PARLIAMENTARY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1888, 11 August 1874, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

(Per Anglo-Australian Telegraph Press Agency.) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ABOLITION OF THE NORTH ISLAND PROVINCES. Government Buildings, Monday, 8 p.m. Mr Vogel has given notice that he wil introduce three resolutions, as follows (1) That considering the altered circum stances of the colony, it is desirable tha the provinces of the North Island shouli be abolished. (2) That Wellingtor should be made the seat of Government (3) And that the land revenue should b made local revenue according to wha was known as the Compact of 1856, am that the Government shall during the re cess consider how best to give effect t these resolutions. The resolutions wer received with applause.

errors, which were originally only marginal notes on the MSS. intended as explanations, came to be copied into subsequent MSB. None of these three great Miaß. were written before the year p 301, and it remained therefore to provo « that they contained the very words of the t Apostles, for Scripture depended for its jj value upon its authenticity, and upon the f age in which it was written. His Lord- £ ship then proceeded in a lucid and i learned manner, which evidenced the £ most exhaustive research, to trace the I New Testament from the oral preaching t of the Apostles followed by the writings > of the Evangelists, and subsequently by s those of Clement of Rome in the year 95, ' and those of Ignatius, who was martyred ( in the year 107, in which ho traced the ' idiomatic phrases of the Apostles up to J the year 195, when they had the first authentic historical records. He also * alluded to s the Syriac and Latin versions j of the Greek MSS. which were ' available, and which were written ' as versions of the Greek MSS. 200 years ' previous to the date at which the three 1 Greek MSS., to which he alluded, could ; have been written. There were numerous ' other Greek MSS. of subsequent date, 1 more or less imperfect, but his 1 Lordship pointed out how closely they ail ; assimilated. He said that the English | authorised version was translated from the ] received text of the Greeks. His Lord- ] ship concluded by recommending a closer 1 study of the Greek language as opening up a large field for knowledge and profit, The Rev. V; Lush proposed a vote of thanks to his Lordship, and requested that on his return he would deliver his other lecture on this subject in connection with the new translation which was now being made.—Mr li. H. Power seconded the motion.- His Lordship acknowledged the compliment, and said it would afford him great pleasure to comply with the request.—The Doxology was then sung, after which his Lordship explained to those who remained the facsimile which, during the lecture, had remained suspended from the front of reading desk.