THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE SOIEEE.

Southland Times, Issue 1607, 19 July 1872, Page 3

THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE SOIEEE.

The annual re-union of the Daughters of Temperance was held on Wednesday evening last, in the Exchange Buildings, when the Sons and Daughters of the i Temperance order assembled in full fence j to do honor to the occasion, and it is ; but " small justice" to say they were j eminently successful. A more thoroughly pleasing and truly enjoyable evening has never been associated with festive gathering in Invercargill, and the character of our social demonstrations being already established as of an order not ersily to be j surpassed, it may be safely inferred that | if there were any one present who was , not well pleased, it must have been owing to the presence in that single instance of an unusual amount — and that of a most iuveterate kind— of the misanthropic element. Of course ; there was " tea," (for how couM a de- ] monstration of this bind be carried out , without?) and th-s, being provided and ; arranged by the ladies of the order, was , — both as to male.iisl and arrangement— I without flaw or break-down in any of its [ details. About two hundred visitors sat down, and, after clearance ofthe tables, Mr William Fraser was called to the chair, and the report of the year was read by the Secretary. Tbe success of the order, reckoned by accession of numbers, has not been great duriog the year, and our good friends the ladies will have to rely for encouragement upon the effect of their influence in steadily and persis- j tently promoting the principles of true j temperance ; and tbis will, after all, be ■ the way in which their success is most j certain to be realized. Mr Twinning pre- | sided at the piano, having as his i coadjutors the band of lady and gentlemen amateurs, with whose names and voices the Tnvercargill public is so pleasantly familiar, and a veiy long j and choice programme was effectively got through. A feature in the evening was the performance on the piano of a trio by Mr Twinning and two of his junior pupils, which was well received by the audience. | The band of lady amateurs received an accession in the person of a young lady whom we and all present hope to meet again on many similar occasions. This lady, in a duet with Mr John Kingsland, ■ received the most enthusiastic approval. | Addresses were delivered by the TRev. Mr | Stobo, and Messrs Eussell (Byal Bush), \ and Burns. These were very wisely limited by the chairman to fifteen minutes each, as with the volume of music and song open before them, the audience was evidently not much disposed to listen to practical dissertations. Two readings from 1 Tennyson were given, and the programme was thus sufficiently diversified to prevent either staleness or weariness. The gathering was dispersed about half-past 10 o'clock, the National Authem closing the proceedings.