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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 185, 17 January 1877, Page 2

Mr Fox lias already announced Ids intention of next session proposing- the adoption of the plan, which ho says is in force in America, by which all publichouses arc obliged to close on election days. He also advised those ho was addressing at llangitikei, and abstainers throughout the colon}-, to combine to return members of Parliament who would vote straight for the Permissive Bill. This question be said was of such vital importance that it was necessary they should be prepared to break up all party tics and take their stand on the platform of returning men who would put a stop to the liquor traffic.

From Canterbury wo learn that the yield of grain there this year'is likely to be enormous. The crops promise an unprecedented return, and the quantity of wheat available for export will be very great. The Dunedin Star says ;—The proprietor of the Enoch , that queerest of religious publications, which has its home at the Thames, in the Auckland Provincial District, declares that he is £l6 out of pocket, and that he fears he must cease to publish any longer. This don’t matter much, as according to the last number, the world is just about to come to an end, and there is “ to be a general wind-up of all the vain works of fallen men.”