TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4308, 31 December 1892, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

■ facts tm mm. . The associated brewers of Great Britain are said to have subscribed §500,000 for the protection of their trade at tbe recent parliamentary election. , .. The amount of beer and spirits consumed per oapita in England in 1891 was sixteen gallons. In 1840 the umount per capita was four gallone, ' ' , The consumption of beer in Germany amounted to 1,114,000,000 gallons in the vear of 1891-2. against 909,000,000 gallons in 1866, an inoreaßo of 17 per cent,, while the population has increased only four por cent. , An active Christian worker in the slums, when asM how he decided where was the bent place to looai" his . mission, promptly repiivd:" By the smell. Where wliiky smells stroncest, • there is the most need' ot mission work." The rapid growth of the habit of sobriety aud temperance is one. oi the characteristics of the American railway service, the use of intoxican'B becoming more and more tho exception, although it is said to be the rule in tho English service. It was a subject for comment iu an English railway publication recently that tbn 5,000 labourers who were employed in ohanging the grade of tho Great Western railway were not allowed to refresh themselves during working hours with anything stronger than oatmeal water. Advices have recently been received at thf headquarters of the Whim'a Temperauoe Union in Chicago to tL>effect that Queen Liliuokalani of the Hawaiian Islands haß become a convert to tbe temperance cause. She not only pays the license imposed on the temperance coffee house which the union has opened in her city, but she has also banished spirituous liquors of all kinds from her table and does not allow them to be served at her state receptions. She has also contributed to the cause of morality in the islands by prohibiting tbe public performance ot a certain native dance which was formerly very popular with her subjects,