WATTLE BLOSSOMS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 30, 15 November 1889, Page 3

WATTLE BLOSSOMS.

(Adelaide Southern Cross.)

A ladies' branch has been formed, or partly formed, in connection with tne Australian Natives' Association, under the sweetly suggestive title of '• The WaMe Blossom League." The inaugunl meeting of the League was held in itae Victoria Hall on Monday evening, October 16, and was a decide 1 success. The air was redolent with the scent of the wattle blostom with which 'he room was decorated, and every lady an<i gentleman in the audience was presented with a spiig of the same fragrant heib. The proceedings took the form of an entertainment or social. A-ddresses were given K y the President and ViceI'resideut, bongs and recnationß by various ladies and gentlemen, and a comedy to finish went to make up an enjoyable evening. Owing to the number of encores unreasonably inbimcd on, the proceedings were unduly prolonged, and as the evening was waim, it was rather unpleasant in the crowded hall. The President gave rather a proey address to begin with, but Mr. Sowden, tho Vice- President, gave an amusing speech, more suited for a festive occasion. LoDg speeches are quite out of place at such a gathering as that of Monday night. The object of the Wattle Blossom League is, we understand, to enrol the ladies in Ihe National movement, so that, they, like their brothers and husbands, may be imbued with a thoroughly patriotic Australian sentiment. It, is not intended, we believe, to make the ladies active members of the Australian Natives' Association, but rathtr to make use of their influence and Hssietance in forwarding the objects of the Association. There is a sentimental as well as a practical side to most questions. It is the sentimental side of Australian nationality that the Wattle Blossom League will do most to foster.