WESLEYAN TEA MEETING AND LECTURE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2125, 21 June 1883, Page 2

WESLEYAN TEA MEETING AND LECTURE.

The Wesleyan tea meeting, held at the Masonic Hall yesterday evening, in aid of the newly-erected Parsonage, was in all respects a great success, and, so far as we could judge, there could not have been less than 300 persons seated at the tables. The tables were tastefully arranged and liberally provisioned, and it is almost needless to say that ample justice was done to the eatables by those who were present. The following ladies had charge of the tables : Mesdames Hoeking, Keecb, Matson, Williams, and Harris, and the . Misses Hosking, Duff, Powley, Helms, Waters, Pollard, and Galland ; Misses Duff and Galland being in charge of the bachelors’ table. Tho tea meeting was followed by a lecture from the Rev. R. S. Bunn, of Greymouth, on “ The Backwoods of America.” The lecture was both instructive and humourous, and strikingly illustrative of the mode of life in the Backwoods in its early history. The chair was occupied by his Worship the Mayor (W. Barnett, Esq,), and several musical selections were rendered by the choir. In addition to the amount raised by the sale of tickets for the tea and lecture, £4 2s 6d was taken at the door for admission to the lecture only, so that it is needless to say the Hall was well filled, even “ tropical,” as the reverend lecturer humourously remarked. The entire proceeds can not be known till a few days have passed, but young men about to seek the services of the Wesleyan Minister to perform the auspicious duty of uniting them in the bonds of holy matrimony were advised by the Rev. Mr Bunn to make a good broad pathway up to the Parsonage, where at present there was no path, but only a danger of breaking their necks in the attempt to, reach their pastor’s new abode. Votes of thanks to the ladies, the choir, the lecturer, and the chairman terminated the proceedings.