Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 24, 27 July 1895, Page 3

Temperance Items.

The Woman's Signal states that Mrs Gladstone owes none of her energy to alcohol. Her favourite beverages are toast and water and weak tea, and she takes nothing stronger unless specially ordered by her medical adviser. The eatnc paper says tbat T,ady Harcourt, who 13 the daughter of the famous Aracr. lean historian, John Lothrop Motley, is a strict total abstainer, anvi has through her influence dove more than any other person to convert her husband, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the Temperance views he nox holds, aud which ho bravely and loyally advocates. Mrs G. Browne, who has lately been elected Grand Vics-Templar of England, was born in 1843, just about fifty years ago She signed the Temperance pledges when she was eight years old. In 1872 she joined the G n od Templars, and has worked hard for that body ever since. Mrs Browne never regretted signing the pledge at an early nge. A couple of weeks ago at the Tabernacle Band of Hope in Auckland, Mrs Collins said she was a life-long abstainer, and urged th# younji fo:ks present at the meeting to ab stain from intoxicants and tobaco >. But even life-long abstainers sign the pledge, it not for themselves, atieist as an exam pie to others. Let our young people if they have not already Hone so, si^jn the pledge without delay. The membership of the British Post Office Total Abstinence Society dm-inij the year has increased from 2390 to 2986. The (Jnited Kingdom Alliance Annual General Council meeting and public meet*' ing have bet n fixed to take place in Manchester on Tuesday, 23rd October. Miss Willard is now doctor Franc?s E. Wiliard, having had the degree of Doctor of laws enferred upon her since her re« turn to the States. Mrs Mary H Hunt is quoted as saying "The liquor traffic is so protected in Siam by England and America that missionaries do n"t biro to put the Americian flng over schoolhousrs lest the natives think they are saloons " On Sunday. April 23,200 temperance sermons were preached in different churches in London, in connection with the anuiversary of the church of England Tem pe ran ce Soc : ety.