.coopers &frmrs.Trewoon Thomas Rev. Frederick, Rectoiy Harris Michael, statiou master, Burn- Phillips Jabez, carpenter, Trewoon COMMERCIAL. gullow Pochin H. D. & Uo. clay merchants, Allen Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Trelowtb Hingstan James, hawker, Sticker H~gher Halviggan Barbery Thomas,stone mas-on,Sticker Hockin Henry, carrier, Trewoon Richards Charles, farmer, Trevanion Bairbery Wm. Huntley,mason, Sticker Honey John, farmer, Tregarden Rowe Thomas, farmer, Burngullow Best Frederick, shopkeeper, & post Jenkin Peter, Great Hewas inn, & Stephens Caroline (Mrs.),fmu.Hembal office, Trewoon farmer, Sticker Stone John, mason, Sticker Best John Mar shall, assistant over- Jobns William (Mrs.), shopkpr.Sticker Tabb William, greengrocer, seer, rate collector & clerk to the Jones Thomas, farmer, Namphysick ! Treloar William Henry, schoolmaster Parish Council Kendall William, grocer & post office, & insurance agent Best Samuel, farmer, Tregandallan Sticker Tremayne William, fa.rmer, Ninnies Blight Ambrose Julyan, farmer & road Langford Bro;;. blacksmiths, Trewoon Trethewy Fdk.frmr.&ca.rrier, Treluwer surveyor, Trelower Lawry John, cowkeeper, Polgooth Truscott Alfred, fa;rmer, Pothole Blight Simeon Albert, farmer Leech George, farmer, Bositlow Varcoe Ricllard, farmer, Polyear Brewer Tom, farmer & c·arrier, Goon- May Edward Body, farmer, Polgooth Vian Ephraim B. shopkpr. Polgooth amarth May Edward, wheelwr_ight, Polgooth Vian William, farmer, Trelower Buckthoug-ht John, grocer, Trewoon Nicholls Naroissa. (Mrs.), farmer & Vian William, farmer, Chapel green Oayzer William, farmer, Metheroes ca~rrier, Ca.rne Warren James Hy. farmer, Peneskar Clmroh Ed. frrnr. Trewithen Lane end Nott Ellen (Miss), farmer, Coyte Warrick Joseph, farmer, Trewoon Cleaves Wm. frmr.& carrier,Trelower Nott Elizabeth Jane (:Mrs.), farmer, Williams John, tin mines, Ooad John, carpenter, Sticker Trelowth Yelland Edna (Mrs.), farmer, Trewoon Ooad Joseph Henry, shoe ma.Trewoon, Olver Richard, butcher, Trewoon Vean

ST. MICHAEL CAERHAYES is a parish on the held since rgor by the Rev. Ernest Bellamy B . .A. of river Luney near the shore of bay, 8 miles south­ Trinity College, Dublin. The rectory house, built in east from Grampound Road station on the Great Wes­ 1804 by the Rev. Charles Trevanion Kempe, then rec­ tern railway and ro south-south-west from St. Austell, tor. is pleasantly situated below, and at a short in the Mid division of the county, west division of the distance from the chul'ch. A reading room was erected hundred of Powder, petty sessional division of Powder by Mrs. Williams, of Caerhayes Castle, in 1893. Caer­ South, St. Austell union and county court district, rural hayes Castle, the property and residence of John Charles deanery of St. Austell, archdeaconry of Cornwall and Williams esq. lord of the manor and chief landowner, diocese of . The church of St. Michael, standing was erected shortly after the demolition of the ancient alone on the top of a hill, is a building of stone with manswn in r8o8; it is a noble structure, with lofty granite facings, consisting of chancel, nave, north tran­ round towers and turrets, and is battlemented through­ sept, south aisle of two bays, south porch and an em­ out ; the wall of the entrance hall bears the arms of battled western tower containing 6 bells, all with in­ Hen. VHI. ; the principal entrance to the grounds is scriptions in Old English letters, the two last being through a turreted gateway, with a lodge of correspond· invocations to .St. Thomas and St. Barbara: al1 the ing design, and the whole character of the building windows are stained, and there is a reredos of mosaic harmonises with the picturesque wildnes'S of the sur­ work and a parclose of carved oak, both