Xho fortnightly mooting of the Trinity Pres byterian Church Literary Society was liold on Monday night, when thoro was a largo attend ancs. A paper was read by Mr A. O. Blake on " Education, ita industrial and sociil beur ings." The essayist dealt with the great beno fits which a sound oducation confers on man kind, staling that its object was to fit boys and girls for their lifo work. Ho tbon showed how the wholo industrial eyetcm of the world had changed c|uriDg. tho last eontury, and that mnnual labour wna giving plueo to mental work, as shown m tho many uses to which machiDory was put. Education thus became tho working man's capital, by which ho could placo himself iv a poßitioo of independence, and becomo his own master. It uUo tended to level mankind and do away with Bocial distinctions. By becoming cducotod workmen gain more respocfc and inorenso the dignity of labour. In order to prove this point an extract wns read from "Looking Backward " where tho author imagines a state of society m which Jack is as gqod as his master, and whoro thoro is a uni veraal brotherhood of mankind. Under tho head of te clinical education allution wa3 made to agricultural schools, which offered to young men a splendid chanco of learning tho principles of farming. Then au opinion woo expressed that eomo goncrul principles of trades might bo taught, the toucher making himsolf acquainted with theso by visiting faelorioj, and obeorving their work. Speaking of tho cost of education m New Zenlund tho OBsayist drow attontion to tho fact that secondary schools cost tho country far inoro llmu tho primary sohools. Ho also To&d an extract from a Bpeooh given m Dunodm lately by Mr Fish, M.H.E. to show that thoro was no such thing as froo oduoation j for that all contributed m taxation to maintain tho present (>ystom, which ho Bpoko of m tbo most eulogistic torms. A Tory iniiuiiitod diocuotiontook placo m which Messrs B, Outhbcrt-, 1). M. Mockay, D. M. Brown, Ilonderflon, Wuko. Crorar and Her. J, Uiokson of Totnuka and others look part. 