PUBLIC TEMPERANCE MEETING AT BLACKS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1067, 6 October 1882, Page 3

PUBLIC TEMPERANCE MEETING AT BLACKS.

[Tlie following was received too late for insertion in last week’s issue.] At the meeting of Go al Templars held in 1 he school room, Ophir, on Momlay evening, ] '■■ he 25 !) 'i)r.. sped illy to confer thr Gran 1 j Ln Ice Decree on eligible members of the 1 Onler, 21 np;> icants from the meal ami snrrmimling Indgcn prestuteil their ore entials I an I wee duly installed members of the! Gram! Lodge, I O.G T., New Zeabiml Boti hj. ! The threatening aspect o r the weather ami i the iliizzlin: rain which began to fall about | live o'clock ant c -ntiimed for two hours 1 prevented some at a distance from putting I in n appearance j At the open meeting wh'ch followed there j was no large attendance of non-members, i partly on account of it not being properly aiders on ! that the meeting was open for all. S me a ngs, leadings, an I recitations were intersperse I between, before, ami a ter the a Idro-ses ct B n. Unt ie and Came ion which were the principle attraction, I need not m..ke any re ume of these address, s as that wid likely bo done by soon-one commenting, no her i!ue'iii\.s held m the dis roict One point in Mr 0 ame-on's abbess Somewlia forcibly struck me : Speaking on the prosperty of the Order he said it had ■ren eight years in existence, that, they had initiated diming t ; a'.time ab nt4o (>OO members, and that 'heir p esent strength was about SIKH). I r - is the position of t : ds 32 (IPO .who have dr ppnl out of the ranks which cills for special remark and which shonbi c aim the earnest attention of every member of the Ord. r. Every one of these, before they were a knitted into the rank", had to come under a most solemn blua.'ion himl tdieins Ives to adhere to the principles of the Or ler for life. Thee is no nth ir way '•pen for them to join but by doing so. Sunpose we alo a i ere ntage of these who still hold to the orinciples, though not cmiieo ed wi hj the order, a d a "mall percemae have gme ilie way of all living R wince the 8050 by *h.* const ieralde percentage that do exist of what I call sly-grog Goo I Templars —tln.se who ke.-p their names good on tl e Imoks but s< oretly in lulge when a favourable npportiini y offers—add these to tl e balance left of the 32.0 0 af er taking off the percentages name', and there will be B ill a i astounding number left—and what is their nest'i ." ?