PROHIBITION IN CANADA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2390, 2 August 1892, Page 3

PROHIBITION IN CANADA.

It will be remembered that some few months ago the Rev. Charles A. Berry paid a visit to New Zealand in the course of a trip round the world via Quebec, Vancouver, and the Australian colonies. He has now returned to England and," is giying Jus experiences to a '"paper: called The Young Man. The t>aily News says that no one will suspect the Rev. Charles A; Berry of lack of sympathy with the efforts to, discourage the liquor traffic; but his enquiry and observations in the Territories of Canada, which tyve within the operation of a prohibition law, have not enabled him to give a, very hopeful account of progress in ' this direction. By one authority he was assured that as much drunkenness can be witnessed in the Rookies as \i\ phu;o yjith tlifi same number of people, with the p:illl ; renQe ' tliat "it : is a more mad''and ftiaholic'iutoxipatiau there,QV.inj| f,o the yicj,oTis"<}gctqrii)g of the drinks for the greater profit of the vendor, Of his own knowledge Mr Berry is able to affirm that men can get drank before nine in the morning, as was made evident to. him by a coach drivai- who came near to ipsutting his party "into'a river.' Tim jncthtids adopted for getting tlie i\vm)i in are described as vqry''ingenious, some of them daring, some even comic. One was to fill eggshells with whiskey, and to seal up the shell, in a way not easily detected, with a, coating of lime. It was not until tho importation of pggs surpassed any. :; - ur,s;onab}e ypnaiimptiori of those delicacies fliat the officers on watch began to sujineqb the fraud. Then kerosene barrels

were turned tc use as secret carriages for the coveted di'am. Even logs of timber have been known to convey more spirits than sawdust. " Ingenuity " (says MiBerry) "is still at work in devising schemes for breaking the law, and that they are successful is only too evident to the most casual observer." —Exchange.