LECTURES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8955, 12 August 1892, Page 3 (Supplement)

LECTURES.

An illustrated lecture was given on July 21 by Mr. Thos. Ball, in the St. Alban's schoolroom, on " The Earliest Forms of Animal Life." Mr. Vosper took the chair. The object of the meeting was to raise funds to send through Bishop Cowie to the Bishop of Saint John's, New Brunswick, for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire which destroyed many lives, rendered thousands homeless, and resulted in the destruction of over a million pounds' worth of property. The Bishop of New Brunswick has communicated with the bishops in the Australasian colonies and different parts of the world, asking them to render assistance, and probably Bishop Cowie will induce churchmen in this diocese to devote offertories of some Sunday for this purpose. ..he lecture on July 21 was a spontaneous c and the funds raised by it will be in addition to any assistance which will be pi von by special offertories on any Sunday that the Bishop may be pleased to appoint. .Perhaps one of the most interesting of t 0 present series of winter entertainments Riven under the auspices of the Y M C.A. was the lecture given on August 5 by the W. Mo rley entitled "Thirty Thou,sand Mlles by Sea and Land." Mr. E. j

Withy presided. There was only a moderate attendance. The leotard embodied Mr. Morley's impressions of a visit to Great Britain and the European Continent, made some three or four years ago after a residence of twfcrity-fouf years under the Southern OrOss. Mr. Morley wan tendered a hearty V6te tit thanks for his able lecture. A lecture was delivered in the Hall of the Y.M.C.A. on the 2nd August by the Right Rev. Dr. Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania, on " Reminiscences of the late Dean Stanley, of Westminster, and the Literary Men of the Day who were at the Deanery i Their Table Talk." There was a fair attendance, and the chair was .taken by the Right Rev. Dr. Cowie, the lecture being in aid of the Native Pastorate Fund of the diocese of Auckland. At the close a vote of thanks was accorded the lecturer. On Monday, July 25, Mr. Andrew Gray delivered, before the St. Luke's Mutual Improvement Society, Remuera, an interesting and instructive lecture On "The Chemistry of the Atmosphere." The lecture was illustrated by several experiments showing the qualities of the gases of the atmosphere. Among the most beautiful of the experiments were the burning in oxygen of carbon, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, and other materials. These experiments deeply interested the large audience. A lecture on the " Life and Times of Daniel O'Connell" was delivered on July 26 in St. Patrick's Hall, under the auspices of the Auckland Catholic Literary Society, by the Hon. J. A. Tole. At its conclusion Mr. Hackett came forward, and proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Tola, and the motion, on being put to the meeting, was carried by acclamation.