Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 282, 7 April 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

There are m Great Britain and Ireland i 0,655 breweries, In Germany there are 83,138. Ob Bank Holiday the Liverpool Dio« cesan C. E. T. S. held opm»air temper ance meetings on the shore at Southport. Lady Beade has closed the publichousee on her estate, The Valley, Anglesay, and opened a coffee-house at Flanfaethlu. A report just issued by a large brewery company mentions that " In view of the Uncertainties connected with legislation, the Board have continued to act with great caution ia the purchase of liceus. Property." The "proceedings "of the Bo«iety for the Study of Inebriety contains a stnk.u* paper by Mr. J. R. Mcllraitb on " Pro posed Changes m the Law .Relating to Habitual Drunkards." The paper w»> read at the last meeting of the feociety, and generallj endorses the recommendations of the Departmental Cooiinitie. which recently reported in favour of ex tended powers for dealing with habit uu. inebriates The Morning Herald, of By -iuey, New Sotuh Wales, publishes a luiier truuj the Hon. JNeal T>ow, in which, r<-|>/j into charges concerning the Prohibitory Liquor Law of Maine, he states thai tin Prohibitory Law has changed tue whole condition of the State for the belter; that the manufacture and importation oi spirits from abroad has practically ceased ; ~ that the consumption of nquo'i is not one twentieth as much v* tor xnerly ; and that while in some to<rui> the law is not fully enforced, it is well carried oat in Portland, the chief mj and port, with a population of 4/o.Ouu persons. What is described as the " back-door" question has been annoying the Liver* pool publicans and causing some trouble of late to the Liverpool police. At a recent meeting of the City Justice.", a resolution was passed " requesting the Watch Committee to direct the bead constable to report to the Justices before the next Annual Licensing Session, the total number of licensed houses having back doors that are used by the public for purpose of trade, and to specify those licensed houses that have such back doors remote from the main entrance." In the House of Commons the Home Secretary was asked if he was aware that a Welsh teetotal J, P. had not only refused to sign a transfer of a publichouse licence, but had declined to state the reason of bis refusal. The Home Secretary, in reply, said the magistrate was within his right in not assigning a reason. The magistrate informed him that he bad signed hundreds of transfers, but had never signed a new license. A cycling organ says : " There are always differences of opinion as to what wheelmen should imbibe, but everyone is agreed that the less liquid one takes the better. Alcoholic liquids of all kinds do more harm than good. They stimulate for awhile, but the reaction is so great that one is more exhausted than ever. Tea, if you don't take too much of it, win be found the most refreshing of all drinks, and it will quench thirst more effectually if a dice pf lemon v takea ia it."