LIQUID REFRESHMENT AT THE FRONT.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 16 February 1901, Page 4

LIQUID REFRESHMENT AT THE FRONT.

Mr. Kudyard Kipling, being asked by a temperance apostle for his experience in South Africa, wrote :—“ Sir, —ln reply to yours, so far as I could see in South Africa, it did not much matter what sort of spirits a man fancied, because there was not the least danger of his getting more than was good for. him. On the other hand, men who could do without liquid, who did not fancy that they needed to flood their insides every two or three

hours, got on better than men who, through more physical inconvenience and carelessness, were always sucking at their waterbottles. In this, as in all things, the man who is temperate in the full sense of the word survives.”

In answer to inquiries from the Westland Town Clerk, on Municipal voting, Mr T. T. Martin, Secretary to the Municipal Association of New Zealand wrote as follows :—I understand the old disqualifications of the defaulters has ceased to exist. I suppose it was thought inequitable to disallow the vote of a ratepayer who was behind in his rates, while the residental occupant, who might be behind in his rent, was permitted to vote. A English paper has the following; — When Lord Hopetoun was first Governor of Victoria he was not popular, and ti e comic papers nicknamed him 1 Lord Hopeless.’ He soon ; however, made his way into popular favour, but it was Lady Hopetoun’s remarkable skill as a matkswoman which more especially won the hearts of the Victorians. When she stood up at the butts and made “bull’s eye” after “ bull’s eye ” with the skill of an old bushman, big-bearded men shouted themselves hoarse and rolled on the ground with surprise and delight. The word went round, “ Isn’t she a nailer ?” and by that familiar but meant-to-be highly-complimentary epithet was the Vice Eeine known.