TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4179, 30 July 1892, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

At a recent meeting of the South Australian Alliance a resolution was passed "That as the man Carter, now committed for trial for the murder of Edwards, had evidently been supplied with liquor while intoxicated, steps should be taken to meet out punishment to tho publican so offending,"

A Prohibited person being fined at Napier for drunkenness, both the ' Herald' and 1 Telegraph ' drew attention to how the law is broken in such cases, The' Herald' Bays: — " Judging by results tke issue of such orders seems a ghastly farce, fo r apparently a prohibited person ha s no difficulty whatever in obtaining a 8 much liquor as he wishes. If th e Bench and polico would make a special effort to alter this state of things, by endeavouring to discover in all such cases where tbe prohibited person obtained the liquor, the ovil would Boon cease.

Dr, Danford Thomas held an in* quest recently at the St, Pancras Coroner's Court, respecting the death of Margaret Hunter, aged forty, the wife of a cook, living at 4, Unionterrace, Camden Town, The evidence of the husband was to the effect that the deceased spent most of her time in bed, but whenever she got a chance she would go to the, public-house close by and generally came home with the assistance of the railings. On Thursday morning he sent his little girl in to her mother to ask if she would have some coffeo, and it was found she was dead, Dr, Forsythe, of Great Collegestreet, stated that when' he was called in ho found that death bad occurred several hours, A post-mor-tem examination showed that the abdomen was extended by a gallon and a-half of fluid, the liver was en± larged and cirrhosed, tlio spleen was enlarged and broken down, the kidneys were in an 'Advanced state of disease, ahd : t|ie heart was enlarged and covered with'fit; one vontiiqle being empty arid in the other b large clot of blood. The cause of dpatb wag syncope, accelerated by chronic alcoholism. The jury returned their verdict accordingly. ; ' •" V V V _ The story of how compensation to,

publioanß for loss of license was killed in the House (if Commons is thus given by an exchange:— 1 '• A. year or two ago the Conservative Government in England proposed to Parliament riisolu'ioiis in liivour of compensation for the loss of the license, which was practically the endowment and establishment of a legal vested interest in the license. The Liberal party, under Mr Gladstone, opposed this, and ap' puiltid lo tlio country. From John o'Groat's to Land's End the country was set on lire, and under I be pressure at'a widespread public opinion the Government were compelled to withdraw the restflminns. The key of the whole controversy lay in one word. The Government inserted 1 adequate' compensation. The Liberal party in the House substituted the word 1 equitable.' And it killed the whole scheme. Why? Because the word 'equitabla' raised the question as to who were the proper persons to be compensated when the trade was abolished. There were not only the publicans, but the brokenhearted wives, the noglecied children, and tlw owners of the wretched and desolated homes which strewed the path of this traffio,"

Tho Pall Mall Gazette of Friday last contained an appeal for help in the following Case" A olergytuan of the Church of England has given way to the terrible temptation of drinkHe is still youugand half his life is before him, He and his friends are not able to combat the evil unassisted, and his only earthly hope lies in tho control of an inebriate home, into which' he is willing to enter) wero funds only forthcoming, A year's treatment in such a home would cost £l5O, and would probably result in a euro—at all events, in the opinion of doctors and others who can judge of his condition, it would give him the be;-1 possible clwnce of recovering his lost will-power, The case presses, for after January. 10 all funds for his support will be exhausted, and his present shelter unavailable,"