DUNEDIN. June 2.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2212, 3 June 1879, Page 2

DUNEDIN. June 2.

The Evangelist has ceased publication, after an existence of ten yean. It was commenced in 1809, by the Revs. Dr Copland. It was carried on by him almost unaided for four years, when it become the joint property of the Rev. Drs Copland and Stuart, Messrs Gow, Ryley, Todd, A. J. Burns, and W. D. S to wart. Since 1874 it has been edited by Dr Stuart It now gives place to th« New Zealand Presbyterian, which is under the care of Professor Salmond. "From its first appearance/ remarks the editor in his valedictory article, ."the Evangelist enjoyed a considerable circulation outside the bounds of the church and colony, and its articles have often been quoted in the organs of sister churches." The Riverton correspondent of the Southland News has it on the best authority that Mr Henry Hirst is agent for a man in Yorkshire, who lays claim to all the land in the district, the claim being comprised in a block purchased from that sanguinary old cannibal Bloody Jack, beginning at Howell'a Point, and running along the coast westward for twenty miles, and inland for ten miles. Not a bad slice of country for any man, is it 1 There seems to be some ground tor the claim, for the purohase or gift or whatever it may be termed is properly drawn up and duly signed and registered in the Land Office, Sydney, and is datod three years prior to the pnroliases made in this part of New Zealand by Mr Commissioner Mantoll. Bloody Jack passed it over to Mr Jonnny Jones, who in turn sold it to some one olse, who passed it along to some other body, who disposed of it to this man in Yorkshire, who is at present reaching for it. The committee to which the Presbyterian Synod entrusted the suitable celebration of the commemoration of the establishment of the Presbyterian Church of Otago, on the 17th June, 1854, are making satisfactory progress with the necessary arrangements. "[t is understood," says the Evangelist, " that these contemplate fa soiree in. the hall of -the First Church, as well as a public meeting intho church, undor the presidency of tho Moderator of Synod, at which an address will be presented to the Revs. W. Will and W. B.innerman, who, with the late Dr Burns, formed the clerical members of the Presbytery of Otago at its constitution, twenty-five years ago.