"VERY WARM."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1103, 17 April 1911, Page 4

"VERY WARM."

LIVELY NO-LICENSE MEETING. (By Telegraph— Press Association.) Reefton, April 15. Mr. T. E. Taylor spoke hero last night. Among the audience was the. Rev. Win. Thompson, organiser for the Licensed Victuallers. From almost at tlw outset Hie meeting developed into a duel between thete two. Mr. Taylor said the advertised statements as to Maine, published on the eve of last election, were absolutely false. Mr. Thompson: Absolutely true. Mr. Taylor said the man who sign;d that advertisement knew it to bo false. Ho was an ex-parson who once had preached righteousness, and now worked for a traffic founded on vice. Mr. Thompson: You miserable coward! The proceedings at this stago grew very warm. Mr.' Taylor: I never met this man before, but now I uavo him under the whip. Mr. Thompson: You are a liar and a cad. You broke up my meetings. Mr. Taylor: I never met you before, and n-sver broke up your meetings. Mr. Thompson: If not you, it was your party. Mr. Taylor: That is not I. Mr. Taylor termed Mr. Thompson "a ronogade parson," and Mr. Thompson said Mr. Taylor was a liar and no gentleMr. Taylor compared Dr. Salmond's article against Prohibition to drawing a salmon, if not a red herring, across the scent. ■i. local solicitor called on Mr. Taylor to retract, and the proceedings again became lively. Mr. Thompson allewd that Mr. Taylor had connived at the escapj of a certain person (named) from justice. Mr. Taylor challenged Mr. Thompson lo writs the chareo down, and he (Mr. Taylor) would proceed against him for slander. It was the most exciting meeting held in Reefton for years. A resolution was passed, only three voting against, but numbers not voting, affirming the- principle of national option or recommending it to tho Dominion.