Mr E. Tennyson Smith, "The Second Gough"

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 73, 8 December 1892, Page 2

Mr E. Tennyson Smith, "The Second Gough"

;•. » Mr E, Tennyson Smith, the celebrated English temperance orator, will pay his long- looked for visit to Feilding on Sunday next, and we have pleasure in giving our readers some particular* of the career and work of the * Second Gough.' The lecturer is one of the most eloquent and successful speakers of the present day, and his re delivery of Gough's orations is described by the British press as perfect. Many eminent men in the Old Country have testified to his great ability and the valuable character v .of historic including the Earl of Carlisle, the late Rev C. H. Spurgeon. Joseph Makns, G.C.T. and. many others. Mr Tennyson Smith's fame as an orator preceded him to these fair lands, and the Colonial press is uaammouß in testifjing to" his extraordinary success in the colonies. The •Illustrated Sydney News' says :-" Almost invariably Mr Smith has had crowded houses and has every where been > greeted with the utmost enthusiasm, receptions, social teas, picnics, farewells, etc., being given in honor of himself and wife all along the line." In Sydney after his series of recitals, an engagement was at once made to secure his services | for another series of twenty recitalst lln Adelaide after lecturing for nearly six weeks in the city and suburbs, at his last Gough recital, 3,800 tickets had been applied for by noon of the daV previous to the meeting. In Auckland, eight, after night, hundreds were turned away; In Dunedin and Christchurch immense audiences gathered night after night, and recently in Wellington; on four occasions the Opera House was paoked and $ram* bers turned away ; while in the smaller townships the difficulty has been in many instances to find halls largje enough to accommodate the crowds which have flocked to hear him. Mr E; Tennyson Smith accompanied by his wife r arrived in, Feildinp this morning, and will meet the temperance friends and workers of his forthcoming mission this evening, at the Primitive Methodist Church, at 8 p'clock.