JUBILEE DRINK BILL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1859, 5 June 1888, Page 4

JUBILEE DRI NX BIL L.

*. — . How much "good cheer" wsa there § during the Jubilee last year ? Dr Dawßon Barns, m his National Drink Bill for 1887, Ib ready with the answer. The Bill was higher m 1887 than it waa In 1886. The Inoreaßa cannot— ex hypothesi, when the United Alliance advocate is making an exparte statement— be due to a normal deoieaßo of temperance ; therefore It is due to some abnormal cause. What can this have been bat the Jubilee, and here therefore are the figures :— D r, Blll S::: ::: '%.%% Jubilee Drink Blil ... £2,047,895 That is a formidable total, but Dr Dawson Borne aeeß one element of oomfort; Jubilee, like Christmas, may bring good oh«er, but It does not coma once a year. On the contrary, this disturbing cause m temperance statistics " cannot operate again during aeveral general i mi Another eanse for satisfaction is, we think, that the Increase was mostly In beer and aad wine, and hardly at all In aplrita. We appear on the average to have each of ub drunk the Queen's health In a shilling's worth of gin.— -"Pall Malt G Z3tte."