TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4203, 27 August 1892, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Mr Justice Vaughan Williami, at

the recent Chester Winter Assizes (in (passing sentence on a prisoner infor perjury at Sale, where he had sworn that he had nothing hut water to drink on a certain day, and that he was not refused drink at th'o Carters' Arms, nor ordered to leave), Bflid that while admitting that a drunken man might forget what had happened during his potations, he would not allow that the drunker a man got the less likely was he to

know afterwards that he bad been drunk. A man got very drunk, forgot what had happened, but woke up in a ditch in tho middle oi tbo night and iwked bimEeif, "Why am .1 here?" Probably it would occur to him, "Beoauae .1 was too drunk lo go home," But, after all, wheu he arrirtd at the conclusion tbat bo was there because ho must bavo been too drunk to get home, or that he must have been drunk because bo had a bad headacbo which he could not other* wise account for, if he then swore that he was not drunk he was not swearing to a matter of fact, but to a matter of He declined to draw a inference ftem tho condition in which be found himself when ho came to bis senses,

Elizabeth Graham madober thirtyninth appearance for dronkeooflsi before the Sheffield magistrates on New Year's Day. Asked by I magistrate, whether she had not beet continually getting drunk since 187 n she said "I don't know, I dont keep any memorandum. If you don't want people to get drunk, why do yon give licenses to 'brewers? I work bard for my money, I please myßolf and spend it." She was now fined £2, including costs, and being unable to pay, went to prison for a month,

Jliss Jda. Robbins, of Ohio, who attppded tho anuual ineeijntjs of the British Women's Temperance Associ* atioD in May, and Imb spent the summer in ContiDCUlol travelling, com« menting on the widely-Bproad notion «that water on the Continent it unwholesome for drinking, writes: " I me so far tested the water of England, Scotland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy without experiencing the least inconvenience; indeed, I am steadily gaining in avoirdupois, audhave not yet found the shadow of all o'xcuse for abandoning the good water (hat is everywhere on the tables, arid of whiph the wine-drinkers tlicraselves frequently partake." i'i •'• At the Penzance Quarter Sessions, October 20tb, a woman was pbargeJ with ■ stabbing, Tjip Recorder, for jinglake, in prpsepting the case to the jury, commented on the absence of motive, and said that bo could only account for the prisoner's conduct on

tho liypotheaia that blio was drunL It was uot necessary for him to remind the jury that drunkenness was absolutely no excuso for crime, It was the greatest promoter of crime in this country, hi) know, and if there was no drunkenness we should ho able to (jot rid of half the gaols, and to dismiss half tho warders.

The Government of tho United States has often been acoused of want of sufficient care for the welfaroof the Indians within its limits. Tho following extract from tho Morning Star (Boston) Booms to show that it is looking aftor the interests of the Indians in ouo particular, and also that ferment d liquors, as well as ardent spirits, are placed uudor ban:— The Indian Office has rovokcd.ihe license of fourptraders in Indian Territory, on account of their selling boor, and it revokes tho licenso of overy trader who engages iu tho traffic; and, besides, their bondsmen will bo sued for violation of tho prescribed regulations. The department is fully determined that beer shall not be sold in the territory.

Here is a shameful thing. The Eev, H. C. Mellon, curate of Hoveringham applied at the Southwell Pnlico Court

the other day for an extension of hours until midnight on the 22nd of Uctohor, for a paroohial party and dance in tho Eeindeer beerhouse. We are also sorry to say that the application was granted, Was there no schoolroom or other placo available ihut a bferbouso must be applied for ? Better not havo had tho paiochial revel at all than have hod it so.