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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 225, 20 September 1905, Page 2

j Judges Wilkinson and Jackson Palmer ; continued to hear to-day the appeal case ; concerning some native land at OtakaI nimi. Mr Fred. Earl and Mr Blomfield appeared for several of the disputants in the case. The attention of the general committee of the men's mass meeting, in connection with the Auckland Diocesan Synod of this year is called to a notice of tho adjourned meeting advertised elsewhert". As some inquiries have been made as to the object these meetings of men and women are supposed to attain, it may be said that the idea is to form a body of public opinion on Christian lines. This year the organisation of the i men's meeting has been entrusted to ! the various men's societies throughout j Auckland and suburbs, and in this wayit is sought to teach those who are not usually in touch with the church movement. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of these mass meetings, and the one destined to prove of especial force, is the prominence given to the views of the laity. The meetings are primarily intended to be the vehicle of the ex- : pression of views by laymen to laymen upon all topics in which religion plays an essential part. The mass meeting on October 12 at the Choral Hall will be addressed by the Bishop of the diocese, Major-General Babington, and Mr C. J. Parr. His Worship the Mayor -will preside. Last year the meeting was so inconveniently prolonged that on the next occasion the time-table will be strictly enforced. People will thus be able to get home early. The Eden Terrace Road Board, at a meeting held last night, passed a resolution similar to that passed by the Grey Lynn Borough Council, recommending the Government to reimburse Dr. Hardie Neil's expenses in connection with the late Auckland Hospital inquiry. At the Supreme Court to-day the Registrar granted an order making absolute a decree nisi in the case of Lillian Beece Fleming v. Joseph Alexander Fleming. Mr Singer appeared for the petitioner. Why harbour dust in yonr best rooms i when you can have your carpets tborj oughly taken up and freed from dust lat a small expense by the D.SjC.—(Ad.)