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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 1, Issue 18, 23 January 1858, Page 4

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AHURIRI. 0 ATA MEETING of Presbyterians, and of others desirous of seeing increased -£j- means of religious observance within the District, held on Saturday the 9th inst., in the Royal Hotel — A. Alexander Esq., in the chair, — It was resolved, -with reference to the address of the Rev. David Bruce, published in the "Hawke's Bay Herald," that the steps taken by him towards obtaining for this District the services of a zealous minister, were such as to merit the entire approval of the meeting, and that subscription lists be immediately opened with the view of . caising a fund for the double purpose of maintaining a minister and of making the neressary arrangements for his residence and ministration. 1 The manner in which the building fund should be disposed of was left for future 1 decision, so that subscribers might, if they chose, have a voice in such decision ; but ' the general feeling was that the sphere of a minister's labours should be the entire District, and that therefore he should be provided with ample means of travelling ; — that, ' in the present thinly populated state of the District, the erection of a church in any [• particular locality would not be necessary, even if it could be afforded ; but that a residence, or manse, in Napier, to contain an apartment sufficiently large for occasional " service, should be erected as soon as possible on a site to be chosen for that purpose. o LIST OF DONATIONS AND ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Build. Fund. An. Subscrip. £ s. d. £ s. d. Donald McLean , 20 0 0 5 0 0 [ Donald Gollan 15 0 0 5 0 0 A. Alexander , 10 0 0 5 0 0 G. M. Gray 5 0 0 2 0 0 John McKinnon 5 0 0 2 0 0 Daniel Munn 5 0 0 2 0 0 James Wood 5 0 0 2 0 0 Alex. Blair 5 0 0 2 0 0 J. A. Smith 110 o 0 0 M. Fitzgerald 10 0 0 0 0 Thos. Craig 10 0 0 0 0 W. Marshall 110 0 0 0 A. McLean 5 0 0 2 0 0 E. F. Harris 10 0 0 0 0 G. S. Cooper " 10 0 0 0 0 r J. Rhodes 10 0 0 0 0 Jno. Curling .10 0 0 0 0 J. B. Ferguson 10 0 0 0 0 T. HitchiNgs 10 0 0 0 0 T. C. Williams 10 0 0 0 0 J. M. McNiel 1 .0 0 0 0 0 W. McGowan 10 0 0 0 0 total £88 5 0 £27 0 0 SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received in Auckland, by the Rev. David Bruce ; here, by Capt. Munn, treasurer to the Fund ; and by Messrs. D. McLean, A. Alexander, Donald Gollan, G. M. Gray, or any member of the interim committee. Printed subscription lists may be had of the undersigned, to whom, on being filled up, it is requested they may be returned. JAMES WOOD, Honorary Secretary. Napier, 11th Jan., ISSB.

PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON. Notice to ■ Immigrants. THE Provincial-Government of Wellington will, in pursuance of the Resolution of the Provincial Council, be prepared to convey to each Immigrant, (introduced under their Regulations; as soon as he shall have redeemed his Promissory Note or Notes, a quantity of land equal in value (at the rate of 10s. an acre) to one fourth of the amount of his Passage Money. For example : every Immigrant on redemption of his Promissory Note or Notes, will be entitled to receive ten acres of land for every Twenty Pounds he shall have paid on account of the Passage of himself and family. These grants of land will either be made out of blocks specially reserved for Immigration purposes in Small Farm and Agriculural Settlements, or in the immediate | vicinity of roads in process of construction; or the Immigrant may select the quantity to which he shall be declared entitled out of any land open to purchase as Rural. In order to facilitate the location of Immigrants desirous of immediately settling upon land and of being employed on the Public Works, Reserves will be made wherever • practicable, along or near each line of road, and will be laid off in Ten-acre Sections, which the Immigrants will be permitted at once to occupy, receiving a conveyance of the same as soon as they shall have paid the whole of their Passage Money. Parties desirous of availing themselves of this privilege in the block at present being j surveyed in the Grey Town Settlement, are requested to make immediate application to the undersigned, who will give any further information that may be required. J. G. HotDSWORTH. Registrar of Immigration.