RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2098, 17 December 1885, Page 2

RAGLAN.

Di'Kivo the last week of Novomber tho Rpv. Mr Philips pud us his quaitcily visit, holding sei vices at Rmpuke, and .\t To Nl.it v. Waitetuna, and Raglan, on Kundyd >y the 2i)th. At both of the Litter places he had veiy large congregations. At tho service held in the evening .it Raglan, Mi Philips iireath°d in a pr.ntic.«l and earnest manner to those present, discoursing upon in my of the evil* of oui undent ->oci.il life, drunkenness, malice, envy, .uid self seeking, and showing the necessity of man's humility before God. and the benefit we may leeeivo by u daily letiimg and examination of ourselves. The weather hem? be mtifully hue, he was enabled to \ lilt most of the families in the <b-,tnct The Rev. Mr Stephenson has lutmued from the Wesleyan District Meeting lately held in Auckland. It was propo-ed by some member of that meeting t > i emote the minister from tin-, di-ttiut, thus leaving thodistiict without the ministration of a resident minister. Hut wiser and mmo libeial views pievail<*d, and so the pieseut airangeinent will continue. Them hkkuii for all, iind it would be good for the place if all churches were thriving heic, an] c\ory tn.in could worship in his <> ah church. The Rev. Mr JJellow pipicbes. here on Sunday next, the 13th, Mr Stephenson taking'hib pi ice m Hamilton. On Mon iiy evening at Okete, Mr Dellow will be present at a Home Mission meetimr. A great deal of excitement is taking pi >cfl heie in consequence of the pu-po, il of the Bo.ud of Education to pi ike the W.uteluna and Rigl.m schools half tnn u one-, and seeing both of them have .in average attend anio ab >ve2l, and :xre mui easing in nunrber too, the Kiglan school havmgoOon the roll, it seems one of th'i- ' c»s«< tint no felloe can undei-tand. Howevpr, determined opposition is In ing nude to the pinpos.tl, nnd it i* to be ho])ed the united meeting to V bold at To Mita n"vt Monday will take such meastues as will defeat the object in view. It is evident tli tt heie is another cause in winch count! y districts must unite. If re trenchment is the oider of the d iy, begin when) the extwuagance takes place, viz , in the city. A good number of visitors have been with us of late. Andweaie looking for a Luge influx' of the sick as well as the hils and heaity. No doubt as wondeiful ones will be rep >ited as from Te Aroha or elsewhere. At any rite the writer can testify to the wondeiful cuiativo powers of this health giving spit, having been in tho last stjgo of that dire disease consump tion, as ni uiy in both W.ukato and heio cm testify. Our death rate stands lowest almost of any place in the colony. And for ,v health le^ort no better place can be found. And to one and all I .say, "come and see " Attention has b?en drawn by a gentleman living in Waikato to the desii.ibihty of stalling .1 fish industry here, under tho Act pissed last session. No doubt but a market is to be found in Walk ito, and .is our water* swarm with evcollent fish of all kinds, it only wants industry and plant to go in and win. — (Own Coi rospondout, Raglan, Dec. 11th, 18S5.