GOOD TEMPLARY IN WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 579, 5 February 1876, Page 2

GOOD TEMPLARY IN WAIKATO.

A. BBIBF niSTOBY OF ITS K3TABLIHUKhNr AHD

Oh ! that men «hould put an onomy to their m cm t hi li» steal away tboir braim. — Siukbpi£ari.

ORCKXISATIOIf OT TIIE ORDI2K. It is just nbout twentj-thn c years ago m»ico th« Order of Good lompl.iry was ttnrtod m Amount, by it few energetic gpnllumen who vrero de»ir'm<j of planning nmne metliod of iceoping in oh'-rk Ilieourgo of lntemperanco. TheeU'erti of tlico henovolont g«'ntlempn uero lftueht>d at, and derided, but t'nov reinmned •und.iuntod, b!W their cauati |irogrfH«ol steadily ye (l r bj year, Bpreading from country to country, nil the present time, n-lien i< numbor« many tliousands of Lo.igeiBc»ttere.l throughout the two hemisph.-res, liaTin^' tlio sympathy and ntsiitanpoof the hi^ho»i as well ua th>> lowo-tt m the land.

IT R BACHES AUCKLAND. About four yeara ago, the U-ood Templary uiania, (if wo may so call it) sot in, in the city of Auckland, and the PIUST 1,01)0 X IN TIT I PBOVISCI was opened wi h a largo number of mon.bers, by» uaral officer belonging to tlio ' Blanche. ' Tho ferersoon spread until it at length KKtOriKD THE WAIKATO. Shortly after tin- institution of Good Temp?a>-» in Auckland, Bro 'JVemain, a «ember of tho Pioneer L-«lj;t', Auckland, visits Hamilton and deluercd iv loi-tnre ontkrt iubjec of ti>uiperano\, in the school-room. His leeturo was (• really appreciated by tlioso who were prpgont, and about 20 pertons sinned mi application for a chatter to eoUblich a Lodge in tin* township. Notwilhlanding tbiK, the effort* of liro Tremiin did not mept with the euocisi he nnticipatod. Tinoiii;h inability to Kft a room in which to bo'.tl th ir inciting-, llin iippl»c»tion for a charter was m-icr for\>«r<li'«l for tin- approval nf (h« G an I Lodgo. Although the in-titu'io 1 of a L.id^e was pre.it y desired by mat.y, nothing fuither «»» done m the matter tiil about March, 1875, when u n>i>mbor of ttio onto , Uio 0 Loiigbottom, proc-td d to town lor th- purpo eof mnkinif the nocehiarj liiquiricw lorop»nn« a [nd ir , H,, waR the Orand Lodge, that if ho got an application signed by at leiwt ton intenriinß membors, they w^uld grant a charter, an-i Sister Marj Knox to opon it. Irinnedmiely on his return, Bro Longbottom forwarded au application signed by some twenty residents in Hamilton fl»bt and VV est, to the Grand I od -c, .md a CHAUTBtt WAS QaANTim. Again the piojcc^ would have fallen through, but for the lIITDNBB3 O» CAPT HTRKLB in procuring the Independent Chap.-l, on th« Ensfern »h\o of the rirer, to 1i.,1d tnoir lodge meetings ,m. Thm gtulleinan, aUhou^t

not ft morobor of rhe Order, h .1 »ro» X »Ymp*Hmer with tli < .miu-p, .md through hi« rcprenf nation aod influrncn the Hcv Mr ])avin jtrnoted the use of the (Jliapd for montmg purpose* On prclim'niirics lioinn arrango.J, BIBTEB KNOX, v, ' • , avonn«, but esteemed meinb-r of «lie " Fntcrniil Home Lod K o," Auckhjn-1, vo'unlpcr-1 to come 10 tli.« district and open tho fir*t Lo-lgc in the Wuikdto

TOO MTCn WAIHB cannot bo gttcn to tin's admirable young lady for the porsitient and indofati^«bla manner in wliich aheendeavourcd toad vanccthecatHc aim espoused. P«w would have beon found willing to hare nnde-tnlccn bo long and tedious & jmrtify, by covh and rail, in tbc dopth of one of th« biltoreM; wintors expencnood in tiro district. 'Nothing diuntod, however, by tho difflpulhog she lial to nnrountor sinjlehanded, HiMcr Knox arnviul in Hamilton towards the b3Ruiiuw!» ol April, and on tho 16th of tU»t month opened the

MUCH LOOKEP'TOR lOBOK, umlor thf titlo of the " Hope of Wniknto." At • this time fchor« were not more lh*n )i»ll n awn , 'Good Templan in tho Waikato »n<l four of llioso •worn present htUjhoofomng of thf pi"npor Lo<ltp. Nincteon othnr per3r.nl wore untiitwl nnd T»K FIBST'LOOfrt: IV TBK WAIKATO "fairly lnunohorl. Pi-o-n that forth weekly mcotingi wore hrW and mptil pro([H'« matin. Be'fore tho first qnarfcor h>wl quite cspiro'd, '<lurnig which time Sister Knox reuimnprt in thi township <■ to atsijt (he L)djc, at her own coifc, it w«8 fotm'l •that the mumbeni from this sido of the riyer wrro

< OOKSIDERABr.Y IN THE KAJORtTV, nnd-nn wpphcition was tnndo to W N Senranrke, Etq, R \I, for tho uso of the Oourt-houso onco ft fortnight. ThU was kimlly grantod, und, to moot tho rrqniroraonts of bot.h township^ he nicotingn 'wore held every alternato Tnuriday nt Huinilton » E >it and We«t. Af tho end of the first quarter oror

POETI MWBEU woro in good standing on tho roll of tbo Lodge. It was tlion decided that tho Lolkjft »liould moot. •>s.ttlit» Court-homo owy wook (with tho kind ' pjmnnina of Mr So irnn^ko) and tho othor Mdo ■ tffCho riviT wm nbandonod for the limo bomg. (To be cono'uded in our next.)