TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3812, 16 May 1891, Page 2

TEMPERANCE NOTES.

PROHIBITION. In the recent Canadian electionsthe Prohibition vote in Halifax increased 66 per cent, while the Conservative vote increased but 5 per cent arid the Liberal yote Fell off. PULPIT ABSTAINERS.; v - Rev Charles Garrett states that Liverpool has improved socially and Morally faring the" past 20 years. So far-as he is aware, formist pulpit in that city is occupied :by an abstainer ~\ OPEN-AUItaEEVICES. . The temperance party in Melbourne are holding open-air services. Ladies are addressmg-some ofsthe meetings in Victoria;^"-Mr., Whitehead, of Manchester, the-jong> lecturer, ,is drawing crowded houses in Melbourne. He is credited with being an enthusiastic temperance advooate. ;f\ NO LICENSE GAINS IN MASSACHUSETTS. Of the 21 towns m Maa3achussettß reporting on the license question/only one,. y,ptsd-for.aljc,enSe, the majority being'2s, agafrist a'nmiority. of 68 last year. Cottage City, Eastern. Edgar'town" J '/Lynfieldv Plymouth,' Merrimac, West Bridgiswgter, Hanson', Mashpee.^bummington 7 , Leyden, Monterey* Eeru,. Bowe, ? Somerset, Gpsnold mi Salisburyremain-inthe no license column. North' Attleborp' voted •|no"fpr;tlie §rstjiin)eihihre.e; years,overcbinifrg t i-SSionty*' : 'bf i '"TOo' recorded "for" license" last year,while Peabody changed the license 'majority of 58 in 1890 to a no license njajority ofG7.

TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN HIGH LIPK. ' Lady Maqdonald, wife of the Premier of Canada, is, an old abstainer. Another lady of high position met her at dinner one day, aud. was surprised to see_ that she took no wine, and at length asked, "Did'jnot you set ont wine when you entertained the Marquis of .Lprne.?'' "Never!" was the prompt reply. "But did you not feel that you must, apologise?" "Certainly not; wine is not a natural beverage, and so should rather come in than go out with apology.". This . answer, and that example, led the other high lady) to become an abstainer also. AMERICA' STILL LEADINGi

The fifty-first Congress jpf ;the United States pf America..' has just concluded, Although many measures touching upon various phases of the liquor question'were introduced three; only of national importance were passed by Congress. These may be briefly enumerated as first: The "Original Package'' bill allowing states to prohibit.the sale of liquor shipped lntoVjthenr .hv; for'ginar. packages," and sold under Govern •ment sancciop ip jof'thej state laws ; second, the bjll prohibiting the sale of,-intoxicating liquors in. army canteens, located in prohibition states. The remaining'act vas. the law prohibiting theopening of saloons within, one -mile-iof th 3 Soldiers' Some in the district of Columbia, It is estimated'tha't' t.hi 3 last measure establishes absolute; prohibition over between 40 a^d.'§Cl squares in the city of Washington.