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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9167, 15 August 1908, Page 6

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InHu"iiZii is always rnoro or less previvlfu at this Hr-a-i'in of the year. This di.se:'s u very similar to n morions eold and if allowed to tako itn course is liable to cmm serious rostlts. The best tro.atmont. for in.luenza is,to avoid exposure and take Cluimbj, lain'.s C n\%h Remedy. This medicine immediate relief find if used as divocsted, will wa.d oil all clangorous consequences. It leaves the system in a nituiai ami healthy e edition. It always cures and ernes qtinsklv. For s.ile by all che:iiistd and stor. keener.

STOCK MARKETMessrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Eketahuna stock sale, held yesterday, as follows: —Our entry was confined to sheep, a couple of lots failing to put in an appearance. The attendance was large and business at auction 'spirited. We cleared the whole of our entry, prices being in favour of vendors. We quote: —Breeding ewes 7s to 12s, forward wethers 14s Id to 14s 4d, store wethers 13s. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report having held a most succor t'ul sale yesterday, of dairy stock, etc., on account *of Mr 'John Walsh, of Mangatainoka. There was a very large attendance. The cows which were in splendid condition, and calving early, met a most spirited sale. The sound cows realised an average price of £6 lis, and the heifers £5 Bs, which constitutes a record for the district this season. Pigs, horses and sundries also told particularly well. Messrs Dalgety and Company report having held their Eketahuna sale on Friday, August 14th, in Messrs Abraham and Williams' yards. En tries exceeded advertised numbers, and they hav? to report a total clearance under the hammer at advanced prices. They quote:--Best hoggets to 10s lOd, others to 9s 7d, 2 tooth wethers to 123, ewes in lamb 13s, fat and forward ewe 3 lis, dairy cows from £4 to £s_los. NO-LICENSE-WHAT IT MEANS. The local option poll is in the near distance, and in a few weeks the electors will be called upon to say whether they will have license or no-licen?p. How many who vote really u.kbrstand what they are voting for? Ask the man in the street what no-license means, and he will probably tell you that it means the abolition of liquor. There never was a greater mistake. It is cus-1 tomary to refer to the supporters of the system as "the temperance party," and to its opponents as "the liquor party," but these designations are misleading. Both parties claim, with equal reason, to be temperance parties, in that they are both supporters of true temperance; both can, with equal reason, be described as liquor parties, in that each advocates a system for the sale of intoxicating liquors. The difference between them is purely one of method. NO-LICENSE, NOT TEETOTALISM. When the Prohibitionists, as they were then called, rejected the famous ! Clause 9 offered them by Mr Seddon, which proposed to make no-license I mean no-liquor, they stood committed ■ to the principle that the sale of ' liquor was desirable, and thence fori ward they have confined their efforts s to altering —and in their view i amending—the method of selling. They have recognised this position in many ways. They have ceased to • call themselves and their official \ organ by the title "Prohibitionist," and i r i season and out of season they I clamour for the moderate vote on the 3 ground that they are not attacking . liquor —they only seek to close the , open bar. 3 TWO SYSTEMS FOR THE SALE OP LIQUOR.

Thus, when the elector votes nolicense, he does not, as he has probably hitherto believed, vote for the abolition of liquor. He simply votes for an alteration in the method of sale. His vote means that instead of liquor being supplied in licensed hotels, under proper supervision, and under stringent condition as to hours and as to supplying drunkards and children, it will be supplied to the home, to be consumed under no supervision other than that of the consumers themselves, and with no restrictions, except that it must be purchased outside the no-license area. In other words, the money now spent in liquor will still be spent in liquor, but cannot be expened in your own district.

WHICH IS THE JBEST SYSTEM?

There can be no question as to which is the better of these two methods. While perfection cannot be claimed for the present licensing system, it is immeasurably superior to the unsupervised selling prevalent in the no-license districts. Instead of decency and order, we find in these districts the evils of the sly grog-seller, drunkenness in the home, arid increased drinking among young men and even boys. Every day brings news of some new horror from these districts, and as the best system is the one that makes best for decency and order, we are forced to the conclusion—which at one time appeared paradoxical—that the real temperance party is the party that votes for continuance.*

— ♦ MAKKET HEPOKT. Tim follo-vin* arc. the wholcsalo prices tj'iotcd locally, August 15th, 11)08 : - Pbr Ton. it 8. d. £ 3. (1 Flour, s'ks 72 0 0 Wheatmeal 12 0 0 Pollard U 0 0 Baled Straw :■! 0 0 Chaff— Baled Hay 4 0 0 Beat Oaten 5 0 0 Barloy Oaten Straw Pearl 22 0 0 obaff, 2 10 0 Onions 12 0 0 Oatmeal 14 10 0 Split Peas ,K 0 0 Bran a 0 0 Potatoes <> 0 Vim iivmRh. Wlioat, fowl 5 0 Beans r. o Oita. nhorfc .. .'i 0 Liarlay, fc d 4 <i 0+tf)!oi)K ..3 0 Blue Po.is 4 i; OiK (ivm .. il i» Partridge P( ins 5 0 Mami .. 4 (i Pku i.n. TJ;imd .. 0 Bacon 80 C-jiwse .. (J Batter yd to lOd Era* Is Od