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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1590, 17 March 1875, Page 2

It will afford general satisfaction to observe that the friends of the Young Men's Christian Association have not given way to despondency. The meeting held last night may be regarded as eminently successful in having dispelled the cloud of gloom that was settling down on the management of that institution, and in having inspired new hopes which we. confidently believe will be realised. Thanks are due to the gentlemen who turned the current of feeling, and refused to listen to the counsels of despair. We believe it required only that the real urgency of the circumstances should be made known, and those who took the more pleasant view of the position and prospects will find that their opinion will be borne out by the public. It would have been a deplorable thing, and a lasting stigma on the character of of the city, if such an Institution had been allowed to suddenly collapse for lack of a few hundred pounds, and in the interest of every benevolent enterprise existing among ua, or yet to be evolved in the flight of time, we trust that willing and abonnding aid will at once be forthcoming to rescue this, the mother of institutions, from the difficulties in which it is momentarily involved.