MOUNT SOMERS BAND OF HOPE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1558, 14 May 1887, Page 2

MOUNT SOMERS BAND OF HOPE.

TO THE EDITOB. Fir, — In looking through your paper of the 12th insta-it, I observed an i^om beaded "Mount Somera Gj3L:p." Who the author of this valuable contribution may be» Is beßfc known to yourself, but if he would take the trouble to a^certa^ whether the statements he sends are true, before sending them, it would perhai3 eave some trouble. For iratance ho Bfatcs8 f ates that " the Mount SomeiV Band of Hope have announced a concert for Miy 20Lh, when only non-teeto^llora are to f%y for adm'ssion." A mora rld'culouß abatement than thh can scjrcjly be inngined, as, In Ihe fiiafc pice, there has been no " announcement " of a "c )ncoPl" for that date, or any other ; andaecondlj, at the Committee meeting, n-'.er ih^ legular meeting of tha Society the other night, when the question of a spec'il meeting was dho« sed and adjourned to a further meeting, no one ss'd who was to be ohrrg-d and who not. It was not evon decided whether anyone would be oharged for admission . The little Society has been carried on, s> fr-, without any appeal to ihe public for ther auperfluoua caßb, having b_>en aapplied with fuac>B by a few who have the cause of temoeranoe at heart, and w'-h to see their children educated In its r rJuciples, so that when they become voters tiny ffJI I übo their iofluenca to suppress the traffic whioh his gnawed at; the vitals, and corruptel the life-blood, of the fairest, ablest, and pure.t on earth, I am, etc., One of the Commixtkßi