CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 19 February 1894, Page 4

CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE.

"Pakeha" dissents from Mr French's opinion that the Council should have accepted Pastor Spurgeon's offer of a bust of the Roy. C. H. Spurgeon, to bo placed iv the Art Gallery. He expresses the opinion that " the main object was nob to adorn the Art Gallery, but to perpetuate tho memory of tho Key. (J. H. Spurgeon, and the Art Gallery was never intended tor that purpose.'I—[We dissent) from "Pakeha," and agreo with Mr French. The g:reafa Baptist preacher was a man eminent enough for his bust, if executed by a competent sculptor, to tind its way imto any British Art Gallery. The Council would have boon right in accepting the s;ifb subject to the qualification that the buab should fulfil " Pakeha's " condition as a work of art that would adorn the Gallery.]

Mr J. Jordon, writes endorsing the Premier's opinion, expressed in a telegram to Mr Jackson Palmer, on tho need for putting down Hiich practices as were exposed during' the hearing of the recenb election petition. He enyn : " While human nature remains, i-i every community people will fall, bub for all that Waitemata is perhaps not very much bofctor certainly not very much woreetbsn any other constituency on the face of th« earth." He thinks tho tempters are primarily to blatuo for such practices. "■Well Wisher " recommends tho Domain as preferable either to Potter's Paddock or Motutapu for the annual Roman Catholic celebration on St. Patrick's Day. He thinks its more accessible, and that the demonstration will ce?6ainly bo better attended if held }n the Domain.