AUCKLAND NOTES

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 10 September 1885, Page 3

AUCKLAND NOTES

[l i!()\l (Jill OWN ( OHIU sI'OND! \ I ] Aithi \M>, Scptcmbci '). Oik municipal election!, ha\e pas-cd ofl quietly, notwithstanding .ill the calunin} which h.ii latelj been heaped upim tin heads of our councillors. Onu might have nitmally .mtictp.ited th.it many of t lit 1 appaiuuly ofienihng counulloi-i would not have been returned when the r.itcpa^cisnric a(f>>idu4 the oppoitunity to piovent them Otu anticipations would however h.i\e been inuoircct, for the election jiiit past his been the means of etlectmg \eiy little change m the personnel of our citj council Some new blond will, howevei be infused into tho council. Owing to the resignation and letnenient of Mc-ms Upton and MacKeeluiie, who have both earned the imputation dt bjuig earnest and pallet iking lepiesentatnes. Mi Upton, who lesigned his position on .ictount of failing health, has li.nl to resign the chaii tuan-hip of the 15 i.ud of .education fiom tin; same cause. The accession of Mr Geo. Holdship to ;i seat at the council table should, fiotii the lL'put.ition we know he possesses as. . i good business man, seive to prevent a lepitition of son.c ot the financial blundeis om city fatheit. weie guilty of di.img then last teiin of othce. The public meetings held lately fot the object of forming a Ratepayers Association have as yet proved an utter failuie, only a few pel sons attending. The citi/en-. of Auckland aio appaieiitly not in the huinout foi .such a thing yet. Maishal Booth has, amongst othei things, caused public attention to be tinned towards the state of the deini nmude in Auckland. Tho revelations bionght to light disclose scenes of squalour and mineiy to which many people have thought this city was a stranger. We are just now having anm on this, kind of horrois. The 1)..H was hi -t set rolling by the Pall Mall G.uette, and the subject forma a good te\t for revivalists, lefonners, and Salvation Army officials, but we may take it for granted that the matter has lost nothing by lepetition, and that as usual, each new tale of honor staves to excel in atiocity and vice its predecessor. Fiom tins encumstanto we see how much one pait of the world affects another, and that we aie all links m the same chain ; the. potency of the electric telegiaph and the l'icss me unprecedented. The punting of the Pall .Mall Gazette revelations is undoubtedly tho eau>e of the social purity movement at the Vnti podes. Dining Mi Booth's stay in Anck land, the Salvation Aimy seems to have recovered much of its waning power. At one of the meeting-, presided ovei bv the Marshal, a voice cued out "Yes, that's a working man's religion." The Maishn), ever ready to spue a, point, leplied " Yus, that's the, religion we want ; we dnnt want a kid glove leligion."' The Maish.il has, undoubtedly, gieat tact in leaching tho lower ordeis When he left Auckland for tho South last weok, ho was pla\od down to tho vessel by the band, and gieat numbers of people assembled on the whaif to see hi'n off. He seemed tv have quite an ovation. The Anglican Mission is a great success. The missioners, both of whom are earnest and eloquent, secure crowded congregations to their morning and evening services. It us very questionable, howevei, whether they will taicceed in reaching the lowei classes of our population in the manner which the Salvation Army does. Gerald Massey has nearly concluded his couuse of lectures in this city. His lectme on "Robert Burns, Poet and Heietic," which he delivered on Sunday evening, was a liusteily one, and was well attended. To-morrow night he lectures on •' The Fall ot Man," and has been kind enough to send complunentaiy tickets to mimsteisof vai ions denomm iti'ins in this city, so th it tin y may thus be piesent, and discuss the subject with him. 1 see by last night's Star tint some, of them hive expiossed their intention of accepting the invitation, so we may e\| ect instruction and interesting pioce i d ings. The Maiist Brotheis have now com tnenced Vi teach in the largo building in Pitt >tie,"t, which was elected dining tho pei nid of Father Henneben v's mission, so that we h ive h id an educational seminal y of no mean mdci established in onr city. Altogether we Invc hid a great inn on lehgious refoimition, nearly overy sect, having bi ought its artillery to beat on the s-pnitof unbelief anil tho state of wickedness in which onr poor Ancklander-, lie, that the kingdom of Bpp/.lebub ought to totter to its veiy foundations. The (Jo v eminent appears to have aveited dofeat jon Mijor Atkinson's resolutions by the manipulation (if the Maori vote. This ciicumsUnoo haa caused considerable at tention in political aiticle*, and it is questionable whether it will not lead to amended legislation in the Maon Repiesentutive Act. In any caso the Maon members aie an annually in tho House, and as wo have seen by voting in block they may settlo any impoitant .subject before tho House. The Hot- ii u i Hospital caso appeared vei y black until we heaid the other side. Whon we aie told of tluee d vys sleeping in the fern being repiesented as fouiteen days, and that other donciiptive mattei is m accordance, our sympathy must be somewhat divei ted to the doctor. In this case, as in all other cases, "one story is good until anothei is told." The Doric received an unusually quick despatch. As an nistancu of what can be done at this port, it is only necessary to quote tho fact that in a little ovei two d iy-, the Dorio put out 127."> tons of caigo. She took in 500 tons of coal and 37~>3 cii cases of mutton, 0.18 pieces of beef, and a quantity of other caigo for London and Kio J.ineuo. This will open the oyos of the Southerners to tho fact that wo aro able, when needed, t<> diiohaigoa vessel heiemoieexpeditiously than can be done at any other New Zealand port. The case of the Oftici d As->ignao v. The Education Board has attracted considerable attention, Judge Gillies in giving his decision commented seveiely on tho character of the defence set up, and s nd the members of the boaid weie peiionally liable for tho amount. K»eu had the defence set up by tho boaid been good they would have been guilty of a nnsappiopnation of public funds. Notwithstanding theao strictures from so eminent an authority as Judge Gillies, the boaid passod a lesolution ordering tho boaid to repay the money to the assignee, Mossis Cooper and Goldie alone voting against the motion. When we consider that one of our eminent (?) profesHort was in the majority we way well hay with Fielding that ; " vjrfcue and vipo aro topics of dis course." But Nomesis is not asleep. By yesterday's Herald we learn that Mr J. M. Speed, solicitor, hn.s given notice to the Board of Education, that unless the resolution passod at the last meeting to pay the £200 claimed by tho OffioialAssigi ©3, on behalf of Mr P. Peacock's estate, is leceived. and th« members pay tho amount them selves, he will tuke proceedings fur a misappropriation of public funds. Mr Speed ib instructed by a citizen who claims a statin under the Act. The proceedings in the c »s« if it is gone on with, will be vpi y int3restmg. And theso forsooh, are the giuidian deities and instructors of our youth. What aio wo all coming to !