UNKNOWN (From our Correspondent)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 271, 5 February 1874, Page 2

UNKNOWN (From our Correspondent)

At 7 o'clock pm. on Thursday last, a lecture wa.> deliyored i»i the Wueloj in Chapel, in aid of tL<? Harmonium Fund. Tuj Rjv C. 11. Sciiukok«ubrti q occupied the chuir, mid alter a few romarki introduced tv« lecturer, Mr Bush, to the meeting. T.ie iiutjict ol tue lectuie, " fho Zctilandeid ( •ud their Iraditwi »," was treated in n moet able manner. I Mr Bus*)' » uoso roaoarcltf:} into th. 1 old Maori lore of former ' days, must Jmve beoipiery exti'niire, to enable him to place before hik audicnue no interesting un uddrtts, which wad listened toiroui iU commencement to.the close -with mnrkod attontioa. The lecturer divided hu subject into lour parttIst. Maori Tiudltion* rexpecUug origin of tbe world. 2nd. Legends, respecting the migration from Hawaiki. 3rd. Sketches of the Inter-tribtl ware during the last century, and 4th. iUhgioua Supcrslitiuuo and ceremented, in con* | elusion, Mr Bu«h drew tiio attention of his hearers to the strong analogy which exists between the ancient Maori trt d it 1011^ respecting the ctealion and the deluge of the world, nnd the huttory, of Holy Writ. .During the intervals the ot thu lecture some selectioua of uacreu iuusio >t ere well rendered by the choii, an baruiomum Jiavmg been kindly lent for thu occasion, it being impossible to oout o r ut anything oat of the old one, beyond grunts and squeaks. Vo'es of thanks were accorded — to Mr Bush, not only for his most interesting lecture, but for his exertions and the trouble he had jta yen in getting up and taising funds wherewith to purlehaae & new instruintnt ; t'» tbe ladies v,h» form the choir ; knd to the chairman, whom all present were pleased to see well enough to be nmougut them that evening. From an ove sight, <m acknowledgment was omitted of the kindness of the proprietor of the Waikato Times, in not charging for printing the tickets of admission to the lecture. On the - 6th of January the householders of the Waitetuua district met for the purpose of electing a, School Committ^, when the following geatbnien werechisea . — Messrs •John Moore, S-ivafle, button, Walhs, and Wilson. At a I meeting of committee held auWquenlly, Mr G. E. Savage was appointed chairman, and it was resolved to apply to the bo.ml of Education fo:- a, grunt of £10 to purchase school fin intuio with.

Febrnary 2. A deep gloom Lds been cast ovei our hide uouuu unity to-day, by the account received of the probable loss of the cutter Flora McDonald, for many families were expecting the letmn of konio of thoir relatives or friends by her, — and more passengers woie Unown to be on board than those mentioned by you in today's paper.