The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-04 00:00:00

!MANAGE.

101.6 OF PURBECK YLCHT CLUFL—At a committee
meeting held on Wednesday, the Yacht Racing Associa-
tion rules were unanimously adopted without any modifi-
cation. A few supplementary regulations were sae,
proposed and canted. Two new members (Messrs. F.
Iliter, Town Clerk of Wareham, and Lewis Shedden,
cutter Gipsy Queen) were elected and it was further
resolved to appoint • paid secretary.
CHURCH OP ICHOLAND TINFEJLAXCH fiOCIXTY.—A well
attended public meeting was held at the Mowlem
Institute on Friday evening for the purpose of forming •
branch of the Church of England 'Temperance Society.
The Rector presided The Rev. 0. L Manse', of Church
Knowle, president of the Swanage Temperance Society,
explained his position in regard to the proposed society
from • teetotal standpoint He assured the meeting that
the tempentrce workers would give their hearty support
to this and every attempt to cope with the evil of drunken.
fleas. He alluded to • remark of the chairman that
hitherto the teetotaler.' had not had much influence, and
pointed to the present meeting as an argeruent against
that assertion, and to the general aspect of the movement
as the effect of the persistent efforts of the working men
to press the claims of their organisation upon all classes
of the community.—The Rev. J. B. Kane was then in-
troduced as a deputation from the parent society. Ilia
speech abounded with clever hits and much Irish wit and
humour, and was exceedingly well received. He told
Hans Anderson's story of " The Ugly Duckling" that
turned out to be a swan, and applied this to the temper•
mnsa movement, which ior many years had been ridiculed
and m sltreated, hut which had at length been recognised
as a noble instatutbin. When II years since he (the
speaker) signed the pledge to have mentioned such • thing
to a Bishop would have put one in danger of excorum unica-
Lion, but now the dignitaries of the Church were the
patrons and leaders of the cause. The Church of Eng-
land swan had two wings, and they trusted (though he
WWI not aware that swans U 114.41 wings much) that it would
thus more speedily arcoruplisli its work. There was the
rostinerwe svel ion for t,etot ilk, a mil another di
stm fir temperate men. Thu aid nut profess to
define moderation, indeed it eould not, but it desired to
enlist the sympathy and (o...paration of earnest hearts,
who were opissoul to the power ler evil .4 the drink
traffic and our drinking t'llitolllA. The speak. r remarked
on the objection that it was .iangennis fur bard drinkers
suddenly to leave of thia,,r, that tin. etperjenee of " goal
birds" opp.ised such an asertion aud he related II con-
versation be bail had with a c.ro.ier, who thought him
joking when he itsked bow many inquests lie hall held
over prisoners who had dinl from the effect of having
their drink stopped. In reply to those who complained
of the intemperate language of temperanee speakers, he
asked WWI it unreasonable to sums..e that men, many of
whom had suffered terribly by drink, and who had been
rescued by teetotalism, should sometiluvw be b.sl to i.e,
concerning the former, language more harsh thau polite,
and, in describing the latter, should occesionaly be in
danger of exalting it above the gospel. On the other
band their opponents were not behind in their use of
strung expressions, and now and again very mystilie4
one. I have been intensely puzzled, •%id Mr. Kane, I.y a
remark which fell from a brother rierevinati at • meeting '
I lately attended, which was to this effect—that he never ,
looked upon hops but they were to him fresh evidence of
the truth lif Clirktianity—(great laughter). The deputa-
tion convluded with a heartyzieal to all present to jo;n
Thorne
the society. Dr. moved, Mr. Harman aeconded,
and it was unanimously a, that • branch of the
society ho formed. A meeting is to be held on Monday,
April 3rd, to elect the officers and adopt rules for this
branch. The present teuiperance society has been in-
vited to amalgamate with the new organisation, and will,
undoubtedly, accept the invitation.