GOOD TEMPLARISM IN NEW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1698, 28 July 1875, Page 3

GOOD TEMPLARISM IN NEW ZEALAND.

rFrom the Temperance Star, London, Oct Bth, L 1874.]

IS IT TRUE? To the Editor of the Tempbbancb Star. Sir —Can you permit the enclosed queries to appear in your next issue ? Is it true--1 That Bro. Mackune, late of G. L office, Birmingham, has travelled many thousands of miles for the establishment of the I-O.G.T. £ New Zealand and instituted many lodges ? 2 That he left England forthat dxstant colony commissioned by the R.W.G-.T. asxts fir 3tDTha^Se(R r W.G.C. not only allowed thename of Bro. Mackune to be passed over in bTgL session held at Boston but permitted another brother'B name to appear as hf r^v.-Westbrook, Weslevan minister commissioned many months after B?o Mackune entered the colony, has never slept beyond the bounds of the circuit SESbHo him by hi* church and has m truth opened but very few lodges indeed ? truth open ess havre recognised t* AVflr asain the devoted and earnest Sts of Bro! Sckune-viz., that of Invercarill, Dunedin, Wellington and other places in 6 theThK avoid any unpleasant disclo4^khVw% wS re anot p; e hyeta jfS |o t acVordance to his right and expectation^ l? WGO Joseph Malms, in the above as B R a n^i?o?his comprehension of the meaning of the word justice ?

. I shall bd glad to sed Answers to the above in your next issue, when they thaU be followed by others of great iiitefe&fc to oui Otdcr. A BKOTH£R AN!' I.OVRR OF JUSMCE. [We may have to refer to thh matter in a subsequent issue, very voluminous correspondence having reached us r.s we go to press irora New Zealand. -Ed Temp. Star. ['The Temperance Slav, November 5, lS?4] We have perused carefully the Journal of Proceedings of the twentieth annual session of the Right Woithy Grand Lodge held ii-j Boston, Mass., last May; and wo haife partieitlarly noticed the P. W. G. Templars Hastings' report on New Zealand. E. W. G. L. Journal, Page l!j. According to it JN'cw Zealand is recommended to have St.least 3 or 4 brand Lodges ; in the Southern island, 2 ; and in the Northern Island, 2. The places named lor ihfesfe a*e Auckland, in the extreme noith ; Wellington, in iba middle ; at Christchurch and at Invercargill, or Bunedia, in the south. What we are surprised at is that such a division with something less than 150 lodges should bo made, more especially when we rfemfentber that England with over 3,000 lodges must have only one ! . Page 31, B, W.G.L. Jetirnsl.-#b.e report states that a charter for a Grand Lodge was sent .to Bro. Rev. B. Westbrooke, D.D., and the B.W.G. Secretary in his report follows it up by saying—"Bro. Wtstbrcoke is con tinually at work : travelling, lecturing, and organising lodges ; and we may safely say that they now number 120 ledges, and at least 6,000 members " He also says—"On the same day I mailed a Grand Lodge charter 16 Rev. B. Wtstbrooke, D.D.E.W.G.T., InvercargUl, Now' find a Grand Loige was organised in February laat, with about SO subordinate lodges " Kow Me happen to Lave sent us by Mr. William Mackune, the legally and constitutionally appointed D.D.R.W.G.T. for New Zealand, a tile of New Zealand papers and several letters, together with a photographed copy of X's D.D.'s commission, dated November 11th, 1872; and how in the face of all these R.W. G.O. Huntings could allow the chaiter to be sent to lie Uev. B. Weitbrooka we really cannot understand. Take in the firs'; place the commis-i<>n given to, Bro. Mrckune, and signed by P.R.W.G.T. fctfsflfell and. .V.It.W.G. Sec. JuLus A. Spencer, on the date jibova named. We have a photograph of the above document before us, so can make no mistake. Then let uj remember what nine or teD, out of many others, of the New Zealand paperasay about Mr. Mackune, ItD'fi.W.G.T. while the name of the Rev. B Westbrooko dots not appear in ono of them, and our astonishment is increased, yet he is the man the 11.W.G.L. hr.nturs as though he had done the woik. "Honour to whom honouris due " has been and is our motto, but it doss not appear to be that of R.W.G.C.T, Hastings, or of the present' R.W.G.C. Malms, who knew the circumstances but did not interfere. We a&k v here would he be now had he received from the powers that be or rather tbat were, i\hcn at the institution of the Grand Lodge of England he was nominated and elected the Chief of the Order in England, the same treatment he h-is lately seen meted out to our biother Mackune in Now Zea'and? And what can be thought of the Wesleyan minister who allows himself to, not only be honoured with a false title, but accepts it willingly, and allows it to be published to the world as the reward due to him for labours he never performed? The thing is on a par with the division of the country into sections or territories so that New Zealand may have with its handful of lodges what the brethren have asked fur and could not get in the mother country, whore they can count their lodges by thousands. Alas ! for the laiity of Christian —ayo, or Good Templar charity either, even from the leaders of the 1.0. G.T., when we find them at the promptings of one who himself sprung up like William Mackune from the working claes into notoriety through the aid and assistance given him by many now all but forgotten by him ; and who now as R. W.G.U. can advise the publication cf a book on several pages of which the lie direct is given to that which is patent to every Good Tcmwho knows anything of the Order in the far distant colon\? of New Zealand. We shall next week give Mr. Mackune's own version of the whole matter, showing clearly tbat the Order yonder is anything but a peaceful and happy family. What, for pity' 3 sake, has become of our glorious motto—Faith, Hope, £and Charity? But where is the higher and nobler, if we may so say, one of Justice to all, but more especially to a Good Templar brother ?