MR MATTHEW BURNETTS MISSION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2240, 16 November 1886, Page 2

MR MATTHEW BURNETTS MISSION.

Mr Matthkw BuiiXErr, the renowned temperance lecturer, arrived at Hamilton on Saturday. In the evening he held his tfrst meeting in the Public Hall, the Rev. J. S. Boyd occupying the chair. There was only a moderate attendance. Mr Burnett spoke at length, illustrating his arguments by a couple of anecdotes descriptive of the conversion of " Irish Mac," and " the reformed minister." Mrs Cox presided at the harmonium, and at the close of the meeting seven donned the blue ribbon. On Sunday Mr Burnett preached in the morning at the Presbyterian Church, and in the evening at the Wesleyan Church. In the afternoon he delivered an address on temperance to the combined Sunday-schools in the Public Hall. The hall was crowded, ami seven took the pledge. Yesterday afternoon, he addressed the pupils of the Hamilton West School, and secured 37 adherents to tht> cause. Last night, despite the threatening aspect of the weather, there was a full attendance at the Public Hall, and the lecturer spoke for an hour and a half, the subject being, " Life Pictures," including the story of " Little Johnny " and " Steve and Janet." In touching language, Mr Burnett related how these people had been w<»n over from drunkenness and degradation to habits of sobriety and usefulness. The chair was ably filled by the Rev. J. Bellow, and the united choirs of the Wesleyan and Presbyterian Churches rendered a number of Sankey's hymns in excellent style. Mrs C<>x presiding at the harmonium. At the close of the meeting 35 persons were invested with the teetotal badge. Thia afternoon Mr Burnett will address the pupils at the Hamilton East School, and at 7 p.m. he will hold an open air meeting near the Bank of New Zealand, marching thence to the Oddfellow's Hall, Hamilton East, where the final meeting of the mission will be held. ,

Reward offered for lost chestnut mare. We direct the special attention of housekeepers to the new advertisement of Mr W. R. Bridgman, 288 upper Queen-street, Auckland. The climax of blasphemous snobbery has surely been attained at Washington, where the occupants of the pews behind the President are stated to have refused the first communion-cup that was offered to them on a recent Sunday, as they desired to wait for the one out of which Mrs Cleveland had partaken of the Sacrament.