PETERSFIELD, October 11.
NATIONAL SCHOOLS. — Three sermons were preached in the church on Sunday in behalf of these institutions; that in the morning by the Rev. G. H. Sumner, Rector of Old Alresford, in the afternoon by the Rev. H. Haigh, and in the evening by the Rev. H. Smelt. Handsome collections resulted from the appeals of the rev. gentlemen.
Hampshire Chronicle — Saturday 11 October 1862
PETERSFIELD.—Three eloquent sermons were preached on Sunday last in the church, on behalf of the excellent National Schools, in the morning by the Rev. G. H. Sumner, rector of Old Alresford; in the afternoon, by the Rev. H. Haigh; and in the evening, the Rev. H. Smelt. It is pleasant to say that handsome collections resulted from the appeals of the rev. gentlemen. These schools, like others of a similar character, will be very great sufferers in a pecuniary point of view from the ‟Revised Code,” so that additional subscribers and larger subscriptions will be necessary to maintain the schools in anything like their present state of efficiency.