USTTEODUCTOKY NOTK 



|f N 1886 I was delegated by the Dominion Alliance 

 to represent Canada at the British and Colonial 

 Temperance Congress appointed to be held in London, 

 England, in July of that year, at the time of the Colo- 

 nial and Indian Exhibition. 



While speaking at that Congress I became acquaint- 

 ed with several Australians, who invited me to come 

 to Australia and deliver addresses on the subject of 

 Temperance, under the auspices of the Victorian Tem- 

 perance Alliance. 



The gentlemen referred to were Mr. J. W. Hunt, 

 Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Messrs. 

 Samuel Rudduck and William Hutchinson, members 

 of the Alliance. 



After receiving a cablegram from Melbourne to the 

 effect that the Committee had sanctioned the sugges- 

 tion made by these gentlemen, my wife and I left 

 Montreal for Melbourne on the 23rd day of January, 

 and arrived at our destination, after a very pleasant 

 voyage, on the 17th of March, 1887. 



The letters which follow are reproduced from the 

 Christian Guardian, to which they were written 



during our voyage " Homeward." 



D, V. L. 

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