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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 44, 4 January 1864, Page 2

riUili m.s. 'LOKD ASHLEY , will 1 *KSL -I- «"' for h P ier > Wellington, Lyttelton and 0 go, on WEDNESDAY : %ffi.).?jip' next at 0N °' cloclc ' P- nl, ' ' nstead °* ™astae£3V t nu . prov i ous iy advertised:. 11. M. JERVIS, Local Manager. FOR SYDNEY. rrnE ' kate , will eau this day, "&QHV JL Monday, 4th January, 1861. For freigbt or paswge, apply to £g=~fZ HENDERSON & MACFARLANE. .liiiiiinn- 4, 1864-. REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. IN accordanco with a resolution of the City Board of Commissioners, I linvo to requost a Public Meeting of the Citizens to be held in the Brunswick Hall, THIS (MONDAY) EVENING, to consider the propriety of forwarding an address to Her Majesty tho Queen against tho proposed removal of the Seat of Government, and to adopt such other measures as may bo resolved upon. The chair will bo taken at seven o'clock precisely. ANDREW HEVEHIDGE, Chairman. Auckland, 4th Jan., 18G4. LODGE ARA, No. 318, I. C. mHE above Lodge will meet THIS (MONDAY) X EVENING, at half-past 7 p.m. By order of the W. M. AUCKLAND REGATTA, 1864. ATUBLIC MEETING of those gentlemen who aro desirous of promoting this annual fitc is requested to be held at the Waitcmnta Hotel, on TUESDAY (TO-MORItOW) EVENING, tho olh instant. Chair to be taken at 7 o'clock sharp. PUBLIC LECTURE. PniKTINO J ITS HIBTOHY AND ITS INFLUENCES. ON TUESDAY EVENING- NEXT, January sth, Mr. F. Stuekt will deliver a Lecture on the above subject, in tho Parnell Wcaleyau Chapel, for the benefit of the Chapel funds. BYIXABUB. Man a progressive being.—Early attempts to perpetuate historical facts and astronomical cumulations. —Hieroglyphics of the Egyptians and Mexicans.— Origin of alphabetical characters and writing.— Ancient manuscripts.—Monastic institutions of lingland.—The germ of tho alt of printing ; fitamps, brands, and coins of tho ancients.—Engraving ; monumental brasses and tho portraitures of Varro. —Block printing; playing cards, liiblia. Pawperum, and printing among the Chinese. —Invention of printing from movable metal types. —Gutenberg ; his life's labours and its results.—Faust's ungenerous spirit, the fatal lawsuit, and tho ruin of Gutenberg.—The malice of the priesthood ; their success and their failure.—Caxton's inauspicious boyhood, his foreign commerce, and tho introduction of printing into England.—Gloom of Mcdiaval England dissipated by tho press.—The first newspaper. — Modern journalism; its political and social influences. —The impure press. A fac-simile of tho liiblia Paupenim, as well as of illuminated manuscripts and stamps, will bo introduced in the course of the lecture.

Chair to be taken at 7 o'clock.—Admission Is. IN consequence of the decease of Mr. John Rce 1, of Stokes' Point, the HALL advertised to take place at the North Shore Hotel THIS EVENING, will be deferred till tho evening of MONDAY the 11th instant. WESLEY COLLEGE will re-open on Monday, January 25th. A prospectus may be had on application. J. FLETCHER, Principal. HIGH SCHOOL, AUCKLAND. M«. Fabquiiah Mcßae, Rector. Mh. John Johnston, Second Master. THE SECOND SESSION will commence on MONDAY, Ist February, 1864. The better to carry out the purposes of the Institution, the Rector has sent home ibr an additional Master, who ie expected to arrive early in February. WELLESLEY-STREET DAY SCHOOL. J REX begs most respectfully to inform the in- • habitants of Auckland that tho abovo School will re-open THIS DAY, January 4th, 1864. Terms Is. per week. CJ. STONE has this dav admitted MR. • CHARLES BURRELL STONE as a partner in the business hitherto conducted by himself. Tho business will in future bo carried on under the firm of C. J. STONE & SON. Queen-etreet Wharf, January 1, 1861. C. J. STONE & SON, MERCHANTS, SHIPPING AXD GENERAL AGENTS. AOEKTS FOR I). ANDEKSON & SON'S VATEXT ItOOHNG SIIEATHIXO, AND lIOILEU I'KLT. Agents for all kinds of Colonial Produce. Queen-street "Wharf, January 1, 1864.