Good Templar Anniversary.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3168, 15 April 1879, Page 3

Good Templar Anniversary.

A large number of persons attended last efening at the Templar Hall, oh the occasion rof the celebration, of the anniversary of Good jTemplary on the Thames. The tea seemed to be enjoyed |J by all who partook of it, and after tea a! programme was conimenqed, 8r0.._ I). SootttakinK the ohair.—The first item on iliS programme was overture 1 by Mr El A. E. owe 4on the pianoforte, which: wag. very acceptably per formed.—The Chairman said they had met to celebrate j the^sixth ahhiversa^y of Good Templary. j tJnjike other societies, the Good Templars $ere!feande^i ( tdgethor; to, benefit others— not themselves. He' would not detain themr, but begin the programme, and caVle4uponMr J. Cocks, junr., to sing V;The; Pilot," which took fairly.—Mr James Jones then addressed the meeting. Hesaid that he had been privileged to addrrss an aud'once on a sitrilar occasion two-yehrs ago, and then he had spoken on t^ftubject of "stock-taking," and he thoußht it was a very; proper occasion to do'sb". :rHehad'the honor of having been the first Chief Templar, and remembered initiating "as many as 39 on one night, and there v were, large number's of propositions fe^ify^meeting 1, arid' all Ihis wrs,; fee supposed, owing to its novelty. Seeing the thousands of pounds spent annually in the trs^^|^fiisE^wr: t worse than thrown ,|wjy!fcFbr*if it Were-^ufr into the sea itjron]W| nolriilo;harm), ii was, time thej»jidj,iibii|aineaiv\ HeaVerred that the expanse of the outcome of drunkenness to the Government was as much or more than whatlhey derived from the iraffic. He contended that people were culp»ble for wantS?? 1?; ®P«rtd not realise that ihifii elperise-df dfinkjn Great Britain Irould maintainlo,oo6,ooo neople, and Judge CJoleridge had recently said that nino^enihs of the crime i committed was the resist pf drink. Eeference was made toih^ilaiPiinMiM' thelThames, Jbut^the spelkeElaidv{the;pubU"o hqu^ thnv6 none the less;;, Mr Jones address cott was pleasingly given, after which Mr Merchant recited" Kbllb's address to the PetjWj«i|. ajMtiJ^jGriiHiltonTsang " Tjhe^jprr^sli;.JC*ipn," and met with aloud encore K to which he responded, and again plelsedVl thr atidience;-^ Mr J. Npdder gas£t"s? i^iojMi itddjpess^^saying ;ihey had beenipairtakingi of the cup which cheerß bufj^^flpfel^tp^ip.afeJ-,. Speaking :p'f temperance jn ; 'drinking,'- h© i Jisaid i; Dr Johnson^ would not .give a definition of tbo word. He urged all to become total a bitainers-^-Miss Peace (of Sir" Henry Havttlook'Xodge^ LOiGiT;; Auckland) sanifi^lKy; ;ftw|e I: never see," capitally; and leßponded to an encore. A reading by^^^o^:'Scptfc:follow,ed, the tbxt .pf proved diyerting. , Mr Meachem sang " The OiUa'otff °of Englftnd," and Miss C]e*wi"«n r old'favorite of Templa? iudie^ilS^^o^e:^J:^P^e. ;thee!. jßtijl," 'in an excelieiit manner, though suffering from a crdp^,ifi-r^s^ra^';ip:';^\;jjni»w, "0 givemolfrecdcm ever," was substituted, A <*Qe*i •' The Minute Gun at Sea," followed, in which Miss Chillcott and Mr Cocks, Jun,.,^acquitted themselves: credit* abl^^i^,S^;S>nitb:;Bang "The Vacant Chair;" which concluded the pjrograiimiej r^and; the room was. cleared for the^puiposeofallowing the young people to enjoy themselves for an hour, which thef W Mng^ by playing French Tig, Jolly Miller, and other innocent gam«j «d}th.e meeting broke up at a^jeasonable.hpur...,A' word is due to M^JBrfiAit "jko'-Qmni,;. who. gave 'every; latrtfactibn in flaying the accompaniments^ duritiXivhfi evening, which conduced to the' succesrof the anniversary.r , ; !