PROPOSED ENGLISH SOCIETY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 8

PROPOSED ENGLISH SOCIETY.

TO THB EDITOR. Sir, — Some time ago you were good enough to indicate in your columns the need for the establishment of an English Society in New Zealand, and I have been somewhat surprised that the idea was not enthusiastically received and carried into effect. The very fact that we have well-organised and powerful Scotch, Irish, and Welsh Societies would show that there is room for an English Society, which would promote the interests of Englishmen, ami cement the national bond which should hold them together. It may be true that Englishmen have abstained from forming such a society from a feeling that it was their country into which their Scotch, Irish, and Welsh friends came to settle, and that it was natural that these should desire to associate then Iselves together, but that is not realiy the case in New Zealand, and at the | present time it is the English who are more out in the cold than any other British are. If this idea of forming an English Society is favourably received, there should not be much difficulty in making a beginning and developing tne strongest national society in the Dominion. If a few would meet together, formulate a draft constitution, and call a meeting, the project would soon be launched. — I am, etc., ENGLISHMAN. i.oth May.

After luncheon recess at the Auckland Magistrate's Court on Thursday, the assembled counsel made a chorus of enquiries as to when their respective cases were likply to receive attention. "I will sit on until 5.30 or six," replied Mr. Kettle, S.M. "I can't do more than that. At any rate, I will fo on sitting till something is hatched." 'he case being then heard (reports the Herald) lasted until 5.45, and ended in a nonsuit — a not altogether satisfactory ending after so lengthy a "sitting." The Wellington Crown Lands Office to-day opened for selection 263 acres of the Normandale settlement, Belmont survey district, Lower Hult. There were in all ten sections offered, ranging in area from three acres to seventy acres, with half-yearly rentals varying from £4 10s to £21 5s 3d. There were no applications.