MR BROMBY'S LECTURE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3662, 10 April 1883, Page 3

MR BROMBY'S LECTURE.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir, —In common wl_ many of yoi * readers I feel ob'"gcd t. you'for hav'nj called attention to tho mystei/ which has Irthei! _h'.*ouded the subject of the Hon. Mr Bromby's proposed lee. -c. I do not 1 ,'ow whether such bus been the case *"'i other parts of the tn\n, but i i the neighborhood '"'I wl- ; .ch I rcridc we have been annoyed both at our house; and in the street by sma' 1 cK'th-en of bo. i ::cxc. offer-

~"ig for sale tickets of admission to the above nr-iird lecture. Geriosity prompted mc to ask come of tho youth, i-l venelors a epi?_ ; .oii or two. One tiny maiden said the ilckc-.-were given to her by "a man"; she did not 1- low what the lecture wa > to be al nit, or who was to get the money; she or "y 1 lew it was to be at the Theatre, and that the price of a ticket was ha 1 '-a-crowa. Another little cl: :l d was better "rio-.ucd ; she thought the lecture was to be about " the w oiign of Irc-and." Qi'te so, S'r, and those oh I'd -en wi 11 probably be presented with ticket;, aud have 'nsti"cd into the"*.' youth .v! nv 'ds that hatred of the " Saxon oppr-ssor " which it appears to be the wish of some Patriots to awaken in the m"nds o.he yorng, and to perpetuate ; n the nr'nds of older people among the" * count ■•3 men.—l am, ke., A Colonist. Napier, Apri' 10, ISB3.

Sir, —liicsi'bjcctoftheHon.Mi-Bromby's lecti . this ever*' ig is rndevstiod to be the " H ; stoi/ of I ■e'and," and the object of the 'ecti**er to assist tl o fund for bri'diug a Catho"c Cuthedrrl ytHobaii. Last Sunday in St. John's Cnrrch the Bishop of Nelson delivered an admirable sei-non on the subject of ohveh j .deb* d-iess, and he po" itcd out : n forcible language that it was au evidence of river re I 'gion aud of honesty to pray :'n a bai_ than to go into debt iv order to erret a gravel pace of worship. It seems to me that the ambition of the good people of Hobart has not! rug io do with us ■' i Napier. If they cavuot afford to bvi'd the 5 " cathedral they had bet ..' leave it alone. We want a" our spaie half-crow -is for local clu'.rii'.es and local clv* relies. Jf we sent a lerir *er -o Hobari, or Melbor ie, or Sydney, to gather money to pay off some of or .* church debls, how much should we get ? Just as much as the lecture itsc u " vv-.-.s woi_i and noth'igmore, whether the object was for a cathedral or a theatre. So let it be here.—l a*u, _~ -i. ri-I-O.MBUG. Napier, Apr 1 10, 1883.