The officer in command was Captain Wm Farquaharson. After holding regular meetings, including outdoor meetings with music, usually just a cornet and a drum, the town Council had 10 Salvationists arrested and jailed for their inability to pay the fines. The fine was £5, or 3 months in jail. They were released on November 14 by the intervention of the State Governor, Lord Carrington. Services continued, probably just as noisily, until the Temperance hall was turned to a skating rink, and soon burnt down. This is a transcript of one of the Summons issued:
SUMMONS
To George Haycroft of Wollongong in the Colony of New South Wales. Whereas information hath this day been before the undersigned, one of Her Majesties Justices of the Peace in and for ……(next two lines illegible)…. 13th Day of October in a musical procession parade in Crown Street, a public street in the borough of Wollongong, without the written permission of the Mayor of the said borough. These are therefore to command you on Her Majesty’s name to be and appear on Thursday 18th October at 10 of the clock in the forenoon at the Wollongong Police Station in the said Colony, before such Justice or Justices of the Peace for the said Colony as may then be there to answer to the said information and to be further dealt with according to law. Given under my hand and seal this 15th day of October in the year of our Lord 1888 in the said Colony (signed) John Briggs JP
