S. ANDREW'S, CAMBRIDGE. Annual Meeting of Parishioners.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2115, 28 January 1886, Page 2

S. ANDREW'S, CAMBRIDGE. Annual Meeting of Parishioners.

Tiie annual meeting of the parishioners of S. Andrew's, Cambridge, took place on Tuesday evening in the schoolroom. There was a fair attendance. The Venerable Archdeacon Willis was in the chair. The meeting opened with prayer. The report and balance-sheet (at published in Tuesday's issue), were read. The Chairman read a full statement of the Sunday-school receipts and expenditure, and also details of the expenditure for sundries, in preparing which he had received great assistance from Mr Hill. Mr Dyer moved a vote of thanks to the | Sunday-school teachers, whose work was greatly to be commended, and though unostentatious, it was second to none in importance. He deprecated the lukewarmneas of people ill not giving them better assistance. Mr Wells seconded the motion, and said he considered no branch of Church work required so much care. He particularly referred to Mr Stewart, who had sacrificed his leisure to devote himself to the Sunday-school. Archdeacon Willis spoke of the importance of Sunday-school work, which did not receive thnt primary place in the attention of the people which it should. Religious education of the young was being sadly neglected, and lie thought the moral outlook of the future generation a very serious one. The motion was carried by acclamation. j Mr Stewart returned thanks and expressed his gratification for the vote accorded him. In Mr Sanders he had a most valuable helper. He thought there should be a better average attendance, which was between GO and 80, instead of about 120, and he felt disappointed he did not receive the assistance he had expected. Mr Sanders moved a vote of thanks to the lay-readers, the choir, ringers, and to Mr Moore, for his late services in the choir. This was seconded by Mr Boyce and carried. The report and balaucc-sheets were then adopted as a whole. Mr P. Hicks moved that the incumbent's stipend be £2SO, as last year. He would like to propose an increase, but lie knew there was a difficulty under the present depression. Mr E. Hewitt seconded, and suggested that £10 a year be added if found possible to do so. The cutting off of Matamata from the district would be a loss. Motion as amended was carried. Mr Wells moved that the Vestry's recommendation that tho Annual Social Gathering be held in May in place of in Aiitrust be adopted, Mr H. Cowper secouded, and tho motion was carried. MrE. Hewitt was appointed Clergyman's Churchwarden, and Mr Chambers People's Churchwarden for the ensuing year. The following gentlemen were elected by ballot as Vestrymcu :— Messrs Wells, Stewart, Major Wilson, Messrs Dyer, Sanders, Hunt, Hicks, Cowper and Hill. Messrs J. W. Merrick and T. B. Lewis were appointed auditors. Mr Hicks moved a hearty vote of thanks to Mr Wells for the willing and able manner in which he had represented the district in the Synod for some years past. Mr Dickinson seconded, and the motion was carried by acclamation. Mr Wellß expressed his warm appreciation, and said he had done his work from love and that he had felt great benefit personally whenever he had retvrned from his duties. Friday, 19th February, was fixed as the date for the Harvest Festival. The meeting then closed with prayer.

List of visitors to Te Aroha. — Mr and Mrs Harrison, Mr Gladstone, Mr Scott, Mr and Mrs Tanheld, Miss B. Dickey, Mr Campbell, Inspector Thomson, Mrs Cohronn and daughter, Mr Airing, Mr and Mrs Nolan, Mr Knight, Mr Lauig&n, Mr Metcalf, Mr aud Mrs 8011, Mr W. Swanson, Mrs Greeson, Mrs Ruck, Miss Hall, Mrs Porter, Mr Ryan, Mr Thomas, Mr Bucklmy, Major Downes, Mr Marley, Major Gen. Dwyer, Mr and Mrs Pool, Mr OBrien, Mrs McMurray and 2 children, Rev. Mr and Mrs Knowling, Auckland ; Mr and Mrs Maxwell, Wellington ; Mr and Mr* Stewart, Mrs Peel, Mr Kenrick, R.M., Mr and Mrs Wilkinson, Mr KirkPatrick, Mr Grigg, Thames ; Mr Sutter, spn., Mr Sutter, jun., Mr Wood, Mr Hume, jun., Waikato ; Mrs Walpole, Mrs Ash well, Miss Woodhouse, Mr and Mrs Jagger, nurse, and 5 children, Mrs Edwards, Misses Edwards (2), Auckland ; Mm Norman, Onehuuga ; Miss Glover; Miss Hickson, England ; Mr Pope, Mr Ferguson, Mr Campbell, Mr O'Shea, Mr Breen, Mr Gallagher, Mrs A. Taylor, Mrs Whitcorae, Mre J. Taylor, Thames; Mr Clarke, Gisborne; Mr and Mrs Smart, Levuka; Mrs J. and G. Laughton, London ; Mr Scoular, Dunedin ; Mr H. J. Baker, Oamara ; Mr T. G. Sandes, Mr A. E. Lewis, Hamilton, Mr P. Carr, Waikato, etc. Tenders are invited for cleaning the borough drains, Hamilton. Mr T- S. Burkland advertises the sale by auction on Saturday next, of tbc goodwill of section 20, Cambridge Domain Lands. Duties will be resumed at Mrs Glover's boarding anil day school, Gleniide, Syraonds-strect, Auckland, on the 2nd February. In another column Mr Stephen Tucker, grocer, fruiterer, &c, Hamilton, makes a very important business announcement, which housekeepers would do well to peruse.