executed by rounding scenery ; here is preserved a collection gf the Rev. William Willimott M.A. rector 1852-78: at the minerals, formerly at Scorrier House, which geologists end of the aisle is a statue, life size, of a British naval and persons of taste are kindly allowed to inspect. The officer, wielding an actual sword, and said to represent park is about roo acres in extent. The soil is loam; one of the Bettesford-Trevanion family: in the arcade a subsoil, slate. '!'be area is 857 acres of land, 4 of water number of helmets are suspended, and here hangs also and 37 of foreshore; rateable value, £r,I83; the popu­ the sword said to have been worn by Sir Hugh Tre- lation in 1901 was 137. • vanion at Bosworth Field, 21 Aug. 1485: in the transept Letters through Gorran S.O. arrive at 9.25 a.m. is a sepulchral arch, and here also remain the r·ood loft Gorran is the nearest money order & telegraph office, stairs: the south porch has a stoup and aumbry and on 3 miles distant the north side is a pre-Norman doorway in a good state of preservation: a memorial to Mr. Zacharie Hooker, Wall Letter Box cleared at II a.m rector, 1643, is now covered over by the t:•sselated Public Elementary Schools. flooring, and some others of later date: the church was partially restored in 1864 by the late John ~fichael The school is controlled bv• the St. Austell & St. Williams esq. (d. r88o) ; there are 8o sittings. The Columb District Education Committee; G. P. Bunt, register of baptisms and marriages dates from the year St. Austell, clerk 1594 ; burials, r58o. The living is a reetory, net yearly Mixed, built by J. C. Williams esq. of Caerhayes Castle, value £r2o, including 30 acres of glebe, with hous~, in in r8g5, for 82 children ; average attendance, 26; the gift of John Bevill Fortescue esq. of Boconnoc, and Joseph Treneer, master; Miss Julia Yelland, mistre&"s

Bellamy Rev. Ernest B.A. rector, J Johns Thos. shopkpr.East Portholland Sargent Henry, head gamekeeper, Rectory Kerkin William, farmer, Polgrain Caerhayes castle Williams John Chas. Caerhayes castle Martin Edward, gardener to J. C. Treneer J oseph, schoolmaster Dustow Charles, farm bailiff to J. C. 1 Williams esq . Yelland John Thomas, miller (water), Williams esq ! Reading Room (Joseph Treneer, hon. Tubb's mill Holman James, farmer & overseer,! sec) Treberrick I ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, formerly extra-parochial, to be geologically the most interesting spot in Cornwall: is now a parish, in the Western division of the county, the rock is in the form of a pyramid and extremely Penwith hundred, petty sessional division of Penwith steep and craggy; its circumference at the base is about West, : union and county court district; it is one mile, and it diminishes gradually upwards to the­ 3 miles east from Penzance and I south-east from Mara­ height of 250 feet above the level of the sea. The Mount zion Road station on the Great Western railway. St. was purchased from the Basset family by John St. Aubyn Michael's Mount is connected with by a natural in 1657, and is now the property of Lord St. Levan. On causeway of rocks and pebbles about 40 yards wide and the summit of the mount is the castle, and a beautiful soo yards in length from the shore at Marazion, formed chapel of the rsth century. The armoury, or guard­ by the tidal currents mePting in opposite directions, and room, i;~ small, but well supplied and decorated with passable for about four hours during low water. The ancient armour; to the right is the breakfast-room, a northern part of the island is on the slate; the junction fine olrl-fashionPd interior. Furthe-r on is the apartment, of the granite and slate, to be seen at low water, is said formerly the refectory, now the dining or Cbevy Chase