THE GREYTOWN GOOD TEMPLAR LODGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 411, 11 March 1880, Page 2

THE GREYTOWN GOOD TEMPLAR LODGE.

The tea meeting under the auspices of the Recovery Good Templar Lodge was held at the new lodge rooms, Greytown, on Tuesday. The tea meeting was fairly "attended in the; after no on. At the meeting immediately after the RevH. Yere White was'voted to the chair, in the unavoidable absence of Mr W. C. Cuff.

" The chairman, in opening the proceedings, explained he was' a total abstainer himself and therefore had every sympathy for the movement, and after a few re- • marks, introduced Dr S. F. Beard, who kindly gave his lecture on " Temperance from a medical point of view,"and explained clearly the views held by those of the profession on the subject. The lecture was well received and -appreciated^ A vote of- thanks was proposed by Mr . Rush to Mr Beard, and a similar vote to the chairman by Mr Maokay.

The meeting then terminated, We take thia opportunity of congratulating the Recovery Lodge upon their enterprise in securing a hall for the object of furthering the interests of temperance, and hope to hear of a large increase to the number of members,

Washing-day will soon lose half its horrors, for by a recent discovery clothes may be made to nearly wash themselves. The. inventor is James Corcoran, who sends the following to a Sydney newspaper "It is little known that almost each household possesses a perfect washingmachine, viz,, a funnel, and bore say half-a-dozen holes of any size round the rim. Place it then in any vessel containing boiling water, add to the water the ordinary amount of soap and soda; then, presuming that the clothes are steeped as usual overnight, put them into an ordinary boiler, keeping it boiling, and in twenty minutes they will come out thoroughly washed. This principle is a death-blow to all patent washingmachine?, as it "is of universal application, and upsets a practice in vogue from time immemorial, It has only to .be tried'to astonish the whole world, and I am proud that the idea should start from Australia."