AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Eighth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874. PRICE 1D. =========================================== LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS. SALE OF THE OLD WESLEYAN CHAPEL, PENRITH. - On Thursday last, the building known as the Wesleyan Chapel, together with the vestries and a cottage house, were offered to public competition at the George Assembly Room, Penrith. Offers were made for the chapel and vestries as Lot 1, and for the cottage and yard as Lot 2; and also for the whole in one lot. In the latter form, £1,000 was offered by MR. RICHARD HARRISON, of Newbiggin; and for the two lots above named, £250 was bid for the cottage by MR. JACKSON, plumber, and £760 for the chapel and vestries by MR. THOS. HODGSON, auctioneer, making a total of £1,010. MR. HARRISON then offered £1,050 for the whole, and no further offer being made, the trustees consulted in private with MR. FAIRER, their solicitor, for a short time, and on their return, the upset price was announced as £1,250. No advance being made on this sum, the property was withdrawn, but we understand that MR. HARRISON afterwards became the purchaser at £1,200. MR. JOHN JACKSON was the auctioneer. ___________________________________________________________ DACRE : THE HASELL MEMORIAL. - At Carlisle Consistory Court, on Tuesday last, MR. SAUL applied for a faculty to enable the incumbent and churchwardens of Dacre to make certain important alterations and reparations in the parish church of Dacre. These involved the taking down of the gallery at the west end of the church, the removal of the pulpit and reading desk, font, communion table, and sittings; the taking down of the ceiling, taking the plaster off the walls, taking down the chancel arch, inserting a new arch of greater height; the opening out of the Norman arch of the tower; the reslating of the roof; the rebuilding of the battlements of the tower; the taking down of the east gable and rebuilding the same with a new east window; the reseating of the church; the rebuilding of the walls of the tower and battlements, and inserting a new window; taking the rough cast off the outside walls and repointing them; and to do other things specified. The total cost of the alterations will be £2,000. Of that sum £1,500 will be provided from the Hasell memorial fund, and the work was divided into sections to suit that arrangement. The Chancellor urged the importance of having the whole of work done at once, and adjourned the case till next court, in order that the vicar might appear, and that the committee of parishioners might arrange for the execution of the whole work, and to give a guarantee for the total estimated cost.