THE DIRECT VETO.
The local advocates of the temperance cause are sparing no effort to impress their views on the public mind. They recently resolved to avail themselves of the presence in New Zealand of Mr H. Melville, chairman of Committees in the Pai-liament of Hew South Wales, and invited him to give two lectures here. The first of these was given in the First Church on Thursday night, and the second in the theatre yesterday evening. Mr Melville, who is a speaker of singular force and eloquence, and gifted, moreover, with the saving quality of humour, took as a text for his opening address the question “ Is there not a cause ?” He showed by illustration and argument that there was indeed abundant reason for reform in the customs of society in regard to drink, and for the abolition of the traffic in it. His second lecture deal} with the question “ Why we drink, and what we drink.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 18, 29 July 1893, Page 9
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158THE DIRECT VETO. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 18, 29 July 1893, Page 9
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