Mr Buxton is a brewer and a Liberal oand idate for Esssx. ■ Mrs Buxton is benevo lent and advooates temperance. The other day, says Troth, she addressed an audience of working-men on the waste of money and loss of time caused by drinking and smoking, but her peroration was interrupted by a ludicrous incident which was the more unpleasant, as it left, her with no dignified or adequate retoit. " Ah, missus !" shouted one of the hearers, " where'ud you be if us didn't drink 1 It's all along of us drinking as the Buxton's be bo fine; you'd be a wuss off without it, now wouldn t you ?"
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Kumara Times, Issue 1033, 23 January 1880, Page 4
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