324 ANNUAL MEETING, 



New South Wales Statistics, History and Resources ... ] ^^^^^^^^^ll^?^ 

 ' •" ) New South Wales. 



Parish Register of St. Breward Rev. Thos. Taylor. 



6 Numbers of the Journal of the Royal Geological "i ^^^v. Sir Vyell D. 

 Society of Cornwall ) Vyvyan, Bart. 



Report on Mines and Quarries for 1899 ... Dr. C. Le Neve Foster 



In the course of his paper (printed in this number of the 

 Journal) on "Cornish Chairs, &c.," the Eev. S. Runclle referred 

 to the figure recently found in the garden of St. Sithney Vicarage, 

 and raised a doubt as to whether it represented the Trinity or not, 

 not thinking that there was sufficient space for the third person. 

 At the close of his paper, Mr. J. D. Enys pointed out there was 

 at St. Mawgan an old cross, where there was a representation 

 undoubtedly of the Blessed Trinity, and it was very similar to 

 that now shown them. In that the Holy Ghost was represented 

 above by a dove. — The Eev. W. lago : You see it on the tower of 

 St. Austell also. 



Sir Greorge J. Smith said Mrs. Ford, of Pencarrow, had 

 desired him to present to the Institution a Maori relic. In 

 forwarding it Mrs. Ford wrote stating that her great wish was 

 for Sir George to present the relic to the Royal Institution of 

 Cornwall. " It was sent to England," she added, "by Francis 

 Alexander Molesworth to his and my mother, the Dowager Lady 

 Molesworth. He was her youngest son, and in 1840 went out to 

 New Zealand, and was amongst the first pioneers to the country. 

 He was accompanied by several men from this part of Cornwall 

 (Washaway). On his arrival he immediately set to work — in fact 

 he was the one who turned the first soil in this, his adopted 

 country. In 1841 he sent to my mother the small idol which, I 

 trust, you will receive with this letter. These Talc Idols were 

 greatly valued by the chieftains of the country (even in 1841 they 

 were difficult to obtain), and were worn by them as charms round 

 their necks. A friend of mine, who has recently been in New 

 Zealand, at Wellington, told me that my specimen was much 

 finer than any he had seen in the museum there." Mr. Enys 

 said the present was a very valuable one. It was not an idol as 

 stated, but an ancestral portrait. The Maori natives were not 

 idolatrous, but they were in the habit of keeping symbolic 



