WAIHI NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13226, 11 July 1906, Page 6

WAIHI NEWS.

[iIIOM oub owk co-respondent.]

Waihi, Tuesday. The weather lately has been very squally and unpleasant.

A young man named Harold Qu&nce was find £1 with costs (£2 3s) for rescuing a horse from the pound.

A large number of Orangemen attended the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday morning, when the Rev T B. Woolloxall", chaplain of' the lodge, gave an interesting address. At the close of the service the National Anthem was sung-.

A most, successful ball was held at the Academy of Music, Waihi, on Friday night last. There was a very large attendance. Quite a number of visitors came from Thames, Paeroa, Waikino, and Katikati. In the course of an interesting account of Maori mission work connected with tho Presbyterian Church, the Rev. J. Pattullo took occasion to eulogis© the efforts on behalf of Maori girls made by the Anglican Church. The Presbyterian Church was now also recognising its responsibilities in lifting the Maori to a higher level, and with that object in view a school had been established at Taumarunui, where Maori girls would be taught domestic work so that the homes and hapus of the Maoris should as a result bo kept in a better sanitary condition. In addition to the male missionaries engaged in itinerant work two women had been employed, and it was considered that their labours would have a helpful influence in the lives of the natives.