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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8985, 16 September 1892, Page 5

The adjourned meeting of the Auckland Baptist District Association took place last evening at the Tabernacle. The Rev, J. U. Gil more presided, and there was an excellent attendance. The chairman gave a forcible introductory address on "The Need of Service." Mr. S. H. Matthews read a paper on " The Aims and Objects of the Association," in which he set out at some length In detail the points which should be kept in view, and the matters to be accomplished. The Rev. G. D. Cox narrated the measures which the Association had already taken to overtake the wants of districts where work appeared to open to the denomination. Services were being held at Whangamarino, and would be held in the Waitakerei district. In some other districts with which they had been in communication, either there were sufficient agencies already or the ground had just been taken up. On the gumfields the Primitive Methodists had commenced an excellent mission, to which they must all wish God-speed ; but as there were 0000 men on the Northern gumfields, they could not cover all the ground, and thore was room enough for all. The Association had already by what it had dono justified its existence. It was intended, as soon as possible, to maintain a travelling agent who would visit country districts, as the result of joint co-operation on the part of the Tabernacle, Mount Eden, Ponaonby, and Thames Baptist Churches. The chairman said the Rev. Mr. YVoolley was unable to be up from the Thames, and his paper on " Loyalty to Our Denominational Principles" would be published in the New Zealand Baptist. The Rev. James Blailtie also spoke on " Home Mission Work." He had seen its value in Victoria, and the churches should heartily operate in aggressive Christian work, and see that the scattered population on the gumfields, sawmill stations, and mining districts had the privileges of religious services brought to them. He was sorry to learn that within 20 miles of Auckland, with all its churches and religious activities, there were settlements where they had only public worship once a month. Such a state of things should not exist. The meeting closed with the Benediction.

This evening Profes?or Pond is to deliver in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms, the third of the winter course of lectures, on "Grub-street and Its Inhabitants." It would seem from enquiries as if the title had proved a riddle to some. The lecturer will deal anecdotally with the hack-authors of the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, taking the cases of typical authors, some well-known, some obscure, and describing the shifts to which they were compelled to resort to gain a living, their quarrels with brother authors or with the booksellers, their treatment by the public, and generally the fortunes and misfortunes of those who then tried to live by literature. For these hack-authors, " Grub-street " is the generic natne. ■;■