CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 234, 8 October 1870, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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" THE TRUTHSEEKER3 " AND "THE EUREKiS." To the Editor of the Evening Stab.

Sib, —The appearance of a note from Mr, J. 0. Wilkes, appended to a paragraph in today's Cross, will puzzle many who do not know the motive, that prompts the writer. Itis not generally known that a sect called "The Eurekas " meet every Sunday forenoon and evening in the reading-room of the Newton Athenaeum, and of course Mr. J. C. Wilkes must be greatly annoyed that another body should meet in the Polytechnic G-allery. We are modestly termed " Truthseekers." They, "The Eurekas," have of course "found it," and hence the paragraph.

Newton is not rich in institutions, and it needs a public hall and reading-room in a central situation. At present Ihe Athenaeum poorly supplies the wants of the district, but it is all they have. Broad are the roads and well scoried (how the trustees m ust have been soft sawdered to get them in their present condition !) that lead to this suburban headcentre of moral, spiritual, and intellectual improvement. Here, sir, on a Saturday you may get " The Soiled Dove" from the circulating library, and, having satiated yourself "yourself with that, you can drop in among the '•'Eurekas" on' Sunday forenoon, and have your religious aspirations gratified ; and on .Menday evening you may come to the reading room, where you may occasionally hear the Provincial Secretary holding forth on some important political question. This is 'not, perhaps, a great deal after, all, but it is betier than the state of stagnation into which many suburbs allow themselves to drop ; but then, indeed, every suburb is not blessed with a public-spirited person like Mr. J^ 0. Wilkes. —I am, &c, TItTJTS-SEEKEB. October 8, 1870.