THE DIRECT VETO MEETING IN GERALDINE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2534, 27 July 1893, Page 3

THE DIRECT VETO MEETING IN GERALDINE.

TO THE EDITOR, Sin, - While reading ' valuable paper on Saturday eidn / laßt j Ilo ticcd a letter there’ d s jg ne( j « P.esident,” who j lavo received a fearful shock uo his moral organs by hearing that those wicked prohibitionists want to do away with the drink traffic, and that they even stooped so low as to hold a direct veto meeting in Geraldine, where they denounced the drink traffic to their hearts’ content. And that authority, Mr Hammond, had the audacity to say that drunken men had been seen on the streets in Geraldine. I, for my part, fully believe Mr Hammond’s statement, and lam fully persuaded if “Resident” had taken an occasional walk down the street this last three months without his spectacles I am sure his honorableness would have compelled him to own that men have even been in a worse state than was expressed by Mr Hammond. lam sorry “Resident” should use such stronglauguage against the prohibitionists, who are trying in all honest ways to alleviate the sufferings of fallen humanity by doing away with the cursed drink. 1 should just like to close my short epistle with the hope that “ Resident ” will not again attempt to write on a matter which is altogether foreign to him, which 1 consider is amply proved by his statements. His own words also prove him to bo onesided and biassed from beginning to cud. —I am, etc., T. H. Dalton. July 24,1893.

Making the Best of It.—Mr Green (who has been listening to Mr Brown’s account of a trip round the coast) : 11 And how did you like it, Mrs Brown i 1” Mrs Brown : Well, I didn’t see much of the scenery, but the cabin was very eoinforlable, and the stewardess a most sym pathotio woman.”