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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7265, 22 October 1910, Page 4

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SYDENHAM CLUB'S CHAETEB. • . A postponement ctf 'tlie Sydenham Club's • deputation to the Hon. I). Buddb has j been arranged until 9.30 a.m. on Tuesday, wheal members of the committee ; will- address themselves to the question . of the Commissioner's findings on hid investigation of th© club's conduct. EVANGELIST MISEEPOETED. -"- "In course of an interview - yesterday," Says a Wanganui Press Association message, "Dr lienTy, the American evangelist; was- questioned regarding- the .reponfc going the rounds of the press relative to his final address at Waihi. D-r Henry'sexplanation puts a totally different complexion on-the report, wliiah, he said, is! distorted and fundamentally untrue.;' The missioner said: "In my thirty years'' experience I have mover repliod to aiews- ' paper criticism, and eo far as I" am per- ■ sdnally concerned would not'do so now. But if the telegraphed' reptortt is goingto influence the work, then for tho work's- - I am glad td make this, exrAana-' tdbn:" The foregoing no doubt refers 1o the pairagtt-aph published in this paper last - week : under the heading "Cowards' Castle," in wJiicli Dir Hena ; v was reported to IlaVe said that "in proportion to tho population, he. had' never seen eo majiv occupants of 'Cowards' Castle' as he had seen in AVaihi. They had not the courage of honest convictions, nor the cour-' ape of d Chinaman, and w-ere spirituail skunks. The. mission had been -tho hardest one in New Zealand. "His 1 voice, and eitremjrth had some, and his brain was in a whirl. He had pleaded his best. If. ho thought ho would have-such a difficult: time. a*»in with ,its burden and strain.! he iWduflH turii his baek'upoii it, for it would: break his heart. He would not l stand in their places for the Waihi miru? itself." ■..-■■