Second General Meeting, Friday Evening, 

 October 2Ist, 1910 



Present — Lyman Lee, B.A., President, in the chair: 

 the Executive Co'uncil, and an audience of over 100. 



One member was elected. Three names were pro- 

 posed for election. 



Minutes of previous meeting w^ere read and confirmed. 



Tlie business being concluded, the President, in a few 

 well-choeen v/ords, introduced the lecturer of the evening, 

 Mr. E. N. McLaughlin, a valued member of the society, 

 who delivered a most interesting address On "Jamaica," 

 of which island he is a native,, though for some years has 

 been a resident of Hamilton. 



JAMAICA. 



By E. Noel McLaughlin. 



The lecturer quoted from "Home, Sweet Home," the 

 lines : — 



Mid pleaiSures and palaces though we may roam, 

 Be it ever so humble there's no' place like home," 



and remarked in cpening tJiat he would oft'er nO' apology 

 for his choice of subject, Jamaica being "a land of perpet- 

 ual summer, of , perennial verdure, of forest clad moun- 

 tains, soaring upAvarcls into- blue skies, aud wooing soft 

 kisees from langorous passing clouds ; a land of not onlj' 

 feathery palm trees, but alsO' of plumed bamboos, where, if 

 the date grows not ripe under sunny skies, the cocoanut 

 does, and where the perfume of coffee flower and orange 

 blossom take the place of the fragrant lo'i-osts of the better 

 land." 



The audience was invited to voyage to Jamaioa from 



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