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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 109, 28 February 1885, Page 3

TWENTY-TWO MAYORS ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE. I ' ( (advertisement.) i It has been ascertained that the office I of Major in twenty-seven English cities and boroughs is held at present (1881) by ' total abstainers. Ten of these were present at a special public meeting of the ' | National Temperance League, in Exeter Hall, convened for the purpose of hearing their testimony in favour of total abstinence, the chair being occupied by the Eight Hon. the Lord Mayor of York. The variety of testimony given at the meeting was striking and conclusive. The Lord Mayor of York (J. S. Rowntree. Esq.) stated that he had been a practical abstainer all his life, and intended to remain so. He had intimated on the day of his election that it was his intention on moving to the Mansion House to continue the practice of his own home, where on intoxicating liquors were set before his guests, and after live months' experience he was disposed to think that he came to the right conclusion. One of his reasons for thinking so was that the duties of Mayor were probably at the present lime more laborious than they had been at any previous period, and required a larger amount of brainwork than they hai ever done before ; and it was one of the teachings of science in our day, which we know better than did any past generation, that abstinence from alcohol assists in brain work, keeps the brain clear, and helps one to meet the strain that is put upon the mental powers Seven-eighths of the crime which came under his notice during the preceding week had its origin in, or was connected with drunkenness ; and as a matter of fact, in the city cf York, if it were not for these cases of drunkenness, there would be no crime to claim the attendance of the magistrates. The Mayor of Leeds (George Tatham, Esq ) said that for forty -six years he had never had drink in his house, and never wanted it. When he was first asked if he would accept the office of Mayor, he said he was not prepared to act differently in regard to strong drink at the Town Hall from what he did at his own home ; but five years later they unanimously elected him, and with equal unanimity they requested him in November last to remain in office for a second year. His experience had been- highly satisfactory, and the municipal work of the borough had proceeded with great regularity, order, and efficiency without the aid of intoxicating liquors. (To be Continued.) (Reading matter consinued on Ath page.)

Notices CAUTION. Some unscrupulous firms are trying to force on the New Zealand people a Nostrum, under the cloak that it \% made in the United States— WHICH IS NOT TRUE. Under this pretence they are trying to deceive the Public and Incautious Purchasers into the belief that they are the Genuine AMERICAN HOP BITTERS. We wish to warn all honest and unsuspecting people against this deception, and to call the attention once more to the facts that the Genuine American Co.'s HOP BITTERS Are put up in Square, Panelled, Ambercolored Bottles, with White Label on one side, printed in Black Letters, and Green Hop Cluster ; and, on the other side, Yellow Label, with Directions in Red Letters, in English and German, and the name of "Dr Sould" blown in every Bottle. This is the only form in which Genuine AMERICAN HOP BITTERS are put up. THE Manchester Rifles will parade every Tuesday evening at the Public Hall, at 7 o'clock sharp, for Company Drill. All non-commissioned officers and privates of the Corps are requested to attend the -Captain's Parades on Tuesdays, and not the recruits only. Steady drill is absolutely necessary, or the Corps will be at a disadvantage when working with Garrison Corps at the Nelson Encampment. D. H. MACARTHUR, Captain. TO LET. A PRIVATE Temperance Hotel, situated comer of Carnden and Denbigh street, Feiiding. Apply to Mr J. C. Thompson, Cash Exchango, Feilding, or to C. Warne, Ashurst. HORTICULTURAL SHOW. FLOWERING AND FOLIAGE PLANTS. WITH the kind permission of the Feilding Horticultural Show Committee I will offer for sale at the Public Hall on Wednesday, the 4th inst., a number of Flowering Foliage Plants, during the continuance of the Show, viz. — 300 Flowering and Foliage Plants, comprising Begonias, Coleus', Palms, Exotic Ferns, Fuchsias, &c. F. J. HUNT, Florist. A BABGAIN. EOR Private Sale, by order of the Mortgagees, that first-class plant in full working order known as Roots & Co/s Steam Saw-mill, Makino road, Feilding. Terms easy. Apply at once to JNO. WALDEGRAVE, Palmerston North, Or D. H. Macarthur, Feilding. I A Lease' of good Totara Bush can be: obtained in the immediate neighborhood at a moderate royalty.