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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1263, 14 May 1896, Page 19

At the opening of the Synod of the dioeeso of Grafton and Armidalo, Bishop Green, in the course of his address said, in reference to the need of more clergymen sympathies go with the outcry of the parishes for bright men, able men, educated men, polished men. 1 will find them for your posts all round if you will pay for them, but when I am required to produce an orator, an athlete, a musician, a scholar, a horseman, an architect, a lawyer, a man of business, of culture, of tact, and of fine commanding presence, and am thereupon commissioned to offer this Admirable Crichton something less than tho more skilled navvies receive upon a railway line, I confess tho disproportion appals and crushes me."

Messrs Harcourt and Co. on Tuesday sold by auction an improved farm of 308 acres, situated four miles from Pahiatua. The bidding rose from X'ilOs to .£5 2s Gd per acre, at which sum Mr Bcero became the purchaser.