WAIKATO NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 217, 14 September 1888, Page 3

WAIKATO NOTES.

(iriatftf fOuE own corkeseondent.)

.':. Hamilton, Tburisday. At fcße Borough Council meeting laßt night Cr. Bell brought forward a motion, "That ih tlje interests pf retJrenchraent ■ all etreej; lamps in the borough except those on the traffic bridge be done away with." / As ah, amendmenbCr.'Knox proposed, f That one lamp on ihe bridge and one at the Railway Station be done away with," which was carried. In view of the election which takes place tp-mprVow this was lopped on as a catch motion. , . .. t . .. I re^refc to have to record the death or another old colonist. Mrs. James Kunciinan, wife of Captain Eunciman, of Marsh M-aadowsy died yesterday at the age oi W years. Mrs Eunciman had been ■ailing tor some.little time, and, will be sincerely^regretted by a!large, circlet of friends both in \yaikato and Aucklancl districts. . , -The quarterly Conference of the clerical and lay members of the Arohdeaconry of Waikato was held in Hamilton yesterday. ! Archdeacon .Willis' in the dhair.: The tol|lowin|T clergy Aver^ ■^lap, present :--Kev.O. Marshall, Te Aroha; Rqv. B. J. b°lu» le AWarautu ; Rev. Dr. flooper, Cambridge;! land Jlev. Robert £iggs, Hamilton. _Lay^j I members: Br. Moore; Messrs; Wills,;l!i-i. Cox'iv' Himilt, Ahurs,, Sedcipn,; San^es, : Logan, Cqopev, Joily, gofillt, Connell, 'ftrid Stevens. A nutnher di lady visitors also were present, r A_n interesting discusBiontqok, piace' on tlie advisability-ot en-. deavouring' to establish a Central l)ipcesan Fund, from* which clergymen s stipends:should be-^ iu^ part paid. . Ane principle was-affirmed, and 6tep3. wKen ,bo "bring the matter before next bynoa. •Mr SielmWreaa'a1 papet'on the observanco of the Church's seasons^ which was wen received; A disousaipn took place on tne qbjections to the Athanasian Creed, and A|r fills' read;a paper on the necessity o| prQ: ficiency in extempore pteaohing as a qualification for Holy Otderß. The viextor.B were entertained' afc toa' by the ladies of bt>. Peter's, Hamilton, /-