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(PBB HIM ASSOCIATION..) Sydney, This Pay. Sir J. P. Abbott,, Speakerof the Legislative Assembly, who has just returned from a visit to New Zealand, has communicated his impression to a reporter of one of the local papers.' He said so far as he cquld gather the general view of affairs was somewhat gloomy, and the future of the colony was looked forward to with a good deal of anxiety. The low prices ruling for wool and other products were the chief cause of fee depression. He was not favorably impressed with the working of the prohibition regulations in the colony, where total prohibition seemed to be a failure. .He recounted how he went to a race meeting in a certain town. There was a liberal display of teetotal drinks for sale in one of the booths, bint they were mostly " Whited sepulchres." Acting on the advice of a friend he went to a booth and asked for ginger ale " from the right bottle," when he was supplied with a class of excellent whiskey.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 199, 21 February 1895, Page 2
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179More Outside " Opinions " of New Zealand. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 199, 21 February 1895, Page 2
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