THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS AGITATI0N, [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Tuesday.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1707, 14 June 1883, Page 2

THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS AGITATION, [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Tuesday.

An adjourned meeting of the Ministers Conference was held to-day, to decide how to carry out the imparting of religious instruction on stated days in State schools. Tlifc result of the interviews on the subject with the various school committees was detailed, but a split occurred as to whether the charactpr of the teaching should be entirely undenominational or not. It was proposed, " That a committee appointed from the Conference should ovarspo fchp giving of instruction on the days agreed upon," ljufc thp Church of England clergy pefused tfi be bound to act under snoh committee, and on the resolution being carried, the Bishop and his clergy left the meeting, stating they wouid act for themselves. The Conference then proceeded to make the necessary arrangements. The President (Dr Stuart, Presbyterian), said he would not have believed, a fortnight ago, that any Protestant could have taken such 3, stand. 8$ the Episcopalians had in this mattet 1 .

Mr J. Knox will sell at the Hamilton Auction Mart on Saturday, furniture, produce, fowls ( Hamburghs), pigs, &c. Mr T. 0. Hammond warns parties indebted to the estate of Messrs Bc.iuchamp Bros, nsrainst' JWinU Messrs \y. J. flunter and Co., or their agepts. Two iiotLces by the poundkaeper ef the Cambridge Pound appear In our advertising columns. Tenders are invited up to the 18th for building concrete and brick culvert at O'Neill's, Peach Grove road, Hamilton. Mr R. W. Roche has been appointed collector and canvasser for The Waikafo Times fqf tee't'e Awanjutu and Alexandra districts. Me W. A. Richardson, $f Cambridge, has been^ippointed Waikato agent for the NewZealand Accident Insurance Company, and is authorised io^ > ssue tne company s rpceipt for approved accident insurance business. Claims for comgensatJQn should be mage direct to him for settlement, Osb dirty, and i?ahjy day, nqt Ipng ago, I was seated inside a cuewded tramcar, when a lad who had just stepped on the car pub his head in at the door and asked if there was any room. " No," came from a man in the corner, " we're - $ fyvtf here." Whereupon an old woman ,rose up and indignantly exclaimed—" The" rest may be, font I'm gey sfoure I'm no I " " y^ajJt impudence,'? exclaimed Mrs Shc44yi"H>re ma" nijj,n applying by letteifvfora' situation -as eoacjjman who jiigns himaelf* your, obedient -aervant|' "and; ihWrfe hofc^ QyQQ' tjliou,ihfc [of hyring