TEMPERANCE ENTERTAINNENT AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1398, 18 June 1881, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ENTERTAINNENT AT CAMBRIDGE.

. iF.we are to take the crowded audience Vhlch was present at the entertainment given by the Good Templets of Cambridge in., the local School-room on Thursday night last, as a criterion of the progress of temperance in that neighbourhood, it must be doing "well. The cause it would appear is making rapid and satisfactory progress, the member sheet having been considerably augmented of, late. So much faith have the officers in the stability and atendy advancement of their institution and the causo they ad. vocate that they have determined to hold their social gatherings periodically. The admission being freeand the programinfi very alluring, the largo School-room was completely over-crowded with adults and youngsters, who manifested their marked approval of the various Bongs, readings, and choruses, with hearty applause. The president of the society the Rev. Mr. Evans opened the entertainment with a most instructive and impressive address and this was followed by Mrs Rea singing "Oh, Touch Those Cords ;" a song which was delivered to the audience in an easy and charming manner, and which met with the leception it so well merited. Then Mr Morns enlightened his hearers on "Temperance Statistics," by reading an article from the London Times, the subject of which was sufficient to operate as an inducement to all apostles of the Temperance cause in furtherance of their object — the suppression of the liquor traffic. The choir then gave the audience "Cold Water," which they accepted with marked appreciation, after which they had "Two Glasses" given them by JMiso N. Morris, a contribution full of sentiment, for which she was duly rewarded, and this was followed by " The Effects of Temperance" by a number of the society, which had a very impressive effect on those pi esent. "To Do Something" was then given by the choir, and was one of the most charming contributions of the evening. Recitations were then given by Master Thomas Mynott and Miss Emily Mynott : the latter giving "The Old Cottage Clock, " which was well received. The entertainment having come to a close, the President, the Rev. Mr Evans, delivered a few congratulatory on the development of the Society, exhorting those who had not as yet enrolled themselves to become members without further hesitation, relating the good accruing therefrom ; a good which lie hoped they would all take due advantage of by following the example set them by others of the Temperance cause. The next meeting, he said, would be on the 7th of July, when he hoped to see a house equally crowded as it was that night The National Anthem then brought the evening to ft close. Several jreisons signed the pledge.