SOIREE AT TUAKAU.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4848, 11 March 1873, Page 3

SOIREE AT TUAKAU.

A soikki: w.iq beld at tho sjhoolhouse, Tualean, on Friday last, March 7, for the purpose f>[ r.usmg fund? for tho Snnday-kohool tint haa been opened through tho exertions of Mr9 G'olclough and Mr. Mason, Bible colportmtr, who iu just now staying in tho district, tent by the Bible Society to visit the navvies. The navvi«8 were invited to attend, ami many of them camo. Tho only drawback was tho amalluesaof the room. It wan t.istufully decorated and Jooke.l vevy well j but it will barely hold 00 pcoplo, and, as f'llly a bundled flat down to tea. m parties, for there was no othor possible way, tho ! room was very crowded, and numbers had to stay outsido. There is, in fact, great need for some largo public bnildmy here, either a new school-houao or a Volunteer Hall. Traya were provided by the following ladies : Mrs. C'olclough (this tray might bo called the achool-tray, as tho children of tho school and their parents contributed to it), Mrs. Forgie, Mra. McMillan, Mrs. .Smecd, and Mrs. Walker. Aftor tho tables wore cleared Mr. Thomas Walker was called to the chair, and requested Mr, Maaon to address tho meeting. This gentleman, who i* a great favourite in the district, did so in a very earnest speech, and made several humorous remaiku about inviting the navvies, remarking on how they bad "furbished up," and come forward in a most ordorly and rcspectablo manner. He should ever look back with feelings not only of ploasuro but of deep thankfulness to his stay in Tualcau, which, seeing that tho Sunday-school had boen opened niuler most oncovu aging circumstances, helped by tho Sunday Bchool Uuion, and that even tho contractois and navvies, strangers to tho district, had como forward cordially to second our olFortfl, and anHist us, ho thought had been a mo»t successful stay. Mrs. Colclough then delivered her lecture ou tho " Subjection of Woman, 1 ' considerably .abridged, tho telling points eliciting the usual applauao. After this tho meeting was addressed by Mr. A. McDonald, of K.ast I'tikelcoho. Then Captain B. Hums proposed a vote of thanks to tho ladies who had given tho trays, and gave a humorous description of th» first Sunday-school tc.i in. cting ho hful over attended in Tuakau duung tho native occupation, and contrasted it with tho present civilised affair. Votes of tl'anka wore then accorded to Mi. MdHon, to Mis. Colclough, and to tho clmirniaii, and aftor Bulging a hymn tho meeting w :& cloaed by Mr. Masott with prayer