Macky, the treasurer of the congrega tion, then read the following statement of accounts:

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, OTAHUHU, BUILDING ACCOUNT

Of the£s24subscnbed, £424 12s. 6d. was given by members of the congiegation, leaving a balance of £99 7s. 6d. subset ibeil by persons liaving no connec tion with the congregation , and o£ that sum — £99 7s. 6cl. subscribed by fnends, £64 15s was from pel sons of other denominations, leaving a balance of £34 12s. Gd. bubsenbed by Piesbytenati friends. Mr Thomas Adams then addiessed the meeting. He said it \\ as fashionable foi ministers now-a-days to read then seimous, he did not think therefore tli.it the meeting would object to his readiug what lie had to leraaik on the happy occasion which had bi ought them together. (Applause.) He expected it would be pietty much with him as it was with a eeitam young student of divinity, who was about to preach his trial set tnon befoie the piesbyteiy. A few days pievious to their meeting, the young man met an old minister, a member of the piesbytery, who happened to ask him if he had completed his pi eparations foi the occasion ? " O yes," he lephed, " 1 have it all cut and dry. " The old ittuustei knew veiy well that tho young man was moie famous foi self confidence than for bughtness of intellect, and he replied with a shake of the head, "As to its being cut, I know nothing at all about that, but I am veiy sure it will bo chy enough." A few yeais made a great change in a young countiy like this, and he often thought a pei son saw more leal advancement heie in two oi three years than would be seen in the old country m half a life time I£ any farmer resident in the district in which those assembled resided, had been absent dm ing the last ten yeais, he would, on now retmn ing, witness a change— if not similar m chaiacter— at least similar in extent to that witnessed by the famous Rip Van Winkle, after his long snooze among the Kaatbkill mountains. It was not veiy many yeais since their reveiend brother, Mi Biuce, intro duced the Rev. i. 