YOUNG WOMEN'S PRAYER UNION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11131, 17 February 1886, Page 2

YOUNG WOMEN'S PRAYER UNION.

The annual social gathering in con" nection with the Young Women* Prayer Union, held last night in Trinity Ohiirch schoolroom, proved a very pleasant and successful affair. The tea arrangements were under the entire control and management of the young ladies themselves, and right well did they fulfil the duties and responsibilities they had voluntarily assumed. The tables were furnished, presided over, and attended, as follows:— No. 1, Misies Field and Taylor ; No. 2, Misses L-, M., and B. Bell ,* No. 3, Misses Hogg, McLaren, and K. Boberts; No. 4, Misses Silby, Dixon, and A, Horn; No. 5, Misses Tucker, Lett, and Orichton ; No. 6, Misses Purnell and Townsend (2). After tea a considerable interval was , allowed for social converse, the public meeting being commenced at 8 o'clock, under the chairmanship of Mr Q. Oarson, the president of the Young Men's Christian Association, The speaking and singing during the evening were above the average in merit and attract tivepess, the result being that the audience, which was a large one, were loth to leave, and sat oontenteily in their seats until a quarter past 10 o'clock, when the benediction was pronounced by the fiev. Mr Grant, of New Plymouth. The evening's programme was niaJe up as follows : — Opening hymn (Sankey's, 154) ; prayer, Mr B. Tucker; chairman's address; solo, "He wipes the tear from every eye," Miss Nicholas ; address, Mr George Grant; pianoforte solo, "Arabesque," "Eclogue" (Heller), Mrs Baker; solo, "Comfort ye," and"Kvory valley," Mr P. Bell ; address, Rev. W . Gk-ant; solo, " Ruth," Mis 3 Eila Ball; address, Mr B. Tucker ; solo, " Gates of the West," Mis 3 Whittaker ; address, Mr Horsley. A general vofce of thanks, aud the pronouncing of the benediction, brought to a closs a very enjoyable and successful anniversary celebrati mi.

Mr Seryieo, the Victorian i'remier, threw out in the oouroo of a recant speech the following, whic-h ia worth pondering over by our own Gf- jvernmenb. jffe said: — "I want fcho peop'e of Viotoria to lay ie down as a rule that the3o lailnuya should be made to pay the interest on the national debt, and olwayd to pay for it, for as so m a3 this can be done taxes cv.i be reduced in all directions, and in tim a you have one of the finest properties you could ever wish to possess. If you adopt that principle, and only let it bo known in England, tho credit of Victoria will be the best of any country under the sun." if Victoria had be*n blessed with a Yogel, the rule would have been, let the railways bs nude and let the interest come out of the uati mil tarns ;or new loans, so that prosperity miy rei-^n in i the coD.sfcituencie3 of ministerial supporters, and ttut logrollinj may be an essential I factor, iapolitics.