Temperance Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 178, 20 July 1901, Page 3

Temperance Items.

[anVEUTfSEIIENT.] (Published bv arrangement.) LIQUOK IX THE K.ISO CoUNTKV When the Government, were buying rabbit-skins from the natives they made it a necessity for them to travel from; Otorohanga and other centr-s in the' prohibited area to. Kid Ki hi,. just over ■he border, where two hotels did a very lucrative business, in order to dispose of J the-rabbit-skins. The result is obvious. Of course, the cry is that whereprohibition U enforced there is mo e drunkenness than where a license is granted; butwhere the natives are invited by a Government depar;ment right into a licensed centre iu order to be paid money for their labour it looks very much as if the moral ft d physical interest* of those natives is of fio consideration. The | native race is fast being “ improved ” off the face of the earth, mainly through h-, wiles and devices of those who should have acted as their guide ph Jo-, a,,,,her and f ieud, and if necessary -dionld have assist-fd to -aaVo them from thcmselve-', instead of hiring them t> d-stmetion.— Wflirarapa Daily Times, Mav 2nd, . . . . Wo h -ve ho meins of knowing tne ntontions of the Government with regard to licensing matters W« only know tint . he master mind of the i labinet is intent on experimenting with i he problem of Kt «te control, and regards the Maoris as'fair game for tha experiment. There are also very clear indicaip.ns that an effort will be made to foron through the House one of the most mischievous and undemoc;at ; c of the , proposals made in the Licensing Bill of last session.—Prohibitionist, June Ist.

Licensi -o Laws. ! Petitions numbering more than fifty' from all over tne colony were presented f this afternoon protesting against the | legalising oif the sale of liquor in the . fffng Country, and urging Parliament to reioct various proposals enumerated in the Licensing Bill brought down last session.—Otago Daily Times, July,-1901. John G. Woou.ey. . A few years ago one of the leading magazines paid him the following ti inute •‘The days of miracles are nob yet passed, and this linn with tongue of fire, called of God. as truly ks was. ever p ophet of_o d, is a living proof of the fact.” ■. ■ - Mr Woolley is » firm believer .m- the ultimate triumph of political rignteousftess, tbfc the agency of an arbuß< a Christian citizenship. He is Said to have received higher fees . than soy. other lawyejf In Minneßota. having once heeo paid 500 dollars (£100) ia gold, for a spdeob of five minutes.in a successful idea for mercy ior-acon vie ted caitai rad.