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Show Students' Society. Tho Isles of Xew Zealand" was tho subject of a lecture very ally delivered last evening to a large and appreciative audlenco by Instructor In-structor J J. Walton, chairman of this society. The spcakir began by narrating the early discovery of the tranquil Pacific Ocean by Balboa In 1013, naming its principal i!cturttiue islands with their treasure- In Uie : South Sea; and finally thedUcovery I of New Zealand by Abjl Taamati, In 131J. But ai the natives : would not permit him to land, i nothing was really known of it until Oaptslu Cook visited It more than a century later. ThH lectu er dwelt principal! upon tho habits anJ cti5- , tomsof the abonglnesof the islands, . who, it is supposed, cams direcUy from tho Slalay race. A song was next rendered bySIIss Annie Swcnson. An organ solo ly Sir. Clare Reld was followed by a duet, sung by Slltscs Jin iePugh aud Irene Merrill. |