TINWALD GOSPEL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2244, 4 October 1889, Page 2

TINWALD GOSPEL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.

The closing meeting of the above Society and Band of Hope was held In the Templar Hall on Tuesday evening. The meeting was well patronised by a goodly oorapsny evidently expecting a treat, and they were not disappointed The Rev A. Blake took the chair, and after Mr Sawle's opening prayer, made some appropriate remarks. J^eoitations by quits a large number of young people^ from seven to fifteen years of age, were admirably given. At intervals songs from Hoylo were sung by all, while others were sung by some of the children alone, and their voices blended very sweetly together. Four dialogues given during the evening by the members of the Band of Hope proved very interesting ; another given by three members of the Flemington Society, pourtraying one secret of a happy home, was of unusual merit and not only amused and delighted, but Instructed, "The farmer's Glee" by Messrs 4>unn, Osborne, and Dakar* took so well tha,t It had to be repeated, and the la,st named friend sang m his usual pleasing way •• Do they mlas me at home." 1 Exoellent and telling addreises on the merits and and. progress of the Temperance oiuse were delivered by Meaa,rs Sawle and Watklns^ During an Interval refreshments, were handed round In variety a.od nbundaaoe by mai;y willing helpers, and just before bhe usual vote of thanks Mr Iffehariy read a valedjofrory address to Mr Walt, who la leaylng th,o district, Teoogn.lslng the valoe of his lervlpes. Mr Wa.lte, after suitably replying, moved a vote of thanks to ttmse who bad taken part, and especially to tbe Flemlngton friends. He also called for a tpeolal voe of thanks to Mfss Blake, who h»d presided at iho harmonium, and who had taken auoh pains In preparlug tho young people who bad acquitted tbomselVQß so well In soug and dialogae. These were oarrled by acclamation, and, after a yote pf tban^s to tho VhnlrtmD, one of the most $?sfffffc\S meeting^ evei" { held In -Tlnwald wijij p'ot?ght to a oloae. I