TWENTY-TWO MAYORS ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 118, 21 March 1885, Page 3

TWENTY-TWO MAYORS ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

(advebtisement.l (Continued). Lstters w««re read from twelve Mayor* who were uuble to bt present Tbe following are a few extracts :— The Mayor of ' Worcester (T. S Tewnshend, Eaq ; ) wrote:— "l regret esceediaglv being at your meeting. I should have much liked far have taken part ia ifc, aa, being an abstainer for tweatjr^eigbrTearii, I could have spoken, from experience, my sincere belief in the great value o^ teetotatism, to mind, body, •nd .estate..;! mainly attribute my. success, in life, underj God's blessing, to tbe fact of my being' *a' abstainer ; :it bat been both » aegative and a positive sdvantage te mm." Tbe. Mayer of Steckton on-Tees (G. F. Bmitb f Esq) wrote.^-^^lam ealy»n apprentice ta tlie good ;cau«e.' My first year will empire on May 21st, but when I say who*. I.";^r*t commenced I thought oaly of tryiegit fora month, and that I still continue/and intend tn do so, I think it speaks fer it-elf. : Jf every one will ■take at l^st a trial, it will be a step in the right •directipu; audi the benefits arising from that trial will. I have no doubt result in being an immease boon to tbemselveL*, and 'also a source ef ißC^ulabls, goodto their Wlow-men." The Mayor of Bedford (James Thomas HobsM, Bsq-l ■■" sfitoto:r-'\My «w*'- per tonal expenCncesLof ' ab'tineaee frem ■iiaauhwtafi^very satisfactory, and it ie impossible to estimate too highly the, importance of the 'great si ork in which your st^tyi* '•■gaged:'' ■'» Tto : '/.iitotr Barnstaple (W. Avery, Esq.). Whe excused his. absence on . the, grovad o€%geV being within is - month : of enterhtg c« his seventieth year, wrote as fellows ;—^ Tarn sorry to say that ' my ' experience, qf: total : • toUnence has been oaly a brief one. Strictly temperate frois py youth, T had hot felt the importance" 'of . . " becoming ■ a - pledged abetainer until, four or fi-e years ago, when it became my duty", as a magistrate, to join in the committal of an unhappy maai to take his trial for the 1 murder of his wife in'*' At' of drunkenness— a crime ter which he .was -afterwards executed?. • <y it-VAe Continued)

German Enterprise and Progress The Emperor William, in a letter to the members of the Berlin Town Council, acknowledging their congratulations for the New York, dwells upon the progress made during the past year in the different domains of the political life of the State, and upon the beneficial development of the ' country's economic affairs. His Maj- | esty then proceeds as follows : — The settlementsonadistant continent which have been placed under the protection of the/Empire, iwill give an additional outlet to German enterprise and activity, and will thus assuredly have a beneficial effect in stimulating trade and manufactures. .Under the blessed auspices of the peaceful state of affairs ;■ which ushers in the new year, and which, I trust, will continue, there is every prospect of a gratifying progress . in, both the material and moral interests of my people.'' (Reading matter continued on Ath page