MRS LEAVITT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5302, 5 May 1885, Page 4

MRS LEAVITT.

—. • This lady, who is expected to arrive here on Thursday, ia the daughter of a clergyman, was trained for a teacher, and employed, before her marriage, several years in that capacity in Boston, in which city she has resided since 1852. In 1867 sho opened a school of her own to support herself and her three little daughters, which she managed till April, 1881, when, at the earnest request of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Bhe refused a most honourable position which was offered her in the State Normal School at Framingham, Mass., to devote herself entirely to temperance work. At the end of the first year Mrs Leavitt entered the list of national workers, and six months later, October, 1882, was appointed National Superintendent of the Department of Franchise, the following October waa made Superintendent of work on the Pacific Coast, having under her charge the States of California, Nevada, and Oregon, and Washington Territory. Having accepted an invitation to visit Honolulu, when this was made known at the last National Convention, held in St Louis, Missouri, tho last week of Ootober, 1884, she was appointed to carry out the idea conceived in Miss Willard'a busy brain, approved of by this grand body of women, namely, to carry Women's Christian Temperance Unions around the globe. Mrs Leavitt received the official notioe of the appointment six clays before she was to sail from San Francisco for Honolulu, Nov. 15, 1884