Waitaki Licensing Committee. MEN DRUNK IN THE STREETS OF WAIMATE ON SUNDAY VISIBLE TO THE POLICE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 6, 10 June 1899, Page 4

Waitaki Licensing Committee. MEN DRUNK IN THE STREETS OF WAIMATE ON SUNDAY VISIBLE TO THE POLICE.

A GHOG-SEJJLER UNDEB THE INFLUENCE OF LIQUOR. " Though the cause of evil prosper, yet ''tis truth alone is strong. And, albeit she wanders outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong." Little more than a year ago, this town was in an upioar, o\er the fact that a Prohibitionist had daied to state in evidence befoie the Police Commission that he had seen 70 peisons enter an hotel between the hours of 8 and 6 o'clock on a Sunday. Nothing was too bad to say about such a reckless indhidual. The whole hive of Jiquor diones buzzed and swaimed aiound, as if the hive had been overturned. To the Commissioners the police said, in effect, impossible, "the Sunday Closing Law is obeyed." The banker said the men didn't go in while he was looking ; the pious meiehant lent his weight to the ' cause of evil," and the samples of Hunday pub visitors brought to give evidence paid that they — did go in. The causes which led to their visits were many and varied, but only one owned up to going for beer. The little Jiquor section of the community, for lenieiuber four peisons out of five in Waimate aie Prohibitionists, did all that was possible to injuie the man who dated to speak the truth. Slowly the excitement died away ; stiangetosay the the cause of the uproar seemed none the worse for his expenence, and, to the suipnse of the grog section, still lived and moved and had his being. But then you see he knew he had spoken the truth, which alone is strong, and could calmly abide his time knowing that tiuth will out ; and out it has, as the following extract from the Waimate Tunes' lepoit of the annual meeting of the Waitnki Licensing Committee on the 6th inst. will show : - "In renewing the license of the Wainmte Hotel, the cbahmnn stated that the police had lepoited that they had occasion to visit the hotel on Sunday night last, in leference to men being drunk on tbestieets, and that they found the landloid uudei the influence of liquor. He cautioned the applicant thiough his solicitor in regard to his conduct." Now we ask, is Sunday drunkenness a new thing in "Wannate? We hare abked men who think th»y know. Have the liquor sellers changed then policy since the Police Commission ? and tlae;invari«.ble answer has been ** No, not at/ all." In our own mind theie is no doubt about' the matte*. There is as much liquoi consumed on Sunday as on any other day, and few will attempt to deny it, or deny that it has been so for long enough. The is nothing to surprise one in the Report of the Police as to chunks on the stieetß— it is " stable news," The only pei&ons who don't know this aru those who don't want to know it.' Mow that the police have made this report, we ask those peisons who weie so anxious to whitewash the tiade at the Police Commission for their apologies fo the prohibitionists they maligned. -We don't expect; to get them, but our claim to them is a valid one, There is a lesson in this Police .Report for the. detractors ol piohibition iv Clutha. The 'stock aigument, ot these people is that piohibition in Clutha has made sly giog sellers and perjuiexs. We put friwaid our modest claim, that under licen&e, Waitaki has sly giog selleis and ptrjmeis. We want to place this on recoid against the time when the cavillers at piohihition in Waitaki will irtise the sly grog pei jury cry. „ ', Liquor sold on Sundays and alter legal houis against the law. is sly grog-* > The man wiio selis it is a sly grog selJei. Men who under oath in a of law, state what jthey know to be* ttntrue, aie perjurers and the Police Commission was a couit of law. ""...'_ Liquor prodocei," sly giog severs and liais/prohibifcion exposes th«stn, and near sighted intellects failing to see hark back to the Urst cajise : cry out against prohibition as the producer; let ,tbw~ from- Waitakj, under license, jstrengthen their sigllif ' Look out for the Eev. L. M. Isitt, on: Fnday, July 28fch, and Mrs Hariisou Lee ? yn iVidav, ,£ugu.st JUJth.,

The steamer Duke of Portlan will take 400 Government-assist^ emigrants to Queensland, thchu ing 150 single girls." While making a vehemei speech in the House of Common condemning the proposal to gr'ai £30,000 to Lord Kitchener, I Wallace, the inembei; for F4ii burgh East, was seized with a* t of apoplexy. He was takeri- 1 Westminster Hospital, and 'die shortly af terwards. A serious disturbance has o< curred at Belfast* A Kationalif procession passing through "'tß streets was stoned by a cro'wi A free fight followed, of such serious nature that the 'Rioti A< had to be read." Th^e cr^w; would not disperse, and the pplid .and military were obliged. A charge them. Thirty-two arrest were made. , -' % ) The steamer Paris, which weij ashore on the Manacles, has beei handed ever to the underwriter! Sir A. Milner and Presideii Kruger shook hands at the cbn elusion of the conference. Every thing is regarded as hopeful. '• Britain has notified the Tsung li-Yamen of the Pekin eyndi cate's pi'ojected railway - iron Honan mines to a point on~ l fhl Yangtze river, opp'fisit'e Hankii^g via Kaifong. The Yum en' resist the proposal, alleging that the lint will compete \wth the Luhasiji railway, promoted by the 'Rosso* Chinese bank. The allegation dt competition is considered' absurd, as the right to construct was fease(| on the Yamen's pledge givein t<| Sir C. Macdonald in September. < At the military tounamont^the New South Wales Laucers Band' somely grounded the men of the 2nd Life Guards who compete^ against them in wrestling"* od horseback. Lord Kitchener^a| present, and was acc6rded- a? ovation. 1 ' j . There is more- Hope thai the Peace Conference at" the Hagtuj will prove resultful since tli* question of disarmaiiient h'asJ bees practically abandoiied. l^ -, N The Queen has despat«Jied a cordial telegram to M. Loubet ox\ the occasion of the recent riotj and insults. ' r '- The Ametican forces havef 'Buf« fered severe reverses in, the, Phil« lipines. Of the troops ' uiid'ej Major-Generai Lawton, 500 :wef« wounded and prostrated by thl heat. They returned, to Manilla After a number of severe engagements with the Filipinos^ were obliged to burn art^lt©^ waggons, and destroy ammuaitios to prevent them falling" in.t<n^t|* hands of the' Filipinos. ■ ',"}*, >< Herr Richter, leader of tfte '-"Bdcialist Party in the Reicb4s|i i protests that ' the new M»]Sa| acquired from Spain iii the\^|^ 'iiic, are Worthless. " } '][ Cx)nnt Bulow, Mfßißke&Jty Foreign Affairs, has informed i&i R.eichstag that the acqwjstio^v^j the Spanish colonies wa« ipt^ti^ to round oft the possessions mts Pacific' and prevent bthers'ac|qu|| ing them. ' ' -,■' ' ' . f '^'' In connection with the i&esm troubles amongst the students;^ St. Petersburg, tJnivereifcyM^ other educational eatablishi«ij^|| the ' Czar while* ee:oWrmg^Jiii University authorities^ fojr Inoj maintainin gf bu fdcieii t (ionifyl ijpk the'studeiits, insisted'that|i||^ii>ordination, should i^p^gi^ej^lj suppressed, ' r °*»?r.>.X\-\ ", '*"•,% ** ">> ],' »*» *