OPENING OF THE FIRST GOOD TEMPLAR LODGE AT TE AWAMUTU.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 551, 30 November 1875, Page 2

OPENING OF THE FIRST GOOD TEMPLAR LODGE AT TE AWAMUTU.

Bro Madden, W C T, Hope of Waik ito <Lod«e, delivered a lecture on Gool Templary at the Piblic H'Ul, Te Awtmuru, on Saturday evening. Despite the incleovnoy of the weather and the bad state of the roads the Hall was fiirly filled. Mr B3rry occupied th • chair and introduced the lecturer Who was 1m ened to with breathless interest. After the lecture eighteen candidates presented them «elves for initiation. The Lodge was instituted bv Bd Hindi. S D. G W C T, a^isted by Bro Good, WVT.; Bro O'Neill. Chaplain ; Bro Foster, P WCT; Bro Knox, Sec; Bro M-idden, Grand -Marshall ; a»d Bro Henry Hind*, D M After the can lidates were initiated it was carried that the Lodge be called "Theßoieoffftf Awamutu." The foltowiag officebe irer« were elected and installed :— Bro Sloane WC T ; B-o Berry, WVT; Bro Culpan. Seoy ; Bro R Bruce, M ; Bro Stephen Bcmd, P TV C T ; Br> Whitrield. I G ; Bro Tbos Neill. O G ; Bro Fruser, R H S, Bro Hildcbrinde, L H S ; and Bro Bell. DM. Sh >rt addresses were delivered by Bros Foster and Hinds to t ie members of the new L »dge. After a hearty vote of thanks to the Brothers fr >m Hamilton the meetin terminated. " Th* Rose of Te Awamutu" promises to be one of the most flourishing Lodges in the Wiikito, and it it expected that moat of tne settlers around Te 4>warautu will join it.--C 'MMUXICated.

Tjn^HDRrHORK woelt>. — The *hnrthorn nun must surr-y be at it* zenith. After two sales like those at Dun more and Aylesby, what can come ? The delude, probably, but not a farther surpriae ! In the Ounni »re iastano^, the price* paid f >r the two bull- out of the Wetherby Duches»«« lttl and 108 (noli by Colonel G-unter to Cana<ta and brought back by Lord Ihmmorf), £4,725 for Duke of Oonnausht, and £3 150 for tbe 3rd Duk* of Hil'hur-it wene startling 'items ; #bile 1950^8 for tin cow Red R «e ot the I* es, l,2BJga for rhe two year-old heifdr Ked Rose of Bilraor*!, »nd 1.8l0g« for the two-je ir-old Msrchioneu of Osforl 3rd, vrero foreru aiers of a splendM arer- j n^e over a lot of cowt> and heifers in which not >• te lot fetched tinder £100. Here a high aTerage wm io >ked forward to.; but at Ayiesby th» ru j of prioei w«t equally »«nsational, and in addition was unrxpected At Dunmore, though all the females mnde three figures and upwards, tw > ' bulls sold for under a £100 ; but at Ayleabj neither Lull nor cow went for 1«m that tiie 4 ' cen•tury," and though the gemral average at »h« 1 itter «ale whs not quite equal to that in Scotland, the range of prices far fondles w*» quit« as antoniflhing, though not quite ai high on the whole as at I'unraore. Three rows knorkei off in immediate su. -cession at 1,000, 2160, 1.185 guineas was enough to cause a aensation in to undemoottratire a crowd o1o 1 2,000 shorthorn mer, and aeain and again iht thrill of lurpriie ran through the epeetaton »t euooeiiire spirited biddings. . - ,