TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4215, 10 September 1892, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

A conviction was recently obtained for of the licensing law discovered a quarter of a mile off by a policeman through the use of a telescope. Merthyr Tydvil is fortunate in possessing an official bo fertile in resource. It ia to be feared that too man; of his brethren look the other way at such things, and too often "paBS by on the other Bide,"

The Hector of Hanley pays it iB time the Church awoke to the ravages of the drink fiend; In that district there waa one drinking shop to every thirty houses, and Christian men should go to the magistrates and have this state of things altered, • ■ i*i

Alter hearing a Temperance lecture, the lata P. T. Barnum had

a night of anxious thought, which led, to his knocking off the heads of his champagne bottles on rising the following morning. His next step was to sign the teetotal pledge; this led to twenty others doing the Baroe on the morning of Barnum's decision, Bubwjuently his Temperance addresses and personal influence did very much for the cause, and gained many adherents among the people he was connected with during his travels.

The Duke of Bedford 'has granted the ase of a room for the promotion •of Temperanca asd Band of Hope meetings at Willington, Bedford,

Sir Harry Verney, Bart., recently threw open his mansion, park and gardens to- the Good Templars in North Bucks, and besides making a forcible speech, received the large company in a most hospitable way.

A case of poisoning by gas fames is reported from Higher Ince, Wigan, the rictim being Miohael Drndy, aged 80, a labourer employed at the blast furnaces of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, Drudy went on duty at six o'clock on Friday night. At nine

he yum to hia supper, returning to tin dmos an hour latqr. At this hour „ bo was considered by tho foreman to be too much under the influence of drink to adequately perform his work. He was therefore sent away, and mother man Appointed to lus post. Instead of going home, Drudy lay down beside one of the stovea from which fumes of gas escape and at two on Saturday morning be wai found dead.