SPRINGBURN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1705, 7 November 1887, Page 2

SPRINGBURN.

(FSOM A. COBKEBrONDENT.) Oa Friday, 14th October, the Rose of Sprlngbnrn'Lodge, 1.0.G.T., celebrated their anniversary in the Sprlngbnrn School by a tea and concert. There waa a large gathering, and Bro Maynard, W.O T. presided. Bro Moßae and his good lady deserved maoh praise for the very exoellent manner in whlob they ministered to the alimentary reqairmenVs of thoee present. The walls of the room were tastefully and instructively adorned with mottoes inculcating Fidelity, Love and Friendship, and a large placard with the words " God Speed oar Temperance Cause," in painted letters of quaint design, and farther embellished with artificial ferns and paper-eat lowers, was fixed at the western end of the >ohoolroom. Bro. Sawle, of Aab barton, delivered a forcible and telling speech on the temperance question, and Bro W. G. Wallace Bpoke truly and well on the effects of example on yoaDg people, espeolally in the oaue of fathers and ohildren. He illustrated this by a short story. The ladlos and gentle* men who contributed most to the harmony of tho meeting were— Sister Harris, of the Hope of Obristohuroh Lod«e, Slater A. £nlght, of tho Bushman's PrHo Lodge, MUs Alice Price, and Bros Jam«s Price (LD.) W. G. Wallare, 1 ewis, H. Knight (jr) and M Josaeh P»»ce, the latter ifpotlernaagi vine a p*ti etioreoi atinn entitled the "Drunkard's la^t Soene." The feature of the evening was the presentation of a silver "ppot and framed Good Timphr Oenfioate to Sis»e» Robb. The gifts were singularly well chosen and appropriate. The teapot was elegant in shape sand oh<tste in design and one of which anyone might be justly proud. Bro Jamea Price, In making the preaentatlon, said that the presents themselves conveyed a faint notion of the esteem in whioh Sister Robb was held by the Lodge, of which she had been a most worthy mem er. The duties of the various offices she had filled had been discharged by her punctually and carefully. Fine weather saw her ever at her post, and in tha most anproptltious weather the Lodge was often graced by her presenoa when brother members o jectod to brave (be elements. He trusted that Sister Ross would long bs spared to drink tea out of the teapot now presented to her. H« felt certain it was a teapot that would brow good tea and he hoped that on come fatare day be (should bt regaled by a cup If Ui (roe U, Br? Pom, (n » few wtjfl

ohoaen words, returned tb*nfca la b*h»ll •>f Sister Bobs. The very enj >y«blb | /atbering terminated with the G >od T»mp]ftr ol^eing ode and a ibort prayer j ofleroJ by Mr Sawle. '