MRS K.L. STEAVENSON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 11

MRS K. L. STEAVENSON.

ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND. j (From Ova Own Cop.res ;ondent.) I AUCKLAND, August 16. • A temperance reformer, Mrs Katherine Lenfc bieaven»on, of Boston, world's president of the W.C.T.U., arrived in Auckland to-day from Sydney, and was given a mayoral reception. In the ! course of an interview Mrs Steavenson, | speaking of temperance work, said while in Australia she found a strong feeling growing in favour of prohibition. Just as New Zealand had in the past heard much of the nonsuccess of prohibition in America, so the people of New South ' Wales were having quoted to them the nonsuccess, the alleged iniquity, and the terrible amount, of drinking going on on

1 the quiet in prohibited areas in Ne\ Zealand. There is no question of thy success of no-license in America, Mrt Steavenson says, though she adds that she would prefer a system of taking the local option there once in three years, as we do in New Zealand. At present America has three systems at work, in some States prohibition being State wide, in others applying to counties, and in ,' others to cities and towns. In those States where the elections come once a year it is just a continual fight. Biennial or triennial elections, in Mrs Steavenson's opinion, are preferable.

The succession duties on th« estate of the Uvte M. Chauohard, of the Ma^asins de Louvre, Paris, will, it is reported, amount to nearly £750,000, indicating that his fortune was about £5,000,000. ■ The lives of the. six great Victorian poets extended originally over just a century, from the birth of Teunyson, the eldest of them, in 1809, to the death of Swinburne, the .young<est, this year.