PRIMITIVE METHODIST SOIREE.
The Primitive Methodist Society and their friends held, according to announcement, their soiree in the Exchange Hall on "Wednesday evening last. The room was well filled, and somewhere about two hundred persons sat down to tea, which, according to the usual style of the ladies of Invercargill, was — as to material and abundance — all that could be desired. The hall, excepting in the profusion of flowers with which the tables were decorated, was without the customary festooning and evergreen garniture, which, considering the extreme heat of the weather, was an advantage, as affording a more perfect ventilation. It had been advertised that Mr T. M. Macdonald would preside, but being unwell he was unable to do so, and by an unfortunate series of" hitches," others (both ministers and laymen) whose presence had been looked for, were also absent. The addresses, and in fact the whole programme, under these circumstances may be said to bare been extemporised. Mr Thomas Perkins was called to the chair, and Messrs C. Gibson and G. Froggatt, as local representatives of the body, brought forward the object of the meeting, the erection of a church, and urged its necessity. Mr S. Deck gave an excellent address on the subjects of Christian union and co-operation. The Rev. J. M. Thomson, in a truly catholic speech, extended the right hand of fellowship to the newly- organised body, and the Bev. B. J. Westbrook, the minister of the church, gave varied information as to the operations of the Primitive Methodist connexion at home. The whole meeting was thoroughly animating, a few hymns, led by ihe harmonium, being well aung during the evening by the audience. The meeting concluded at about half-past ten o'clock.
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Southland Times, Issue 1666, 22 November 1872, Page 2
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287PRIMITIVE METHODIST SOIREE. Southland Times, Issue 1666, 22 November 1872, Page 2
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