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NZ Truth, Issue 63, 1 September 1906, Page 8

■I am strongly on the sido-,fOf: :! the' writer ol a letter which appears m" bur correspondence columns. What ;: "Encourage Local Industries" statas.. ; : is a fact. Tenders were adveirtisefl 1 ' rfor one week and the next the newspapers were officially informed of they acceptance of an English tender . This is nothing .more or less than a job and. a swindle/ and if the matter were searchingly enquired into something very disquieting Would be discovered, beyond a dou-bt. Will Sir joe have a go at the little. mystery ? He's hard to beat when he gets going, and sometfody is ! needed to ferret out the why. of this thusness. .

! . The exposure ol the vilely alcoholic ! nature, of. VPenma," by "Truth" and •Dr. Mason, gave one very prominent' parsonic bible-in-schools, ■ anti-ljoozc, and antievervt-hing-arian a crool shok. .This shepherd' had been kidding liimselt he was • sufierinr- from ; the papsi 1 :lals or the hootchikootchi or some •such complaint— which m < reality was •probably ! dnly the same old chronic 1 thirst' as .besets the common or garden species of, boozer— and he had been/swipirie: peruna by the gallon and ••p.ivttin'ff to the credit of this wonderful medicine the spice and bite he got in'oo his sermons under its 'fiooence. Now he jerry rumi'Mes that the fact of the matter is he was half-cock when -he waxed 'so eloquent, and he is' pouri and' begins to have a glimmer of brotherly sympathy with the drunk of his bracer. A prairie oyster ain't a had: substitute, Doc.,, of a, morning : teaspopnful of lemon Juice, fresh egg (whole) and a table-' Spoonful of Lea and Perrin's Worcestershire sauce. Gulp down. Takes a lots of beating ? .