PROFESSOR MACKENZIE AND THE BIBLE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 9

PROFESSOR MACKENZIE AND THE BIBLE.

■;. Sir,—Our. dearly beloved Christian friend, '.'Aristobulus/' •.might,, out-'of ■ purq Christian, charity; have allowed me to recover fronvtho Apostolic'knock and episcopal.drop-kick.-ad-' ministered to mo a. week or-two ago, .before. paying me such a beautifullE;ahd charactorij istically Christian,. tribute .'ins your ..columns to-day!.. .My respect ;for.jhe .intelligence of•• ; your .readers, makes' it' unnecessary, for ine to enter into cbntroversy^wit£him,-br : with-''your'; •correspondent, who ; sigried'.!iim6olf,''A'Scpt'V ; some '■■ days! ago. '■ It: is a 'privilege ■in theW. . ecclesiastically/uneventful/days to - earn' im-' mortality'with, the Jack Daw of Eheims.. : As A'Aristbbulus'.'.'ahdi"A. Scot,'.'and all of that : ilk, have, presumably, a monopoly of Christian resignation, I. suppose : I must bear .'my afflictions' (these.' Christian.. coiirtesies). with pagan equanimity.—Lam, etc.-, ;■ ,•-.:' ■'-■' y--\.. v : HtJGH ; : MACKENZIE.- 4 .Wellington, • • '■.' ■■.■'.••■•■'•'-' ■-'■.-.' '-..' ! ::. January , 18, 1909:. •-..;:".• ~' ; [With;, this 'letter, .wo--close'-.the-, correspondence, .of which it is,part.]:. V :s, ■ L - 'j';Vy ; •'•>■'.; : >A r 7V; ;R E A^T;;'::)}";;^^;,ffi: ■■ Sir,rrr see:'in, last mention of . an. old.- cannon; 'which is fir; Old Customhouse Quay,' • near ' Messrs. ••'' Bethune and Hunter's, old.' store.-: The remembrance, of that old gun takes mo back to'the olden days of the settlement."-I.saw it .fired off.at, all the starting" of the boat races for several years.. -In those days there were, a 'great many.war canoes, about .Wellington, when' there would be about 40' 0f..'50 -Natives' -.in each canoe, and wo always had a'special race for the canoes. AVe also had races, for boats of from 1 ton up to 30 tons. 1 These boat races were sailing matches; we'also had a special race for .whalebojits.' : At that, time there wero several whaling stations .pa, the coast of the North and the Soutblslauds; there was pno at Waikaha'e,. several oh Cook Strait on the Middle Island._ and all those whalers, would come .into Wellington for Anniversary Day. . Wo also had a visit very, frequently: of English, French, and American .whaling ships; they generally came into Port Nicholson, the name' of the Wellington Harbour in those days, for the Anniversary; wo alivays had a special race for the .boats helonging to those whaling ships. I do-not think-if would bo a bad idea to have, the old gun removed (by special permission), from its present position to the Museum, as it is certainly a relic of olden times. -■■ It .would give the people of .the present time some idea of tho guns that were used about 60 years ago.- 2 !,am, etc.', ..-.'.•: ' . AN OLD IDENTITY. . January 18.. .