LECTURE.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 147, 27 March 1886, Page 3

LECTURE .

A very instructive lecture was delivered by the Rev. G. B. Munro, Presbyterian Minister of Ixemuera, Auckland, in the Public Hall, Te Aroha, on Tueslay evening Ust, in aiil of the Building Fund of the Public Library, subject : " David Livingstone : His Life and Labours in Central Africa." Mr F. Pavitt vice Presi lent of (lie Library, presided, and introluced the lectur.v in, a few well- chosen remarks. Mr M mm gave a most grap >ic description of Livingstone's travels, the great hards'"';ig ho endured, and the perils he pa-^rd through, the lecturer frequently refer .-in? to a large map 9ft by 7ft and pointing out thereo 1 the chief places of interest, etc. The lecture was divided into three parts, durin r the intervals between whicn > esd rnr Coopei a 1 1 Burgees sang 1 in their umi.i. uiusned style several soug9 an 1 were at the conclusion of en* h warmly and deservedly applauded. The lecturer gave a full i.ecount of Livingstone's travels from the time he landed at Cape Town in 1852, and of all the great dsicoveries made by him ro.n that tiuio until be arrived in England in 3 858, returning again n second time to Africa in 18tiO, in company with Mr (J.ui^ Liviugdtom 1 (his brother;, and Dr Kirk, who, after having aceomyanied Livingston- 3 in his tnreU some two or tluei' months, na-i <<• give up ;nnl return nome tniuugh lUm^i, cvused by the hnrds'iipo they un lerwrnt. : Nothing daunted nouvver, jiiMiiy^'ono pns.iyd on to disoovei 1 , if po^-^iUl^, t '. 10 ' 11 ue souiee of the Nile, in which undertaking he lost his lite. The rov. lee-