DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2812, 18 February 1878, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

This day.

A temperance procession was held yesterday under the auspices of the Boy. Father Henneberry and the Roman Catholic clergy of Dunedin. All those who took part in the procession were the persons who, during Mr Henneberry's mission here, h&vo taken the pledge of lifeloug abstinence from intoxicating liquors. The total number was about 1500. Bishop Moran addressed the assemblage from the terrace above his residence. There was a large crowd gathered, probably 30CO people. Each of the processionists wore a green sash and a temperance medal. Father Henneberry explained that the green color was chosen, not to be understood as giving the procession anything of a political or even distinctive character; be simply chose green because he liked it. The streets along which the procession went were lined with onlookers, and at street corners there were large gatherings. A statement made by Father Henneberry, that there were four million cases of infauticide yearly in the United States, and endorsed by Bishop Moran with the addition of an extra million, excited much comment here, and it is regarded as a most ex* traordinary hallucination.

Mr Geo. McLean received a unanimous vote of confidence after the address to his constituents at Flag Swamp on Friday night, and at Merton on Saturday night a similar vote was carried unanimously.