DEBATING SOCIETIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 13

DEBATING SOCIETIES.

'■■■•' A 'debating'., contest, was-held- on Thnrsday . evening''■'Wtw'ieri.Ttlie"Vivian,'"Street"^Baptist; Literary and-Debating.-Society; and -the'-Gov-ernment Insurance, Debating Society; i in: the '6B9iftt-#iii■'i'gHftfl'JstsrjHJisnfc jßgHranftPf: .parrment.:., :Abotit fifty persons.-;were 'present, ithft subject: being: " "That, Great Britain will MM tlj 9 ; Qnverhniegt:Sooiety took fhoamruiative,and the, Vivian Street' Sflcfety th.flnegative.'l'lie Gfovor'nrJ merit'gflciety mi,rtprtsmify :bj Messrs.-Jfpse,. ■ and ■Dowuard (2),y while Messrs. Larking, Humphreys; Proctor, arid Kober spoke pn. behalf of -thi.,Vivian:, Strec| &pUtr. '■■] The. It/A.,' 'Llj'BiV- tynd, in summing up, stated that ' th.6', dehjtr ,W oroyfd a .very cfpse/ ami; He awarded first'pla'ce-to the (government' gociety, - who gained 273 pq'ipts.th'e V|vian'StreatSppjety >cnvitig'^?-BMRt§- u vThflJ]rq loading snoakm. were Messrs. Humphreys (Vivian) 80jpoiflts, and •'. Chaphi»»;(Gpyer)VWM ??.PP!9t3;,v'vhp,Ppntest : ' wa^foi 'oiyeri by ,the scrying °? Jjght rofresh- , m'frritßywhich brought, a .very,pleasant and pror' ; ;fltfi^lgV^yenir|g. ; ;t<j .0,, clost!:; r v .-/y,.;.;.:: . The'weekly meeting of the Wesleya'n Literary ' andVDebating Society yfas.'held pn:.Thursda,y ; WS-»»f1w m T-.DacenSn Abra- ' 'h«in Aijipolii., Thfi'stisaker,dealt in an ; inter«t- ; lni' : ni mfr'-W} l!lth* majn moidents in.th« life lef-the-fftefit ,Amer|aon .patriot...'.M the eonolu= sioii'of "a short discussion' a vote, of thanks,for Hi* lecture whs : carried by tcclamatiea.';,