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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 322, 30 September 1874, Page 2

Tho London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes: — One of the West End Clubs is just now engaged in an interesting investigation which is exciting a good deal of attention in fashionable circles. A young man well known in society, played ecarte with his " friends" at tbis club for £100 a game and hy midnight had won £800. By that time, however, he was so drunk that the waiters of tbe club advised him to go hom a , and in fact asked him to leave the club. To this he assented, but his "friends" persuaded him to go to their chambers and finish the night there. He did so, and says that next morning when be woke he found a memorandum to say that in addition to the £800 which he had first won and then lost, he owed to various persons £2,400, for which he had given 1.0.U.'5. He haa no recollection of anything of the kind, and so a committee is now investigation the affair privately. Tbe Rev. John Hall, of New York, writes : — lf anyone desires to know whut "intelligent and consistent temperance" means tbe reply is: — Such a personal attitude towards strong drink, in practice, as is consistent with good morals, with truth, and with a man's avowed opinions ; and such as is defensible by Scripture and reason. It was intended to exclude rant, cant, ignorance, dogmatism, the petty selfishness that trades on temperance reform and the honest or dishonest blundering which makes tbe reform a religion. It is not "intelligent and consistent temperance 1 ' to impute base motives to employ abusive language against honest men, even if they are not total abstainers ; to settle nice and stil' disputed questions to Hebrew, in chemistry, in physiology, in language which the " great world outside" takes as proof that the speakers are under-educated, to rest a good cause on doubtful when it can be sustained on assured ground or to strike as vehemently and passionately at fellow-labourera on the right and left as at the common enemy in front. A Scotch laddie delivering milk for a dairy in the suburbs of London, was stopped the other day in his round of calls by two detective office, s, who asked kim for whom he delivei eJ the milk. The boy, on telling them, was asked if bis employers put anything in the milk. " Ob, ay," was the innocent answer ; and the officers, thinking they had a clear case, each off. red the boy. a penny if he would tell them what was put in it. "Ah," said the boy with a grin, '« ye wadnagie'. th. penny though I tell it ye!" "Oh yes, we will" returned the officers. " Gies.t then," said the little fellow, doubtfully. The pence were then handed over, with the question, " Now, what do you put in the milk?" "Now," said the boy, ! with a cunning look, " I pit the measure I iin every time J tak onj oot P '