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Kumara Times, Issue 1065, 28 February 1880, Page 4

Mr Bulwer, M.P., speaking at the Licensed Victualler’s banquet at Ipswich recently, said it was idle to think that the licensed victualler’s trade would be put down by agitation or legislation, while people preferred something else than water to drink. The genial ascetic Sir Wilfred Lawson had abandoned the Permissive Bill, and the Gothenburg system had fallen through. Now they had local option, which Mr Gladstone supported ; but he thought the magistrates did their work very well without assistance. Sir George Grey appears to have fallen out with the Freemasons, and evidently wishes to have no further connection with the mystic craft. At the Thames, Sir George was invited to honor the banquet lately given with his presence, but excused himself on the ground that •* he had promised to dine with his Worship the Mayor, and so long a time had elapsed since he took part in a Masonic gathering that he had almost forgotten that no belonged to the craft.”