Under the Screw

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 31, 15 March 1884, Page 3

Under the Screw

"Zauniel," in the Auckland Smr writes ; — For the last few weeks Boniface has been on his good behaviour. Mournful processions of you njj children la-fen with kits strongly suggestive of Sunday b^er have turned reluctantly away during the Sabbath dinner h«mr from the public-h.mse doors at which they had knocked un.-iviiilingly for admission. £mall knots of old custotnors Imv • held indignation meetings round the pubs. at which thuir usual supplies \v«r«* abruptly cut off. and nocrurnni proiiienailers have buen deprived <>' r.-.e tipplt- upon wli cii they calculate'! so regularly, i'-ur this is by "o menusill 'hsit the pd'ilic iions ■ coi)stMii<;iit< b:iv h:td to endure.. There !ia> bfiei. a r*'tu:irk:ii>le disposition to t\os • pHiicuiil.y at tlio prrtsor.be.l ho Mrs. The co>y canl- arti«s behind tli cio>p.d shutters have been rut!ile;-lv inter. licted, and late Wiiy'arrs b:ivibeen Mirpri.sH,! •;■> m -a* the we.l-knowr click nt the billiard bills ami the uu uiistakabie rartle of the dice that were -rout to beioken the activity which pervaded the seemingly proper houses of drink i;i the •' wee sina' hours nyotit the t'val"," Boniface has been alive to the signs of the times, and shrewdly read the porteius of a crucial struggle.