TE AHORA BAND OF HOPE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 232, 10 December 1887, Page 3

TE A HORA BAND OF HOPE.

A Mi'Kii.NO of the above was held in tho Public 11- ill on Monday cV'-niij» List, and H.Kiij.lo tsuco-s-.. The hall w.ts crowded, an I ii uood program. ne su-> nittpd Rev. J. Mills iall o onped th • ehaii, an I diiriii j the evening made a Jew uppropti.ito and pitliv remaiks on the subject of t inpor.u.ce, and the good resulting from these- p- nodical in 'etings being held. Albs M. cLaichoy ably presided at the piano, and the following items were r^ndei' d w ith ci edit to tii >fi<> taking 1 part. Recitations b\ Mi-st-s M la.i^io Er.i'-inus>, A^nes Chuk 1 , Nellie LiiinkU-y, l J iudenco Monism, and Misters Allied Judkins, John Kiasinns, and James G.irfia. Are i'linsj " Melting Mnir^ntV '»y Mis Il«»lt, c.tn-ed niuch aiiinsenient : and a recitation, " CuiilfW must not ung to ni^ht," by Miss Howe, was exceedingly well given, and loudly applauded. Ronys : "Don't go near the bar-mom, bi oilier," Mi-s West ; " The la««t rose »tf Siuniner," Aliss litid, ((Mifored); ''Rose, Shamrock, and Thistlf," Alias Vioict Pavitt, (encored); and u The Ladies,' Mr \\iuse, (encored); were all very good. A pianoi'oite- dut-t, " Waves of 'the Ooean," by Mi^s F.irrell and AlcLatchey, w.is rendered by tiiose young 1. I dies in a leally iini-lied style, and was so nm eh applauded that an encore had to be responded to. Temperance sotiga were fitmff at intervals, and altogether u thoioughly enjoyable evening was spent. The whole of the arrangements were admirably canied out by the Secretary, Mr Vause,'and the results of the meeting were sat i.- factory in every way. We understand tiiose gatheiin^fi sue to be hi-ld fit moie frequent intervals during the summer season than tli-y have been during the last few months.