Mr Woolley.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 200, 8 May 1902, Page 3

Mr Woolley.

A letter having been published in Dunedin from Canada, in wbicb attention was drawn to the proJloer views of Mr J. G, Woolley, a probibition lecturer, as set out in the paper the •' New Voice," owned and edited by him in Chicago, and to this being the same man who is engaged to lecture throughout New Zealand. A meeting of the United Temperance Befarrn Council was hold to-night, when it was resolved that this meeting disclaims auy sympathy with pro-Boer sentiments ; it instructs its secretary to communicate immediately with the New Zealand Alliance to ascertain if the statements attributed to Mr Wooley are correct, and in event of their being as repretented, imperatively demands that the Alliance oancel tho engagement with Mr Woolley.

Whllington, May 6

At a meeting of tho New Zealand Alliance this e v ening, the following resolution was adopted:—"'Thathaving read of the attack made upon Mr J. G. Wooley by a Toronto correspondent in several New Zualand papers, and having carefully examined the articles in Mr Woolley's paper upon which the attack professes >a by based, tho executive of tho Alliance has no hesitation in saying lh:ic die letter in question is •, i'-uv.ctcmed by gross garbling and misrepresentation, and thai the charge of anti-British sontimenfc and h'.-sthiiy to the British Empire which is brought against Mr Woolley is nov- only without foundation, but positively ; :bo reverse of the fact."