A REIGN OF TERROR.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 7, 2 July 1886, Page 2

A REIGN OF TERROR.

It i* reported in Adelaide that Wie Vigilaitee Society ha* been hritigfng pressure to bear on large nw retintWifirms in the city to induce then* to sign a paper prom:*)n» to iminiflt) telv disnrim ativ ' envgloyß. who tnav b>- detected bv any member oftbe * Vigilance Comm trice publtclioww*. or house* <4 ill fame, or speaking to any woman of ill fame. In most ease* the aoctfiy n said to hav* been saocaaeful IP exaMMig the pledge, as it m book-id uj by Uie im portant religious organisations which practically rule the citV and tlie colony. The con«e<i«n*ic„ is tdat.i perfect reign of teftvr has set in ainfiog clerks* Aop ssrvOht*. w#c housemen, Ao„ i»ho are rarolv te» tea seen out after n rtitfrJl. • M’veral dismi- al.i are said to diave bean effected on the application of the ' society. They hare do! met with entire succM l , however* and nrv prominent young man i* sufh-nfig from a severe Mark eye, said to have • been inflicted the other evening by a stalwart youth whom he fomi.l- talking to a girl in a leading street, and who-e name he rashly asked permission to ' enter in his notebook. «