Temperance Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 181, 27 July 1901, Page 4

Temperance Items.

(Published by arrangement.) I EXTRACTS PROM A DAILY PAPER. Are the Yodeg Safe? | Two l ids under nineteen years of age I appeared at the Gisborne | Court the other day charged with | drunkenness, one being further charge I \ With disorderly conduct, for which he received a sentence of four days’ ini- s prison ment with hard labour. X j Abe the Old Safe? In the New Plymouth Police Cdtirt J the other day a prohibition order wab issued against a lady seventy-eight years -i of age, the order to take effect in the i Kgmont and Taranaki districts. i Abe the Maoris Safe? i

The Hawera Star reports that a special meeting of Maoris was held at Weriwai'i Pa la'st week, natives all settlements in the district being present. A resolution was carried against the supply of beer and spirits to Mrori tangis in the Hawera district. A move'will be taken to extend the reform to other pla’ek between the White Cliffs and Waiilotara. Are the Protected (?) Victims Safe? A man named David Stewart wafe fined £lO (the full penalty), with 11s costs, by Mr McCarthy, S.M., at Inveroargi l on Monday, on a charge Of p-o'. Cor : ng liquor for a prohibited person naiiitid Mayhew, a month being allowed to pay. M.yhew was fined £)5, with 7 s cents, on a chirge of counselling S'ewart to procure liquor. Are Those in High Places Safe? Shortly before the House met the other day a well-known member of Parliament was to be seen walking up and down in the Chamber gesticula'ing, and eveiy now and then threatening to “ shoot anyone who eat in his chair.” The conduct of the same member during afternoon sitting of the House, wh le not perhaps quite overstepping the b) inds of Parliament try order, was such as to occasion considerable comment.

Who is Safe ? The total abstainer. Who would Place all in Safety ? The Prohibitionist. J G. WOOLLEY’S PLAIN SPEECH. General Grant said: “ There is a moment in every battle w en the fi. ■ j advance means Victory.” Th» Kittle royal of the centuries is 6n. The Church that never lost a fight with wronrr, > r ever ’succeeded in a stratagem aga>n'-t----it, faces the saloon upon the fairest fi i aud the fairest terms the universe cjutd. fu; n>sh, the ballot-box of a republic where, by Divine right, the people rub'. The voice of the “ trimmer ” is heird in the Gnu eh and the State saying, “ Let the saloon alone one more campaign, an>t I6t me lead you round about the good by stealth and the aid of enem e-. ’ Away with “ trimmers,” great or small 1 Cowards to'the rear! GUI in the pickets I Close ranks! Guide centre! Forwa-d, with this new battle-cry, ‘‘The Chouch for Christ ! ”