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welcome from those amongst whom you have labored 

 during your present visit. 



In bidding you farewell, the hope is cherished that 

 you and your dear wife may long be spared to fight the 

 good fight for Temperance, and, under the Divine bless- 

 ing, with ever-increasing success. 



JAMES MUNRO, President, V.A. 

 }. W. HUNT, Chairman, 

 J. W. MEADEN, Hon. Sedy, 

 DAVID BEATH, Treasurer, 

 JOHN VALE, Secretary, 



We left Melbourne early Thursday morning, Dec. 

 15th. We reached Ararat about 2 p.m.; wife went 

 on to Stawell, while I took a branch line for Hamilton, 

 where I was to deliver a farewell lecture, having been 

 advertised so to do in the Hamilton Spectator. Re- 

 turned next day to Ararat, which has a lofty and 

 beautiful mountain near by, at the foot of which 

 rests an ark of refuge, in the form of a capacious and 

 handsomely built benevolent asylum. The region 

 round about Ararat is among the pretty portions of 

 the colony of Victoria. 



Having lectured at Stawell, we left by the midnight 

 express for Adelaide, which is distant from Melbourne 

 five hundred miles west by rail. Sydney is about 

 the same distance from Melbourne, but in the oppo- 



