Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 288, 14 April 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

The inquiry opened by the Hemp Drugs Commission, which assembled in Calcutta on Thursday week has been ad* journed. Ncne of the persons invited by the Commissioners to appear as witnesses responded to the request. At a temperance demonstration at Banbury lately, Eev. 11. Cubbon (Congregational ist) presided, and addresses were delivered by Hers. H. Wostenholra (Wesleyan). W. Fish (Primitive Methodist), and others. A resolution urging the Government to put forth their fall power to ensure the passing into law at an early date of the Liquor Traffic (Local Control) Bill was passed unanimously. A somewhat important licensing case occupied the Stockport bench several hours at Brewster Sessions. A new working men's suburb (without public* houses) having sprung up at Hollywood Park, Edgeley, a brewer, applied to ten move the licence he had for a neighbouring inn to a hotel to be put up in or near the new district. This proposal wa« stoutly opposed, and at length, after long debate, was, we are glad to see, refused. lowa has had a Prohibitory Law for about ten years. This law is observed outwardly, at least in Des Moines, the capital, and the Inland Christian Advo* cafe refero to it as " the largest city in the world without an open saloon. The population is now 75,846, a gain in the present year of 7373. The Prohibitory Law is the best enforced in our city of any city in the State, and at the same time we ore outstripping them all in growth, and yet the enemies would make ; the world believe that Prohibition would kill any city." There are signs of increased activity in temperance circles in Ireland just now, and o&eof the most hopeful is the forma* tion of a Band of Hope Union in Belfast. The London Board of the C.E.T.S. have resolved to memorialise the Ecclesiastical Commissioners against the re» newal of leases of pnblic«house property, owned by them. Tbe Dublin Total Abstinence Society, in many respects by far the best equipped s>n<l most thorough-going local society in Ireland, has discontinued its Coffee Pal* a-o Jour dbJ, bat its place has been taken by Common Seoie. An elaborate paper read byDr C.KDrystale at the World's Temperance Congress Chicago. The evidence produced is irre*« | is i Mo tbn» even moderate drinking shot'- ' •as life.while tola! abstinence prolongs it.