BRITISH WORKMAN PUBLIC HOUSES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 143, 19 June 1877, Page 4

BRITISH WORKMAN PUBLIC HOUSES.

The following appeared in lhe New Zealand Wesleyan for Juoe:-~'i_ie appointment to L^erpool of the Rev. Cti-e. Garrett, the- great Wesleyan Temperance Advocate, bas borne noble fruit to tbe Temperance cause, the flcheme which he initiated f.r opening. "Briiiah Workmen's Public-houeej" having resulted in the fortniltion of do

less than eighteen of theae useful institutions in fifteen months. -The opening of the eighteenth in Deoeniberi laat was afcteuded by two Bishops j and three Canons of the Anglican Chiircb, with ministers of ail the leading denominations, including Roman C^tbo-, lies, and merchants and ahip owoerfe of world-wide repute. From the apfeeichea delivered' we J father that ' t1.6 aimed at is to establish these housed at intervala along the whole length! of the docks, and .thus form a .counter at-,, traction to' the ordhidry p'ublic-hoiJae3> of which there are no fewer than! ,46 ( within a^adiais of 150 yard*, from j the Seamen's Home. In proof of success it was stated tbat 9,396 galtonVbfbojcoa, coffee, and tea bad been sold duringj the week; that the average (taking^ tveVe-. nearly £600. How much of" this wo!u(d, had no suoh houses been, , open, have gone into the publicans' till, and what consequent misery and crime have been .aved, it i. impossible to tell; bui it augurs Well for the 'success of tbe movement that though commenced for purely philanthropic motives it has been conducted on strictly .commercial. principles,, and pays the share-holde.a upwards! of ten per cent, profit. „.-.-.■_■,• ; ; ' ' '- f - 1 k . r " - 1 1111 ).

V At Diine'din litely a tall, gabnt desperado named John Gately, believed : to be a brother of the Victorian hafag--1 man, was placed in the dock onj a charge of^ burglary, j He. was arrested with the greatest difficulty in a room iq/ | which he had 'barricaded himself, 4nd j on his person were found arnumber i of keys, one of which' was filed and tajmi.' ! .p.ered, lyitb, as weil.as a ««nedd.y,!' cjnci 'Vpieoe of rope knotted at each end, and passed through nine inches of i^ad pipe. The priseoner was tried and committed for trial on two oharges. ! I !i The peculiarly soothing effect of 'a [good revival hymn vigoronslyYefafiu fo_. by a powerful choir in suppressing a | panic In a crowded building, -was cxi hibited ; very successfully at.the Queen's. Theatre, Duoedin, lately. "The Gukr-. I dian says;--Just before, 3 o'olock,. when ! the pit, stall, aud dr^ss circle were rapid-' | ly filling with ;i h^m_i_tß,-'the -Ire-bell j tolled out, and to make matters ,woiW, : the alarm tf as intensified by a mischievous report that the theatre Was oh fire. Tin "yaiq; -WraeTof the ■ocbU piers of the stage Wietf' to quell* the exoitment ; there waa a regular 3tap_|)ede * tpwi»r dfl J ust fat this critical moment the choir, who Aat [near the stage struck -up, one of Sain- ; key and' Moody's hymns in very v{g- ■ orous accents. Their loud ringing ■ voices had an astonishing influence, \ot the alarm gave way to confidence, and eventually the seats, instead [oi being emptied, becamed filled. \ ..

'You cannot keep me downlj'^' shouted a Radical orator at a public meeting. " Though I may be ,pre_Bed below the waves, 1 rise again; you will find that I come lo the surface, gentlemen." "Yes," said a conservative, who had coipe among the audience /pr the purpose of anthropological study "you come to the surfac^'tb biow;'* ( One morning 'recently-^ when the workmen of Messrs Wilmo.t and C<L l brewers, Shetfield, went to ; work th^y were horrified to find the dead body of George Fisher the night-watchman; in oue of the vats of beer; he juaving evidently fallen in, and being unable toextricate himself,.; bad; been/. boiled to death. , | j