TEMPERANCE MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1245, 22 June 1880, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ME ETING AT CAMBRIDGE.

A meetixu was held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Cambridge, for the purpose of forming a Temperance Lodge. There was a fair attendance, and Mr "Brooks was unanimously voted to the chair. The Rev Mr Evans commenced with a short prayer Mr Brooks then read the advertisement convening the meeting, and dilated on thg importance of the subject for which thpy had meb. As chn&tian men it was their duty to endeavor to pull down the debasing structure of intemperance, and to fah-ly consider the best moans to acomplish ir, the necessity being fully recognised bv all rijrht thinking men. They must all work together and do their utmost, for "unity is power." The Rev. Mr Willis spoke at some length, advocating that the object of the meeting should be established on a somewhat bioad platform He expatiated on the working o f the huroh Temperance Society, of which he was a member. This ty he said recognised all sects and denominations as members, embraced the total abstainer and the temperate man, and a society based on the same principles would have his h"arty support. The Rev. Mr Evans remaiked he had been a member of a Tamper.. nee Society in Ensrlaud for 3 > ye us, and s-poke of the thousuids in some of the large towns in England biouyht to utter rum through drink. It w*b no ksa an evil in this country. He emimer ited a few distressing cit>js pu bsJicnl of late in the papers. He fully concurred in the expediency of at on c forming a Temperance .Society, which would have his greatest sympathy and support. Mr Robertshaw proposed— That ,i Tempoi.mce Sol iet\ should be formed ii C.imbiiJsji 1 . Seconded by Mr Lyon, aid carried with givit enthusiasm. Mi- Lyon aUo advocated a branch of Independent OuVv ot Uood Templars, espe.-i illy jjfemale member-hip, which he thought was very nice, and of great influence in the Lod^e. The meeting was also addressed by Mes&iv. Stewart, Sanders, Snowden, Spencer, an 1 Mori Is, wlien it was found that a divided opinion existed as to whether the society alout to be formed should be of stri< tly teetotal abstainers or be on the Church Temperance principles. The Rev. Evans propo c ed, awd Mr Lyon seconded — 'I hit .i Semen bo fui mod to be called " Ihe Cambridge lot.il Abstinent e Sonet}. Mr Saunders moved, as an amendment, seconded by the Rev. Willis — Hi it ir 1»- < .illtd "Ihe C.imbndge Temperance Sucictj. ' Tho Chairman put it to the meeting, and the motion \\\i*> cairied by 11 to 6. A prehmiiiciiy committee a\ as appointed, who will draw up a code of rules, and submit it to a future meetin«\ Tiie benediction by the Rev. Mr Willis closed the meeting-.

Atlm writes in a late number of the London World :— " There is, I understand, every reason to believe that a contract of marriage will shortly be entered into between a Piince of our Royal Hou.se, Avho'-e modesty :md learning have won for linn golden opinions, and a debutante -who wo-b umveiv-ally admitted to bear a way the palm of beauty at the last drawing room, and \\ ho is the daughter-in-law of a Scotch earl distinguished for his gallant bearing and literary attainments. "' The New York World is a great denl more explicit than its Engli&h namesake, and with the usual gusto of an American paper when dealing -with personalities, enters into the following particulars : — ' ' Another blow is about to be struck at the Koy.il Marriage Act, if we trust the rumours which reach us of the betrothal of Prince Leopold, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, to the most brilliant beauty and greatest heire,v> of the current season in London, Miss Frances Evelyn Maynard, the eldest daughter of tho late Hon. Charles; Mayuard, son and heir of the last Viscount Maynard, of Essex, who pre-deceased his father in January, 1805. Lord Maynard, a descendant of the great lawyer, died three months after his son, when hia title became extinct, and his great estate passed to his eldest granddaughter, the young lady .who is now said to be engaged to Prince Leopold. Miss Maynard has just entered her 19th year, and on her presentation at a recent drawing-room held by the Queen, she seems to have taken London by storm, not only by her extraordinary beauty, but by a grace and &tateliness which are not; always the leading characteristics of tho TsTit\&h.drbntantct>. The fashionable chroniclers went into ecstacies over the way in which she made her ' curtsey to the Queen,' an operation which is very apt to disconcert the most self-possessed of young women when it has to be performed in a robe with a sweeping train, and under the concentrated stare of a small regiment of her sister women. She is fcaid also to bo as accomplished and amiable as she is lovely and graceful, and as she comes into estates v;ilued at i' 30,000 a year, the lvnlsof which have been accumulating for her over since her grandfather's death in 1 S'J5, it raibt be admitted that Queeu Victoria might do wor«e for her only biohclorvm than lo provide him with fcuoh a biiilc.