A public meeting to consider the bearings of the Abolition Bill now before the General Assembly will be held at the Masonic Hall, Hutt, on Saturday. Mr. Fitzherbert will be present as member for the Hutt district, and Sir George Grey will also address the meeting, having been requested to do so in a requisition published in another column of the present issue, and signed by a large number af Hutt electors. Mr. Mason will preside, and the meeting is likely to be of more than usual interest.
The Theatre Royal wes very well attended last evening. The performances, which were under the patronage of his Excellency the Governor and the Marchioness of Normanby, consisting of "The Love Chase" and "The Happy Pair," each of them being enacted in a manner which elicited frequent applause. At the meeting of the "Wellington Land Association held in Barrett's Hotel on Wednesday evening, several important resolutions touching the management of the association were passed. Among the rest is one which reads as follows :—Resolved, that the trustees be called upon to render account of all moneys received and paid by them on behalf of the shareholders, and that the trustees do produce documents and vouchers in their possession, or under their control, being the property of the association.
A lecture will be delivered by Sir J. L. C. Richardson in St. John's schoolroom, 'Willisstreet, entitled " Notes on China." A number of illustrations of the habits of the Celestials have been specially prepared for the lecture. Sir John Richardson's ability as a lecturer is so well known that there is sure to be a good attendance. The above is the first of a series of lectures which will be delivered from time to time by different gentlemen, the proceeds of which will be in aid of the building fund of St. John's Presbyterian Church. The Ven. Archdeacon Stock mil deliver the second lecture.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4498, 20 August 1875, Page 2
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