Campbelltown Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 171, 23 January 1896, Page 2

Campbelltown Notes.

[PROM OUfi OWN CORRESPONDENT. ! The Good Templars held their annual picnic at Mr Ransom's yesterday, and had a very good time, about 150 persons being present. Dinner and tea were provided, games of all sorts indulged in, and after a very enjoyable day the party adjourned to the Temperance Hall and held a very good concert. The Rev. Harper occupied the chair. The following items were very creditably rendered by members of tue Lodge and others : — Dialogue, by the Misses C. Riley, M. Ransom, L. Riley, and S. Bxoadbelt. The dialogue was a representation of a home, and the wife liking her beer, causing her to lose interest in her home and children, and so giving her husband cause to absent himself. The next item, a song by Mr Sanson, " Britannia, the pride of the ocean," being encored, ,' Ring the banjo," was given in reponse. The Rev. Keall addressed the meeting, dealing with the liquor traffic amongst the natives of South Africa, and the successful issue that the chiefs had brought Prohibition to, especially Kamar. He also read Her Majesty Queen Victoria's address to the chief. Mr Harper here called for three cheers for Her Majesty, for having so aided the cause of temperance, aud this was loudly responded to. " The song that reached my heart " was next given by Miss Mitchell very nicely. Mr Alderson recited " Patent brown stout " very creditably and, on being encored, recited "The bridal wine cup." Mr Hyde Parker's piano solo " The silvery sea " was loudly encored, and in response be played " The carnival of Venice." A duet by Misses Carter and Mitchell, " Whispering hope " was next given and ably rendered. Mr S. Knight spoke on the advance of temperance, and the strong hope he had of a Library being opened soon. Miss Carter, being called upon, sang " Afton water," and in response to an encore gave " Au Revoir," both items being exceedingly well sung. Miss Harper and Mr J. Sanson followed with the duet " Gipsy Countess," this being one of the best items of the evening. The accompaniments were played by Mrs J. Sanson, Miss Carter, and Mr Hyde Parker. A collection was taken up in aid of the fund to enlarge the hall, the formation of a library being in prospect. The sum of .£6 4s 8d was realised. The singing of the Good Templars' closing Ode brought the meeting to a close, and I feql sure that everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves.