ARATAPU MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT CLASS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 153, 8 July 1892, Page 2

ARATAPU MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT CLASS.

The ordinary meeting of the above Society was held on Wednesday, there being a,moderate attendance. The business of the evening was the consideration of • Eminent men,’ and the first character was brought forward by a short essay on Thomas Beeket. The essayist treated her subject as fully as was desirable in such an time char. e'er, and gave an insisrht into th» dlfferenr, nortim.s of bis life. m/'I '}• , the £ ort . inufKpruiJUij ciation s aT - ngskiiSP use of i-ii . ■ -- • .. ..a V* £>Vei the ground of the essay. The next character introduced Sir Geo. Grey 7, a.his was done by Mr T. Webb in a very good speech in which he referred to the eminent services rendered by Sir George Grey as an explorer in Australia, a Governor iia New Zealand and at the Cape, as a politiean, the framer nf this mill?try’s constitution, as a to-y.er *£ literature aud hit and as an orator, Mr Scott opene 1 the Criticism and spoke of the kero’s unbiassed low for man, poor and rich Mil-e and of his munifi&ept chanty towards the i v.-o.f of Auckland. Mrtf&t&Llworthy also sau;7; ..-j ; .o,d the Class uuanimoiusly voted Mj... ( v as worthy to be Classed amu. ;uv eminent men. A young jgiiember then escjJitqs&tSf- » desire to know

something of General J Booth. Mr Webb, though not prepared to class Mr Booth amongst eminent men, considered him a remarkable one. Though he would probably be one of tlie last to join the Salvationists he never laughed at them as he knew they ha.d done a great deal of good. He would like lo give Mr Booth a chance of establishing his oversea scheme in order to see how lie would succeed. Mr Scott, in his criticism, was somewhat severe on the General and did not speak favourably 7 of bis work. The young members of the Class were again very 7 backward and far too silent.