GOOD TEMPLARY.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 480, 17 June 1875, Page 2

GOOD TEMPLARY.

To the Editor^f the Waixato Times Sir, —^f^*s Surprise t^t I read your report of t\e Vo«8h Ten^plary \ea meeting, which | took place 6%. the oed instant, notrhaving seen your valuable paper before to-day. I wish you to correct a statement in your paper in reference to what I said about coming up here to open the lodges. In your paper you say I told you I had been elected by the. Grand Lodge to come to the Waikato/.ttad h^ingyaade a promise, I was compelled to r\ilfiKit>^Noprirfi^J[ said was: — That some peopleSsrou£fct it VtraVg^liat a brother did not come up \nsteacl of irie, but at the time some of our members wished a lodge opened, the brother that was to have opened it thought he would not be able to come for some time, so I promised that when the lodge was to be opened I would come and helpju. but not cqme alone ; and when I found it was liHW^tp "^fe soWe tiniertiefore it was started, I said I w&ikpcoine alo^e.\l Knew what I should have to put up witff, as I am ridT a stranger in the Waikato, that is what made me so anxious to see a lodge started here, for I had seen so much misery in Hamilton a few years ago caused by drink. If my coming up will be the means of making some homes h^s^jy tlhwilVnot me what people^ say abouti^ttaj thlk th%JMj> will discourage me they are mi3^iken^-if an^thing^b will make me the more determined to persevere for our noble order, for we have right and truth on our side and we fear nothing. What I said about woman's rights was : That I was not an advocate for woman's rights, no V"^?l^ck liP°fiL^ woman joining the Good TernVaw tgs «Dnn^cwl in any way with woman's rigaj;s, but a womanS-duty, for in many cases in the temperance cause women could do as much good as men, and I consider they have & right to do so, when they can do good. I waa ** not aware that I used any stock arguments on' Good Templary. not my intention to have spoken in publicTbuV a^S>art of the audience was going to make a disaifmnce if I had not appeared upon the platform, I submitted so as to allow the meeting to go on quietly. The only stock argu-

* Sip 8 1 renaember using were to Mr Holloway. Atter the meeting was over, I asked him what there was in Good Templarism that he did not like ? He said he did not like it in a political point of view ; he did not thiuk we were going the right way to put down the liquor traffic. I asked him to tell us a better way, but he could not do so. As regards the provisions, it was not oiic^fauk tlkfc they jrere not better, as we ordered theNeS^ bat S^Nablt may have been caused in haste^-rE^nserting tfits you will oblige, — Yours, &c. \ „ , M. Knox. Hamilton, 13th June. [We have no desire to be ungallant, but we wish any young lady who sends a letter to us in future would have the goodness to write on one side of the paper only. Miss Knox will probably excuse the present- editor of the Times if he declines to be the heir to a legacy of complaints such as hers. We have no doubt whateverTCfe^tfßurXir corrfcepondent is actuated by the veV ofest of^io^vSc-and we advise her to bear herArron^^hilQsophiraUy,, W.T.] \^