SATURDAY NIGHT TEMPERANCE MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1678, 5 July 1875, Page 4

SATURDAY NIGHT TEMPERANCE MEETING.

The Saturday evening entertainments in connection with Templary are increasing in numbers and literary value. On Saturday last the large room was full. Mr H. Waite occupied the chair, and Mr Turner, of California, occupied the chief part of the evening with an address of more than an hour on the Templary movement in America. The speech was listened to with great attention, and was replete with interest, to Good Templars especially. Mr. Turner was a witness of the scenes he described with so much native humour, and his happy way of telling them, with the " gentle reminder," was highly effective. His sketches of the " ladies' whiskey war," were at times extremely pathetic, and his tribute to those noble women who risked their lives among the " whiskey mills," was truly eloquent. The rest of the evening was devoted to songs and readings. Mr. Hyde sang the " Star of Glengarry," in first-rate style; and Mr. Marson gaye —" Let us speak of a man as we find him," in a like finished manner. Master Servett. a young man of fair complexion, gave a recitation—■" The Woman of Mind " (but, unfortunately, it was given in so low a tone that its humour was lost to the majority of the audience), Miss Coleman Bang " Kathleen Mavourneen" very sweetly and received a well merited encore. This young lady possesses a magnificent voice, combining melody and power; Mr Andrew read a paper on—"Conjugal Love." The meeting was very harmonious throughout, and, from Mr Waite's remarks, we learn that these meetings will be continued every Saturday, in order to counteract the evils of the publichouse. , :