Temperature Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 266, 17 March 1894, Page 4

Temperature Items.

Mr Robert McConn calls attention to » statement that tlie right to farm the li quor shop" of the Kolaphnr State \fna to\< lately to ft Poona Pnrsee for three yeai for i, 100 000 rupees. A. scheme for the granting of old n. < pei-ions at the rate of 5* per we- k "• cc -rons members ovr>r 65 v*> - •■-■ ••*' WAS adopted by the RechaV'te Conf ( -r< t.<flaring its sittings at Norwich. The Licensing Committee at Folk'to '-io announces that a reduction of 'Ih number of public-bouses in the town haDeen decided upon. Few visitor* will fail to agree as to tbe wisdom of this step Rev Joseph liilgert, of Dornit. Intel* gave a temperance lecture denouncing the liquor traffic as worse than tho cholera A Russian court tried him, adjudged his speech a terrible offence, and punched it by banishment to the Ural. The Russian Government is interested in the li quor traffic, and recei% r es from it some 40 millions of roubles annually. Pasteur Vessons is carrying on, with the i sympathy of the mayor, active temper ance work among the French workpeople in Dnnkerque, and is opening a temperance and reading room to provide a safe place of resort The recent Liverpool Licensing, extending over seven days, reflected the strong public feeling that exists in the city. No new licenses were granted. One application for removal was agreed to. In fifteen cases no application for renewal were made, the applicants in many instances having probably feared opposition. In ten cases applications for renewal were, after full hearing, refused. Thus twentyfour licensed houses in the city were closed.