Notes and Comments.

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Notes and Comments.

On the forenoon of Sunday, March 31st, a census

church of church attend.ers attendees, in Dundee was taken

. by representatives of the “Dundee Courier." The population of the city is estimated at 170,000, and it has ninety churches, besides mission halls, the latter being left out of the reckoning. Altogether 33,470

persons attended the churches at the service in question, this representing 19.6 per cent, of the population. The adult females represented 45 per cent of the congregations, • the adult males 34 per cent, and children 21 per cent. The proportion of attendances to church sittings was 54 2 per cent. The amounts of all the collections were not ascertained, but so far as they were returned they worked out at £1 14s 3d per church, and per individual. Thecongregationalistscontributed 8d per head, the United Free Church per head, and the Established Church per head. The figures shows (says the Edinburgh correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) how largely the churches have lost their hold of the working classes, when in a city like Dundee less than 20 per cent of the population are found in church at one time.

At Friday’s meeting of the Oamarn Borough Council a OAMARU’S letter was read from

DISAP- Mr F. W. Wain, POINTMENT. secretary of the Hakataramea Valley School Committee, asking if any arrangements were being made to send school children to Oamarn on the occasion of the Duke and Duchess of York passing through (says the Mail).

This was read in conjunction with the Premier’s telegram that the Duke and Duchess of York would not stop at Oamaru. Mr Milligan objected to the settled policy of ignoring Oamaru which the Government followed. Mr Brown also thought Oamaru ought not to submit to be ignored in the way in which the telegram indicated. The same had been the case on the visit of the Imperial troops, the arrival of the contingents, and on other occasions. He moved that the Mayor telegraph to the Premier, asking whether it was true that they proposed to lock the gates of the station when the train passed through, and whether the representatives of the public bodies would be allowed on the station to welcome the Royal party. It was pointed out that His Excellency the Governor was responsible for the programme and nol the Premier. The motion was seconded and agreed to.