RED HILL CHURCH SOIREE.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 192, 7 April 1893, Page 2

RED HILL CHURCH SOIREE.

Good Friday was the day chosen by the Wesleyans of the Redhill district for the annual soiree in connection with their church. The weather and the moon were as beautiful as they could te aud in consequence the attendance was very large. The little church had been very carefully and tastily decorated and when the two tables were laid out and the people sat around them the scene was a very pretty one. The Rev. Joseph Blight was present and asked the people to sing grace, after which the reverend gentleman expressed a hope that they would not mix up the tea as they had the grace. The tables were twice filled; between eighty and a hundred persons partook of the good things. The tables were presided over by’ two Misses Dickson, and two Misses Dickens. Tea being over and the tables cleared Mr FT. Mo Leod took the chair and the church was filled inside and all round outside. The Chairman made but few remarks, caking up the supposition that as the people had come a long distance and had a long distance to return they did not wish him to detain them, and nb report was read. Amongst other items of the programme provided were recitations by Rev. J. Blight; songs by Mr J. Buchanan Jr., ‘ The Great Amen,’ and ‘TheFisherman and his Child ’ ; bv Mr Higgott, ‘ A Soldier and a Man,’ and another; one by’ Mr Buchanan Senr. ; by Miss S. Dickens, ‘ Let the Angels in, Mother ’; by Mr R. Leonard, ‘ A Genteel Man’; Duett by two Misses Dickens, ‘ Strike ! strike ’; and ‘ The Ship That Never Returned,’ by a gentleman whose name we do not know. The proceedings were brought to a close by the benediction.