been unusually good. For the eleven months ending July 18, 1882, there have only been five burials of those belonging to the Parish. At the Government Inspection by the Rev. H. Sandford on Aug. 8 and 9, the Schools had 204 children on the Registers: 67 Boys, 63 Girls, 74 Infants; the average attendance for the year ending July 31st was 146.5. The Expenditure of the Schools has been £311 13s. 1d., the various Salaries of Teachers being £265 13s. 2d. The Income included £134 11s. 0d., the Grant for the previous year, £84 8s. 6d. Subscriptions, and £87 2s. 7d. School-pence. In the first year of all the Schools being under Inspection—1873—the Grant was £99 4s. The hay harvest of the Parish has been very abundant and generally well won: the corn promises very well and has been most of it carried in fine weather before the middle of September.
The Rainfall at Barnsley in 1881 (see page 65) is given by Dr. Sadler as 25.81 inches, with 181 days on which .01 inch or more fell; Dunford Reservoir, 53.81, 236 days; Holmbridge (Batley Waterworks) 61.50; Wakefield, 29.32, 189 days; Goole, 22.12, 164 days; Huddersfield, 33.15, 177 days; Manchester, Ardwick, 39.49, 187 days; Appleby (Lincs.) 26.86; Ambleside, 82.77, 205 days; Scafell Pike, 95.60; The Stye, 172.56. (British Rainfall, 1881: G. J. Symons, F.R.S.)
The following have been the preachers at the annual Harvest Thanksgiving Service: 1865, Rev. Dr. Gatty, Vicar of Ecclesfield; 1866, W. F. Wilberforce, Vicar of Roystone; 1867, W. C. Barwis, Curate of Hoyland-Swaine; 1868, A. D. Wilkins, Vicar of Dewsbury; 1869, Canon Hulbert, Vicar of Almondbury; 1870, J. Bandinel, Rector of Elmley; 1871, J. Sharp, Vicar of Horbury; 1872, C. Sangster, Vicar of Darton; 1873, T. R. W. Pearson, Vicar of Horsforth; 1874, E. W. Isaac, Vicar of Dewshury; 1875, in Tivydale School and on a Sunday, C. T. Pratt, Vicar of Cawthorne; 1876, in School, W. S. Turnbull, Vicar of Penistone; 1877, in Nave, J. E. Cross, Vicar of Appleby, Lincs.; 1878, H. Sandwith, Rector of Thorpe Salvin; 1879, J. Ingham Brooke, Rector of Thornhill; 1880, C. T. Pratt; 1881, C. L. M. Hinde, Vicar of Flockton.
Since the description of the Church was written (Chapter VII), the mural decoration has been begun and is still in progress under the
