Remarkable Convention.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 3, 3 July 1895, Page 2

Remarkable Convention.

The two hundred lady temperance advocates, chiefly Americans, who, according to a cable message of last week, addressed London congregations last Sunday afternoon, are (says the Christchurch Press) delegates to a remarkable Convention, now being held in London, of members of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union. It is remarkable for being probably the most representa tive gathering of women that has ever been held Among those present are members of the Women's Christian Temperance Unions from Australasia, Japan, South Africa, North and South America, and many other countries. The meetings began last Friday, and were to culminate in a great demonstration on Wednesday in the Queen's Hall, and on Thursday in the huge Albert Hall. The speakers at the Noncouafomist churches on Sunday last were to include several from Australia, including Miss Jessie Ackerman. who, it will be remembered, visited New Zealand some years ago on a lecturing tour. It may be mentioned that the delegates from America are so numerous that a special ship was chartered to convey them to England. All this, and much more, was told to a recent interviewer by the well-known woman reformer, Miss Willard, President of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union, who is leader of the Convention.