WANTON NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 279, 29 October 1883, Page 2

WANTON NEWS.

■■■■» '' VU^-.-ft.-i j The temperance", movement at Home has recently made gre»t f headway. ;lbu* the wilful waste <ot a>l_nctfqu»ptity of ;rwine at Salisbury? the; whole ofjwhich wat thrown into the river Avon; at'thVback oftpeCity lnfirmary, where the-port at least, which was valued at from i_s'to 14s per bottle, would hay. ' bbpefite'd^niaßy bf the siok, has done tbe cause no gob_. The l? cTrcumstinces are these; MrßaTXßooth, the l»*der ot ths -Blue Ribbon move* 1 ment, delivered^ to .addresaja^SaUsbiMy, and made ap extreme; :snejßcb,-in wnich he strongly condemned the who had the wine-glass m his ha_d' and th© brandy bottle on the sideboard;' A-wealthy miller was m the audience/ and Mr-Booth was his guest. } At the breakfast table the next morning the hostess nude the announcement -that her husband had re« fsplved) to sweep ; the owhole-,of0 whole-,of the wine .P£W e *j"» th^wl^AW, explaining that # cy «-* d onl * M^n, forviftforf. Mr : Booth exblaimed « Mlelrfj_uV» knd taking two'b'ottle?, smashed; then" necks at ']^^ ,^^s^ u^'* s *^' a,^ ta * t, '* , * to th* river,' ancT declaring: that nota'a'drop should pollute; the f ear3hc. £ f^ by tram, and the„.family completed tha 4eitruqtiouofthewine ; oej|ar. . „„