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 Zealand Temperance Society, with a membership of five;—a little society, truly, but probably the first of its kind in the Southern seas, and important, therefore, as being the herald of the Temperance crusade in the new hemisphere. Only pioneers or students of the history of colonization know the toils and hardships of the founders of a colony twelve thousand miles from its base. But amid the trials and difficulties which beset the infant settlement, which at times was threatened with starvation and by warlike natives, Mr Saunders never abandoned his propaganda. He inaugurated a series of lively public discussions on Temperance, which lasted for several months, and