Temperance Hall on June 8th, when about 40 members of the society attended and officers were elected for the ensuing year.
Mr. Hutchings's second Address on Missionary Work" was delivered in the Temperance Hall on June 15th. It was chiefly of a biographic character, in which reference was made to the almost insurmountable difficulties of the earlier missionaries Swatto, Carey Brown, Wilson Martin, Buchanan, and others.
Presentation of Prizes. The most fashionable and nearly the largest company that had been seen in the Temperance Hall assembled on the 22nd of June when the Mayor (J. Rock, Esq.) distributed prizes for architectural drawing to the successful competitors, Philip Henry Tree, Henry Edward Cruttenden, and Elkanna Russell. His Worship opened the meeting with an appropriate address, after which several excellent readings.
A lecture on Madagascar was delivered in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday evening, July 6th, by the Rev. Andrew Reed. It(sic) past and present were ably dilated on, and the lecturer closed with the hope that ere long Madagascar would be the great Britain of South Africa.
Editorial Articles from the "Gazette". After the lecture by Mr. Raper on the Permissive Bill mentioned on page 224, a discarded workman from the Gazette office who had been found wanting in honesty and almost as much in sobriety, but who afterwards joined the total abstainers, wrote thus to the Alliance News:– "We had a glorious Alliance meeting and among these electors I noticed town councillors, church wardens, lawyers, and men of property. So at it we went in right good earnest. Our glorious three decker, Mr. Raper, began pouring in shot and shell until all the bulwarks of ignorance and doubt and selfishness, were vanquished, and parties who to my certain knowledge had come to oppose it, were quite enthusiastic in its advocacy. I send you a copy of our town's paper which contains a report of our meeting. The editor of it had quite a tussle with Mr. Raper at the close of the meeting, but was completely beaten.
Karl Burg"
Now (said the editor) as the statement of that correspondent if true, would have put it out of our power to write in the strain we have done without a tacit admission of duplicity we were never guilty of, we will simply say we attended the meeting in question not to oppose it, but to report it; and at the close of the meeting, through the officiousness of the said member were led to make some remarks which did not subject us to defeat, but which were listened to in a respectful manner by the gentleman to whom they were addressed. It is due to ourselves to say that not wishing to disturb the harmony of the meeting by a prolonged discussion that would have re-opened the subject, and perhaps have damaged a cause to which we had strong leanings, we confined our remarks on that occasion to such facts as would justify our dissent from the principles of the Permissive Bill as explained by Mr. -
