Temperance Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 166, 15 February 1902, Page 1

Temperance Items.

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{Published by arrangement.)

The Waimate Temperance Reforms Union held the first series of monthly meetings 0 n Thursday evening in the Knox Church Hull. There was a fair attendarao, Mr G. H. Graham occupying the chair. The musical part of the programme consisted of two choruses by the choir lei by MrC Manchester, two very pleasingly quartettes by Misses Strong, Cordnar and liu.sall and Mr F Bussell, a duet by Mi bos (.orduer and Btronq, and solos by Mia Mo!risen and Mias V\ iliams making altogether quite an enjoyable evening’s music. The speaker of the evening was the Fov. Carlisle who for half an hour apols; with point and energy upon the present aspect of the total abstinence and prohibition cause. At the close of the address and at % suggestion from the spesker the Rev. A. 8. Morrison moved and it was renolveS that the secretary of the Union write conveying the deepest sympathy of the meeting to the widow and family of the late Rev. T. J. Wills, Vicar of Ormondville and expressing the great loss sustained by (Ha Temperance party throughout the colony by tue death of sojearnost, capable and self sacrificing a work* for righteousness. A vote of thanks to the speaker anS choir concluded the meeting.

Heard at the meeting.—

‘ There is a great talk of a water supply for Waimate but if tba money spent ia iu strong drink in Waimate for three years were given to me I would place a pipe of water ia every house in tho town.’ ‘I believe that every church member should bo a total abstainer and an oa* a ad out prohibitionist.’ ‘ I dout see why it should take one and a half prohibitionists to outvote an old swiper who hag to get a prohibitionist t« help him home. ‘ The public houses in Waimate arr» oyea because the people iu this electorate gave them liosuce.’ ‘jl know a man not twenty miles from hero who does all he can to induce h>e boy to drink beer.’ ‘The arro.tg for drunkenness in Waimate have neatly trebled in the last two years.’ ‘ We have been eager to send men to participate in tie war in South Africa ; may wo with equal ardour enter into the fight agxinut this greater enemy iu our own colony—strong drink.'