TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4154, 2 July 1892, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Lord Salisbury, in 1888, received an official report on Liquor Legislation in the Slates, drawn up by officials who daily saw tho law in operation, and who wrote from results of personal observation and enquiry, undor tho eye of our Foreign Ambassador—and in reference to Maine, the report etutedlndustry has made great advances in the state. The

drink traffic has been reduced to l«2oth of its former proportions, and twelve million dollars are saved annually from the drink bill. Taxation had decreased considerably. Savings banks are very prosperous depositors in a Stato containing a total population of only 650,000,

An application was recently made byagontlcmantooue of the largest London workhouses for a sober woman as a domestic servant. Tho answer 'of tho matron was to tho effect that ! amongst the 400 'cranio inmates there was not a sober woman to be feund. And it appears that the governor of, the samo institution nllirmed that thero was not a sobor man among tbd 500 malo inmates. There was not even the exception which he said wont to prove the rule,

New Zealanders aro really <ho most abstomious people in the civilised world. The drink bill of the colony

is £8 4s Gd per heed, against £6 per head of Victoria. A Melbourne toraporance journal points out that were the drink bill of Victoria brought down to the same level as that of New Zealand, at least three million pounds inoro would be available yearly for providing work for the unemployed, Apart from tbe happy results attending the labors of the advocates of the cause of temperance, tho climate is so good that stimulants of any kind are almost unnecessary. This is proved by the hot that the young men born in the colony soldom drink spirits,

The cause of temperance in the army is making satisfactory progress in India. Ten years ago it was stated that there were in tho ranks of tho British Army then stationed in our Eastern Empire some 10,000 abstainers from intoxicating drinks. This number has now increased to 17,500 ; and the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusilisers liar no fewer than 5115 total abstainers in its ranks, which is a larger number of temperance man than in any othor regiment in the east,