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Evening Star, Issue 5229, 8 December 1879, Page 2

Mr r. (J. Pryde was last evening admitted into the deaconate of Knox Church. Wc have received f sveral letters bearing on the question of the validity of the late Mayoral election, hut must decline to insort theiu while the case is still pending. The Mala party in connection with the handicap fov the Dunedin Cup, have found a champion in a writer «i a letter to this morning's ' Daily Times.' This writer, who himself <; Fair I'lay," proves so conclusively to own sat sfacUnii that Mata has in- earthly «ho'.v in the r.-ic" that it i-i a wonder the owner of the hor?c does not scratch him innrtcdii'.-tely. On Saturday eveninj.; the stjoourl jumnal dinner of the ' Morning Herald ' employ Cm ' wan held at Wain's Hotel, about fifty persons, including a few quests, forming the company. Mr J. C Franor ofihialod an chairman, and Mr \i. Wilson occupied tin vice-chair. The nriucipul toast, "Suecew to the ' Morning {Herald,' " was proposed by Mr J. Connor and responded to by the chairman, who in the course of his Rpepoh utated that, notwithstanding tho prertmt oommercial depression, the ' Herald ' had closed ita second year with a substantial balance to its credit. Roveral other towta were proponed and aoknowleflgej, iljv Welling e P y otf j very pleasantly, f