AUCKLAND STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2404, 4 December 1877, Page 3

AUCKLAND STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION.

„ , TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS. Bank of New Zealand—Buyers, £22105. Rational Bank-Buyer3, 70s. wlonial Bank-Buyers. 495. wrath British Insurance—763 Gd; buyers, 765; severs, 775. [ T mon Insurance—lo3 6d; buyers, 10s 6d. ft? Zealand Insurance—Buyera, 92s 6d. & Door (3rd issue)— Sellers, £1015s. jUuedonian (dble)—B23 6d, 753; buyers, 70s; ; buyers, 80s ; sellers, 82s 6d. Allrarnia-Buyers, 67s 6d (ex div). ganniii Hill-Sellers, 18s. &*>-Bs, 93. 31s. welcome—Sellers, 4s 6d (ox div. JOSEPH NKWMA.N. Chairman.

OWNING OF~A~NEW~~C~ATHOLIC .. READING ROOM.

tl»B 6EI' T attended meeting of members of ew om.an Catholic Church was held last WtW? ln St- Patrick's Hall, Hobson-street, conL ?- c view oi opening a reading-room in IhTrr 10H with- the Christian Doctrine Society. (ZJejy Rev. H. J. Fynes, Vicar-General, H iea the chair. Tho Rev. Fathers W. fWonald, O'Dwyer, aud Grange, and Mr w.°°Flau, and other well-known citizens, mann Opresent- 'riie Very Rev. the Chairoitho • ne" Proceedings with an address taJ 16 "ninediate object of the meeting, and DocSF gained the nature of the Christian totS B?ciety. referred to the advantages «to»f? by Catholic young men from its r" A horary of standard, moral, and tociph- § rature was in the possession of the <4to*' ™ open to the Public at a nominal lehgjr; father Fynes then touched upon the >aof?^ aspects of the age, and alluded to the charaiTt 9{. iatlifferentism and infidelity so aS®ri3tlc.of the age, and adverted in an ia AnTi maniier to tho doctrines promulgated tct^ireeentlybya certain '"bright" lilasnhp- Jt could surely be nothing short of M ha? 7,, 40 say that an all-wise and loving %£?„ T J?wed the people of the earth to be for stateof darkness and spiritual slavery fcser™ ?leh 6,000 years, and that it was fte Zli Or )his- the 19bh century, to witness obextv in 0 tlle a^e ol religious and civil %j I' lac atheistical writers of the present bncetw men of learning and ability, and • ntin^s were the more dangerous. pallthi • mon strous doctrines were enveloped lence it a cur and beauty of language, and iNfrae* ? s° many were carried away, in X? S5 0m even the belief of a Supremo fyueg p slter some further remarks, Father is eflWforted m a bearers to encourage Man n ,°- £ the members of the ''teraturo Uo,ctrine Society to supply religious intelligence from all parts of the H Z?llw i benefit of the Catholic community, « ihat E 11^1!^ and American !f reaTifn nd Periodicals would be found in B3 hl'room- He concluded an eloquent r&s re'afli roinarking upon the advantages of LT-&vw3andmoral culture. (Cheers). Mr w made aQ excellent speech on the "eiore the meeting, and spoke in high

terms.on the excellence of Catholic literature. He moved, "That this meeting pledges itself to warmly foster and support the library and reading-room of the Christian Doctrine Society." The motion was unanimously adopted. Rev. Father Walter Macdonald then made a few remarks, and moved a vote of thanks to the Very Rev. Chairman, who had taken so much interest in the matter. The vote was carried by acclamation ; and the reading-room, which was tastefully decorated with representative flags and flowers, was duly opened.